Small steps and affirmations can gradually transform your behaviors and help rebuild your trust in yourself
One of the side effects of a lack of self-discipline is losing faith in yourself. Like water wearing away at a stone, each unmet commitment erodes your sense of trust in yourself. It goes beyond diets you can’t stick to and bedtime routines you don’t keep to; this sense of despair becomes all-encompassing. You start to see yourself as unreliable, consistently unable to depend on your own word.
Changing this pattern seems impossible. Embarking on a self-improvement program that you know you won’t stick to will further undermine your self-belief.
To break that patten, think small. Then think smaller.
Consider the many daily actions that you typically do with some consistency. Do you floss your teeth, put your plate in the sink after eating, turn off the lights when you exit a room? Do you wish each family member a nice day when they leave, or daven before your first coffee?
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