How many times have you promised yourself to lose weight — only to break that promise?
And how did it make you feel to break your word with yourself?
A colleague, Matthew Cossolotto, author of the new ebook “The Power of Making a Promise: Make A Promise. Keep Your Word. Change Your Life,” recently commented on a line in the 2010 movie, The Karate Kid.
In that movie, one of the young characters promises to attend the main character’s Kung Fu tournament, but her father forbids it. He later relents when he learns that she made a promise, saying, “In our family, we don’t break promises.”
How seriously do you take your promises? Do you make those promises lightly? Do you keep promises with others but not with yourself?
Cossolotto points out that a real promise leaves no room for failure. It’s about true commitment, like in a real marriage. It’s about keeping your word with yourself. I will quote what Matthew says about turning mere “goals” into promises:
“A promise is like a goal on steroids. It’s a powerful way to get unstuck, to break free from disempowering habits and mindsets and jumpstart your personal change journey.”
Real commitment to losing weight means following through, no matter what. It means caring more about yourself than about the fleeting pleasure of a cupcake in the middle of the afternoon or a bag of chips in the evening.
And the great thing is that it isn’t that hard. The force of the commitment itself overpowers lower urges, especially if you couple it with deciding to eat only healthy food in proper proportions so that you body isn’t crying for nutrition, which it will if you eat junk.
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