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THREE RULES, TWO PROBLEMS
Tuesday Aug. 27, 2019
Did you ever make promises?
No matter what age we’ve been, we’ve made them. Some were promises, some called vows. Many made to others. Too few made to ourselves.
Good that I never recorded every promise I’ve made; that list would be long. The number not kept, embarrassing, too revealing and far more than humbling?
To say nothing about how keeping promises and fulfilling commitments can really eat up so much of our day, our schedules and other commitments.
These three rules help:
- Make fewer promises
- Make more to myself than to others
- Keep them
Seems easy. In theory, yes.
When I dissect my record – history of successes, stumbles and failings; two recurring problems:
- not having a Plan B when I needed one
- making unrealistic promises when I didn’t need to
Reader feedback:
Amazingly more people than we could think are depressed or at the very least very unhappy. Culture has made us proud to ask for help, but when you are desperate enough, tired enough, week enough and decide to finally reach out the price to pay is higher than the help provided, the judgment, the opinions, the many ways we should have reacted or done differently; last time I was here, I actually sarcastically asked " don’t you think I have thought of that myself?" so... good help is hard to find, better soldier on, on our own; aim for more good days than bad and just accept humbly that we are just experience life and we must go on. Saludos desde el caluroso Cancún, AG
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