Promises! Don't let em go bad!

What promises do we make and what promises do we keep? What kind of people are we if we constantly break the promises we make to others? What about the promises we make to ourselves?
I find myself telling people things all the time and not following through. I don’t believe I intend to let people down but I end up doing it anyway. I did it to myself everyday for thirty years, If I cant keep my word to me, how can I keep it to you?
One thing I have learned on my Journey is that the harder I work on my spirit my mind and my body, the stronger and more focused I become. I am more able to do the things I promise my daughter that I will do, I become more able to take care of the details of my life that I used to let fall behind. Even simple things like washing dishes and cutting grass are no longer a dreaded routine, but an exciting part of my day, ok exciting was the wrong word but you get my point.
The ability to keep my promises and to do the ‘little’ things I used to put off is making me focus more also on my future and is making me think bigger more independent thoughts. There are BIG decisions concerning career and retirement and the possibility of more family in the future (before I am too old) to be made. I don’t need to continually ask, what should I do and why and how. I now tell myself, “Let’s do it” and “this is the right direction for you”. I still love getting advice from friends and boy do I ever ask them for it too! I am now more apt, though, to follow my own agenda, my own heart and my own fairly intelligent mind.
This walk I am taking down the roads of my life (I am becoming a cliché) is changing me in ways I never would have guessed, never would have imagined and is going to end up taking me places I have never dreamed I would go.
I am excited right now because there are MANY different paths my life is taking me in, and the only ones I refuse to go down…are the ones that are behind me!
Have a great Sunday and look for more posts soon!!!
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