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How to Keep a Promise You Made to Yourself | Jim Rohn Motivation
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- Sep 13, 2026
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I'd be willing to bet that somewhere along the way, you broke it. Not because you're a bad person. Not because you lack character. But because the promise you made to yourself is the one promise in your life that has no witness, no contract, no consequence you can see. And so you let it slide.If you gave your word to a business partner, you'd move heaven and earth to deliver. You'd stay up late. You'd cancel plans. Because someone was watching, and there was a cost to failing. But when the promise is to yourself, all of that evaporates. There's no partner waiting. And so the promise to yourself becomes the most breakable promise you own.Here is the truth: the reason you can't keep promises to yourself isn't a willpower problem or a motivation problem. It's a trust problem. And trust is the whole game.This seminar walks through the things you must understand about keeping your word to the one person who has to live with the results — you.CHAPTERS0:00 Intro — the promise with no witness3:02 The trust problem underneath every broken word5:03 Why the trust got broken in the first place5:56 #1 — Make promises small enough to keep8:47 #2 — Make promises specific enough to measure11:52 #3 — Don't renegotiate in the moment of inconvenience16:20 #4 — Kill the "I'll make up for it later" excuse18:00 #5 — Keep the promise independent of how you feel20:33 The reward: earned self-respect23:00 Why hard days count doubleWHY YOUR OWN WORD BECOMES THE CHEAPEST WORD YOU OWNA self-promise is a moment where you looked at your life and cast a vote for a better version of yourself. Every time you break it, you vote against the person you said you wanted to be. "I only let myself down" is one of the most dangerous phrases in the human vocabulary, because it treats your word to yourself as wo…