Honor your commitments to yourself and others, Ep25

Do you honor your commitments to yourself and others every time you make them? Have you stopped the blaming, complaining, criticizing, and gossiping? Being impeccable with your words means you live a life of integrity & your words/actions are honorable.

The first agreement is to be impeccable with your word. It sounds simple enough, but it is definitely not.

You can’t control every circumstance. But you can control how you react to it.

• A sin (or error) is anything and everything you believe, say, or feel which goes against yourself.
  
  • You go against yourself when you criticize, complain, blame, or judge yourself, others, or anything in the world.
• Being without sin is exactly the opposite.

When you are impeccable, you take responsibility for your actions, and you do not criticize, complain, blame, or judge yourself, nor do we indulge in guilt or shame.

We do not use our words against others in blaming, criticizing, or gossiping.

We honor our commitments and only make those we intend to follow through on. Most importantly the commitments we make to ourselves.

Do you honor your commitments?

• When you say you’re going to do something, do you really intend to follow through and then actually do it?
  • Do you say YES to every request, invitation, or ask because you think you need to, you're a people pleaser and you figure you can flake, make an excuse, or not show up when the time to follow through arrives?

When you tell yourself you are going to do something: workout, lose weight, go to a meeting, do you do it or do you rationalize an excuse to yourself so you can release the commitment without feeling guilty?

How to be imbeccable with your words by activvely listening to yourself and others.

1. Actively listen. (Try the eye, eye, nose, mouth loop if you get distracted.)
2. Take at least 5-10 seconds to truly pause and think about what the person has said before responding.
3. Choose your words slowly and carefully.
4. Practise using phrases to show people you are actively listening
   • that's interesting, I'm curious about that tell me more, what did you do then, that's awesome, that's cool, fantastic, tell me more.

5. Use words that are familiar and comfortable to you, not words to impress people.

6. Think of your words as a commitment, a contract - and honor them. Every time.

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