Na you dey keep the promise wey you make to yourself

You no go break promise wey you make to person wey you respect, but you dey break the one wey you make to yourself almost every week without even notice am. E good make you sidon think am small this morning. The room quiet. Day still full ahead, plenty room dey inside am. The gap between the two standard na the whole matter wey we dey talk about here.

A notebook open for one page wey get list, half of am never finish. Pen wey no get cap. Birds dey outside dey busy body for nothing sake. The clock for oven, e dey wrong by nine minutes, as e dey always be.

Every promise wey you break to yourself na small deposit wey enter wrong account. E go look like say e no cost anything because nobody see am, and na that one make e dey pile up: na only you dey the agreement and na only you dey keep score, so nothing from outside go ever correct am. The reason wey e matter na say self trust dey build the same way any other trust dey build, from record of promise wey you keep, and that mean say person wey dey always disappoint imself go soon stop to believe im own plans. E no be just mood. Na correct reading of real history.

Look the size of wetin you don dey promise. You don dey make commitment wey even person wey don rest well no go fit meet, then you go read the failure as judgement on your character instead of judgement on the size of the promise. E no be discipline problem wey dey wear discipline cloth; na scoping problem, and scoping dey easy to fix. Promise something wey small reach say to keep am near certain, and within one week the ledger go start to turn the other way.

So today, make one promise and keep am. Make e small well well, on purpose. Ten minutes of something, one message wey you send, one surface wey you clear. Tell yourself for morning and do am before day end, make the record show say you keep one.

One small one no go change anything by imself, but na the only way the ledger fit ever turn around. The account don dey overdrawn small time now. Open am again today, make e dey build quiet quiet.