The Secret Sauce To Reaching Goals!

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Table of Contents

• Must Read Article💡

• Parker’s Breakdown: Keeping Promises 🔑

• The Study 📖

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Must Read Article💡

Keeping the Promises You Make to Yourself

The secret sauce to reaching our goals and building self confidence is all about keeping promises to ourselves.

If you say you are going to do something, and actually do it, its a little tick mark in the confidence box, but when you do not do it, it’s a withdrawal from the confidence account. THis makes you lose trust in yourself subconsciously.

In this article by Simoneknego.com, she’s discusses the importance of keeping promises to yourself. Here are a couple of the main points!👇👇

• Promises we make to ourselves are crucial for personal growth, even if they’re small commitments like making the bed every morning.

• Start small and commit to one specific promise, like exercising for 30 minutes daily or furthering your education.

• Consistently keeping promises to yourself, even when hard, proves to yourself that you matter and can inspire change.

Parker’s Breakdown: Keeping Promises 🔑

Reaching your goals and building unshakeable confidence starts with one simple rule: keep the promises you make to yourself. Every time you do, it’s like adding a small tick mark to the confidence box. But when you break these promises, even if it's just skipping that early workout, you subconsciously send a message to yourself that you can’t be trusted. Over time, this erodes your confidence, making future goals feel further out of reach.

Let’s say you set a goal to wake up at 6 AM and hit the gym before work. The first time you follow through, your brain registers it as a win—your confidence grows, and you start trusting yourself more. Each time you repeat it, that trust strengthens. But when you don’t follow through, it’s like a withdrawal from your confidence account. It’s not just about missing one workout; it’s about reinforcing the idea that you aren’t who you say you are.

If your big goal is to get fit, break it down into small, daily victories. Don’t make the full workout your initial focus. Make it a win just to get out of bed and get to the gym. Once you’re there, the odds of finishing a workout skyrocket. This daily commitment triggers dopamine (your motivation chemical), which keeps you moving forward. Consistent small wins build the momentum needed to achieve big goals.

Mark Manson once said, “The person you have to spend the most time listening to in your life is yourself. Try not to lose their respect.” Just like a friend who makes promises but never keeps them, you’d lose respect for them and probably cut them off. So, why do that to yourself? The person you spend the most time with is you. Keeping promises to yourself isn’t just about hitting goals—it’s about maintaining self-respect and trust.

Your confidence isn’t built overnight; it’s built by keeping small promises consistently. When you commit to something, even as simple as waking up at a specific time, and you follow through, you lay the foundation for bigger successes. Respect yourself, trust yourself, and the confidence to achieve your goals will follow.

The Study 📖

The effect of self-efficacy and self-set grade goals on academic outcomes

The study aimed to explore the impact of self-efficacy on goal setting and academic performance in an online learning environment. A sample of 160 teacher training students participated, completing a self-efficacy questionnaire (MSLQ). Researchers analyzed how self-efficacy influenced grade goals (ideal, expected, minimum) and learning outcomes using confirmatory factor analysis, correlation analysis, and structural equation modeling. The study specifically examined whether self-set grade goals mediated the effect of self-efficacy on academic outcomes, ultimately determining the strongest predictors of learning outcomes.

Here is what they found:

• Self-efficacy positively influenced grade goals, with stronger effects on expected and minimum goals than on ideal goals.

  • Relevance: Just like keeping promises to yourself, believing in your ability to reach realistic goals creates momentum. Each time you achieve an expected goal (like waking up at 6 AM), you reinforce your self-efficacy and strengthen your commitment to future goals.

• Expected grade goals most accurately predicted learning outcomes, more so than ideal or minimum goals.

  • Relevance: Setting realistic, achievable promises to yourself is key. Just as expected goals drive better outcomes in learning, committing to attainable daily habits (like sticking to a set wake-up time) builds confidence and trust in yourself, making future goals feel within reach.

• Self-efficacy indirectly impacted learning outcomes through its effect on expected grade goals.

  • Relevance: Your message emphasizes that keeping small promises to yourself boosts self-trust and success in bigger goals. The study’s finding supports this: following through on realistic commitments directly contributes to longer-term success.

• Higher self-efficacy led to higher grade goals, stronger goal commitment, and better learning outcomes.

  • Relevance: Just as keeping daily promises builds self-confidence, high self-efficacy leads to setting higher goals and maintaining stronger commitment. When you keep promises to yourself consistently, it raises your confidence to aim for bigger targets, just as in the study’s outcomes.

• Motivational factors like intrinsic goal orientation and task value were positively correlated with self-efficacy and grade goals.

  • Relevance: When your promises have intrinsic meaning (like a personal desire to be more disciplined), they are more likely to be fulfilled. This supports your message that having a clear “why” behind each promise makes it easier to follow through, increasing self-confidence and long-term success.