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I Tracked Every Promise I Made to Myself for 6 Months. 73% Were Broken Before Lunch.

Abraham Ojo

May 13, 2026

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A man sitting at a kitchen table at dawn looking at a notebook with two columns of tally marks, the left column significantly fuller than the right.

Self-trust is not a feeling. It is a track record. And most people have been destroying theirs with micro-betrayals so small they stopped noticing years ago.

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The Real Reason You Keep Starting Over Every Monday (It Is Not Laziness)

Abraham Ojo

May 12, 2026

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A woman standing in a dim hallway at night holding her phone, a gym bag with the tag still on sitting against the wall, the stillness of someone making a plan she has made before.

You have restarted your goals so many times that restarting has become the goal. The problem is not your discipline. The problem is what your brain does with a clean slate.

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I Tracked Every Promise I Made to Myself for 6 Months. 73% Were Broken Before Lunch.

The Real Reason You Keep Starting Over Every Monday (It Is Not Laziness)