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to be better, you must keep the promises you make to yourself
Why that matters
There is a place that exists between you and the version of you that you dream of.
Some of that space is made up of real things, some of it is make-belief.
The gap between you and the version of you that you admire, dream of, and wish for is true and untrue.
Some of it exists, a gap you can actually close, and some of it does not. Never will you be the perfect version of you, even with all the will in the world, we are irrational beings that will always fail, we are flawed.
But amongst all that lies a huge opportunity.
Because it’s easier than you think to step between you and the version of you that you admire most. And it starts with a promise.
In 2016, I was fresh out of University, ready to start a graduate job and full of hope. 3 months later, that hope promptly faded, and I realised this was my reality.
That sharp decline into the real world made me one thing — impatient to get out.
This couldn’t be my life.
So I tried everything to get out as fast as I could. Short-term, short-sighted, one-week maximum endeavours that always made me worse off. I was building from a place of…
