Having credibility with yourself is the cornerstone of discipline and happiness.
Is credibility with anyone else more important?
If you have all the credibility in the world with your coworkers, family and friends, but constantly short change yourself and your own wants and needs who wins?
Compare taking care of yourself, not just physically but mentally, to care for your car.
If you forego regular maintenance, nothing will happen, until something terrible happens.
You wont see anything wrong with your car until your engine seizes from not getting your oil changed, or you slide off of a road in a rain storm because your tires are bald.
Telling yourself you’re going to do things, and not doing them is similar in that in the short term nothing major goes wrong.
Until something terribly goes wrong. One day you wake up and realize that the things you tell yourself to do, mean nothing.
Instructions that have gone unheeded for so long that they are now officially meaningless.
And you don’t even believe your own bullshit.
Regaining credibility can start absurdly small. One Pushup. One Phone Call.
To clean up your office, file one paper.
Many get stuck on projects because they are too big. Make them embarrassingly small. And let the build.
Set yourself up for success. Do the little things that make a big difference in how you see yourself.
And do them for you.
In the end everyone wins.
And if there is someone that is harmed by that… Let them go.
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