🤞 Keeping promises to yourself
Why amalgamation didn't publish this week & how that's reaffirmed a promise I made to myself
Readers,
We all set goals, standards, and tell ourselves that we’ll hold ourselves true to a promise we make in the present moment.
Until we don’t.
Some of you might even “pinky swear” (😳) with yourself, and you still fail at it, but the truth in this is -
It happens, it’s natural, and learning to reorganize your current circumstances to meet those commitments or to pivot away are just as important as making sure to make the right commitments in the first place.
This week, I had the realization that the work I was constructing wasn’t my top stuff.
I’ve been experimenting with different writing styles, topics, etc. to see what works - and while that’s still the case - the content I was planning on putting forth this week simply didn’t live up to the type of content that I’ve promised to myself I would create.
That’s why I nixed what I was working on - I refused to and continue to refuse to publish anything that I feel “Isn’t me” or doesn’t engage the side of me that wanted to delve deeper into research, creative writing, and being process-oriented.
Though, stepping back from this allowed me to realize that this conflict was the perfect topic to write about in the Personal Development section of amalgamation - an important but often neglected bit of the broader newsletter.
Next week, I’ll be back and better than ever with renewed motivation, fresh ideas, and a concrete sense of why I continue to do what I do on Substack.
To uphold my initiative to provide direct value to you as my Readers, here are three interesting things I’ve picked up so far this week:
🫵 The harder you push towards something, the more it pushes back
🛑 At some point, just stop for a second to acknowledge those things you’ve already learned instead of seeking to learn more. You’d be surprised how much more you get out of going deeper instead of covering more.
💡 Barring any special circumstances, the more you learn about health, the more you realize that covering your major bases (i.e., exercise, nutrition, sleep) get you 95% of the way there. Most everything else is squeezing the lemon.
I want to end with a prompt for you as my readers to answer and engage with:
What is one area in your life where you consistently keep a promise that you made to yourself?
I’m eager to learn how we are all similar, yet different, in those things that we hold ourselves to day in and day out.
In learning,
