The promises you break to yourself are the ones that teach you not to trust you.

Every commitment you make and drop is evidence you are quietly collecting about yourself. After enough of them, deciding to do something stops carrying any weight, because some part of you already knows how this tends to go. That is why plans start feeling hollow while you are still making them. You are negotiating with somebody whose record you have seen.

Make one promise this week so small it would be strange to break, and keep it exactly. Then another. Trust rebuilds through boring evidence, never through a bigger promise.