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Hello and welcome back to another episode of Trained for a Great Life. Today, I'm going to dive into something deeply practical, deceptively simple and profoundly impactful. As some of you may know, I've kicked off a new coaching program in the gym called the Momentum Project. It is six weeks designed to break old patterns, build new habits and create a meaningful shift in the lives of the people that are doing it. I want you to imagine something for a second. You've had a long day, dinner's finished and you see a ton of dishes stacked up in the sink. There's a tiny voice in your head that whispers well, I'll just do it tomorrow. Seems harmless, right. But here's the thing Every time you say that you're going to do something and you don't follow through, even something small, it chips away at your sense of integrity and your belief in yourself.

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If you want to wake up to a clean kitchen, you have to do that work. It's what I call keeping your word to yourself, and it's going to be one of the foundational pillars of the Momentum Project, because your self-belief, your confidence, your trust in your own word these are incredibly delicate and valuable assets. They're built or broken by the countless tiny promises that you either keep or break every single day, many of which you may not even realize you're doing. Think about this one If you told a friend that you'd pick them up in five minutes, but it's actually going to be 12, what does that do? It subtly communicates to your friend, to yourself and even to the universe not to get woo-woo, but there's energy that is put out with these things that your words aren't really reliable. It sounds minor, but these small concessions that accumulate create a pattern Before you know it. Bigger commitments become easier to break, excuses get louder and progress stalls.

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One of my favorite thinkers and podcasters, Chris Williamson from Modern Wisdom, often talks about the concept of integrity and self-promises. He says your confidence is built on the evidence of promises you've kept to yourself, and he's spot on. Confidence isn't built through big heroic acts. It's constructed brick by brick, through small daily actions. The Momentum Project is designed around exactly this idea.

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Accountability within a small supportive group can be incredibly powerful, but real change starts when you hold yourself accountable. It's about you versus you. Can you trust yourself to follow through? Let's get practical for a minute. What is one tiny thing that you can commit to today? Something simple, Maybe. It's spending 10 minutes tidying up a workspace taking a walk that you keep putting off, or drinking water that you promise yourself to drink, or drinking water that you promise yourself to drink.

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Whatever it is, choose it carefully. The one piece of feedback that I've given the group on the habits that they choose is that I will tell them if I think they're trying to do too much. I'm not going to choose their habits and I'm not going to put more on their plate, but I will tell them if I think they're trying to do too much, because that is where these things start to fall apart. Okay, so choose it carefully, commit to it sincerely and then execute. Because here's a secret when you keep your word to yourself, you send a very powerful message to your subconscious and to the world around you, saying I am someone who does what I say I will do, and that message creates momentum. That's what we're here for. This is what the Momentum Project is all about Building momentum. One kept promise at a time, so you can ask yourself where am I slipping, when am I making small concessions, and then choose to be better. That's it for today. Go keep your word, Watch everything else. Begin to shift. I'll see you in the gym.