Importance of fulfilling the Promises

If we tell someone we are going to do something and then we don't do it, we are breaking a promise. Regardless of what we have promised, we have made a commitment and are morally obliged to fulfill it. There are two flags that should be united: promise and deliver.

A question of credibility

A person has credibility before others if his actions and his facts do not contradict each other. If I say A but my behavior expresses B, I am transmitting a false attitude. Exactly the same thing happens with promises. Its non-compliance makes me unreliable, a person who talks just to talk.

On the contrary, if I do what I promise to do, I become someone who does not generate doubts, someone trustworthy.

In it language popular it is said that someone has a word when what he says he fulfills it. This way of acting helps to strengthen personal will and, at the same time, projects an image of credibility on others.

The fulfillment of promises is a Golden Rule for the coexistence. If this rule is broken, the trust between people and affective ties deteriorate.

A father who gives his son his word and then forgets about it or makes any excuse for not complying, is sowing disappointment and distrust.

If we make promises and we know we won't keep them, it's better to shut up.

Sometimes we want to satisfy others and we say that we are going to do this or that, but deep down we are aware that it is not true. With this way of acting we are doing wrong in a double sense: our words they lose all their value and those who expect the fulfillment of the commitment are finally disappointed.

We are great excuse makers

It is relatively easy to find an excuse to justify ourselves to others when we do not keep our word. The range of excuses, excuses and apologies is almost endless.

If we make a commitment and for whatever reason we cannot do it, we have two options: choose a pretext more or less convincing or show your face and offer the appropriate explanations that justify our breach. The first path is probably the easiest and most comfortable, but deep down it is mediocre behavior and typical of a loser.

Whoever shows his face offers the best version of himself, because he acts without fear and without lies.

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