If you cancel on yourself every week, you’re the flakiest friend you’ve got.

Plans made with yourself break first, because there is nobody on the other end to disappoint. The run, the practice, the hour set aside for something you actually care about, all of it gets traded away to whatever asked louder. Do that enough times and you stop believing your own plans, which is exactly what happens with a friend who never shows. Trust in yourself gets built the same way trust in anyone else does.

Make one small commitment to yourself this week and keep it exactly as scheduled, even if you have to shrink it. Twenty minutes kept beats two hours promised.