When it comes to keeping promises to myself, I’ve found that one of the most powerful things that I have done to myself is to actually verbalize and write whatever goals I’ve set for myself out.

For the past week, I found myself constantly ending up doing things that were a big drain on my time and energy. I found myself playing addictive flash games online, watching episodes of “How I Met Your Mother“, as well as playing games with my cousins and friends.

Then I just decided that it all had to stop.

So I made my promises to myself crystal clear, and for that added effect, I said them out loud to myself.

“I WILL NOT watch another episode of “How I Met Your Mother” till Thursday.”

“I WILL NOT touch any more flash games until after the exams.”

“I WILL NOT play Heroes of Newearth until after Thursday.”

Mysteriously, I feel that verbalizing your promises to yourself and sharing them with the people around me helped stave of the temptation to do all those things!

I’m going to keep these little promises I’ve made for myself and work on some larger, world changing, power-packed promises for myself later! Hope this little lifehack helps you guys out there keep your self-promises too!