The more experience I’ve had, both personally and professionally, the more convinced I have become of the importance of making and keeping commitments to ourselves. These can be big commitments, like my great-grandfather’s, or they can be small commitments, even very small commitments, such as getting up when the alarm clock goes off, not overeating, or speaking respectfully to others, even when provoked to do otherwise. Every time we make and keep a commitment to ourselves—large or small—we increase our self-confidence. We build our reserves. We enlarge our capacity to make and keep greater
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