Making promises to myself, in my personal writing practice, has been important to me all my life. In practical application it is so much easier for me to make promises to others, and keep them, than it is to make promises to myself. "Why is that?" and the answer I gave myself is that in making promises to others I create a model of accountability and reinforcement. I duplicate that in my writing and have grown increasingly better at making and keeping promises to myself.

Change of any sort requires courage.

Share your heart as deeply as you can reach.

Plant the seeds of your dreams and weed all the objections out.

Remember that nurturing yourself is as important (if not more so) as nurturing others.

It is of the small joys and little pleasures that the greatest of our days are built.

Courage doesn't always roar.