Keeping commitments

I want to talk for a minute about the power of keeping commitments to yourself. Recently I’ve decided to change up my morning routine. For the longest time I would wake up and grab my phone and jump right back into social media. I’d spend a good chunk of my day scrolling between taking care of my kids. But for the past couple weeks I’ve decided I’m done with that. Instead I get up and I read my scriptures, write a little in my journal, and exercise. It’s made the biggest difference in my day. I get so much more done and I’m able to focus so much more on my family and much less on what doesn’t matter. But here’s the thing, I don’t say any of this to make anyone feel like they’re doing it wrong. I want you to know that there have been several days where I haven’t wanted to follow through with this new routine. I’ve wanted to just tune everything out and go back to my old “comfortable” ways. But instead of doing that I chose to keep the commitment I’ve made to myself. I remind myself how much better I feel when I take care of me first. When I do the necessary things on purpose. Even when I don’t want to. Even as I type this post my main objective is fulfilling a commitment I made to myself to post at least once a week. It’s now 10:30 at night and we lose an hour tomorrow for day light savings. Most of you who know me know that I don’t go to bed late. Ever. But I made the commitment so I’m trying my best to follow through because it’s an important skill that I’m trying to develop. So next time you say you’ll do something and it turns out you really don’t want to... do it anyway. You’ll be glad you did.