Let’s talk about resolutions. Who hasn’t failed to follow through on a New Year’s Resolution? Failure is almost part of the ritual! (Which is why I don’t subscribe to that kind of resolution any more.) But more often than we realize, we also fail to follow through on the everyday resolutions that we make, and this behavior can insidiously erode our self confidence.

How often do you promise yourself to go to the gym and then bag it? Plan to wake up early, only to hit the snooze repeatedly? Resolve to fix that cabinet door over the weekend, then live with it for months?

In The Speed of Trust, Stephen M.R. Covey talks about self trust as a basis enabling others to trust us. If we regularly let ourselves down in little ways, our overall confidence is diminished. Habitually breaking our promises to ourselves, even in these small ways, we are not living in complete integrity and this incongruence comes through in our presence to other people. We aren’t as confident as we could be.

Examine your daily life for the small ways in which you let yourself down. Mine include failure to keep promises to myself to: start a walking routine, wash the windows, finish painting the baseboards, eat healthier, get up earlier, sew on that button… eee gad! I have a lot of work to do!

So what do you think? Can you trust yourself?

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