Today I found an article entitled “Building Trust”. It was written by T.C. Coleman from “Upwardaction”. The article was referring to people in business and contains a number of very good points.Here is one of them:

“Exhibit Personal Integrity. When building trust it is important to always honor your commitments. Simply put, say what you mean and do what you say you will do. Some of us, even with the best intentions, find ourselves falling short of our promises. Starting today, only commit to what you know you can do, not what you want to perform or think you should be completing.”

Most of you reading this would think of the interactions and relationships you have with other people, your clients or your family.

But …first of all these principles have to be put into action when interacting with yourself!

Ask yourself the following questions:

• How can others trust me if I can’t trust myself?

• How often have I broken promises I made to myself?

• How often have I put others first, to my own detriment, when there was no pressing need to do so?

• How often have I taken something on just because I was unable to say “no”?

What effect does all of this have on you?

• Your self esteem takes a hit every time you break a promise you made to yourself
• Negative self talk takes over and becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy
• You don’t even take the first step to change things for the better
• You feel you have no control over your life
• You develop a “victim” mentality
• Your stress levels increase
• Your health suffers

To Increase your Self Esteem start by taking the following action steps:

• Starting today, only commit to what you know you can do
• Always honour the commitments you made to yourself
• Do what you say you will do - for yourself, even if nobody else knows about the commitment you made
• Put your appointments with yourself into your diary - be on time and treat yourself like you would a V.I.P or a very important customer.

Yoga has a set of rules to live by. One the concepts is called “Ahimsa”.

Ahimsa is non-violence in action, thoughts and words. It is very broad and applies to everything, you will hear me come back to this principle time and time again.

Ahimsa has to start with oneself, from within. Negative self talk is a form of violence towards yourself. Not keeping your commitments towards yourself is a form of violence.

Make one appointment with yourself today and keep it! Start practising Ahimsa and build your self esteem in the process.

Connie,

Your Yoga Partner

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