Sarah Arnold-Hall

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Decide Your Excuses Ahead of Time

Decide your excuses ahead of time. 

Plan them.

Make exceptions.

Choose when it’s okay for you to not show up for your goal when you had planned to.

  • Decide it’s okay the day your sister gives birth to her baby.

  • Decide it’s okay when you have a migraine.

  • Decide it’s okay when your kid gets sick.

But don’t decide in the moment, just because you don’t feel like it.

Decide ahead of time.

Make a list of valid excuses. Anything can be on the list.

But if it’s not on the list, don’t make an excuse.

A long day, argument with your friends, feeling tired - none of that counts. Unless it was already on the list.

Be the kind of person who can stick to her word. 

It’s how you show love to your future self ❤️