  I don't make promises to other people frequently. I know life is unpredictable and I don't want to let people down.
Every day I plan 26 hours worth of stuff to do so something is going to get bumped. So when my kidlets say "do you promise, Mommy", I say, "no but I'll try really hard". When I make a promise. My word is on the line. If I promise to be there. I'll be there (of course, if you know me, you know I might be a couple minutes late).
Why is it then, that promises to myself are taken so much more lightly? I have promised myself so many things: to get away from my desk at lunch to clean out my closet to take a pottery class to take time for myself to work fewer hours to plan a tropical vacation I have even started with the big words-- I, Mandy Kolesik, do solemnly swear that I will... Didn't work. OK. That's it. I promise to keep more promises to myself. ;) 
