Coaching practices for Keep Your Promises Trust

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Does this sound like the set of challenges you might be facing?

• In the moment I love making the big enthusiastic promise
• I say "I’ll send that over" or "I’ll get to it" and then a bunch of those little things quietly slip my mind
• To smooth things over I say "sounds good," "I’m fine with it," "I understand" when none of it is actually true
• I’m always making plans with myself and breaking them, and somewhere along the way I stopped trusting my own word
• I keep everything at work behind a polished, guarded front

Practices that may help

1. Build reliability by making smaller, keepable promises
   Under-promise consistently, then exceed rather than over-promise and fall short.
   The Trust Triangle
2. Build reliability through small, visible commitments
   Reliability is built not by big promises but by flawlessly keeping small, everyday ones.
   The Trust Equation, Made Practical
3. Build sincerity by saying only what you mean
   Only make commitments and assertions you actually believe — and retract the ones you don’t.
   The Trust Triangle
4. Confidence from keeping promises to yourself
   Reliably showing up builds self-trust independent of how any session goes.
   Strength Training for Confidence
5. Lower your guard to raise the intimacy score
   Sharing something real about yourself makes others feel safer sharing something real with you.
   The Trust Equation, Made Practical
6. Demonstrate care through visible acts in the other person’s interest
   Show that your interests and theirs are genuinely aligned — not only when it’s convenient.
   The Trust Triangle
7. The practice of personal integrity
   Keep your behavior aligned with your stated values — match your walk to your talk.
   The Six Pillars of Self-Esteem, Made Practical
8. Follow through on micro-commitments
   Always do the small thing you said you’d do — weak ties live or die on reliability.
   The Strength of Weak Ties
9. Extend trust deliberately to invite it
   Trust others first, in bounded ways, before they have earned every dimension — it is how trust is built.
   The Trust Triangle
10. Build trust with yourself through consistent small commitments
    Each kept promise to yourself reduces the self-doubt that drives shame after future delays.
    Self-Forgiveness and Procrastination

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