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A Millionaire Said, “Crazy Things Happen When You Keep The Promises You Make To Yourself.”
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A Millionaire Said, “Crazy Things Happen When You Keep The Promises You Make To Yourself.”

Imagine if You did everything You said You would do.

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Franklin O'Kanu
Sep 25, 2022
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A Millionaire Said, “Crazy Things Happen When You Keep The Promises You Make To Yourself.”
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Entrepreneur. Millionaire. Woman. That’s who Danielle Leslie is.

I came across the following Forbes article featuring her story and was captivated. Here’s someone who was working in Silicon Valley as a top leader and then let go. Turns out being fired was the best thing to happen to her.

Losing the comfort blanket that comes with a high paying job thrust her full time into her own enterprise in which she’s thrived. One of her Instagram ads has the following quote, “Do you know the crazy things we can create in this world when we keep our word to ourselves?”

As a budding Entrepreneur myself, I decided to apply this quote to my life. For the next three months, I embarked to keep every promise I made to myself. Here are the results of that experiment.

The Self Promises

First things first, what does a promise to ourselves look like? The best scenario is where we hold ourselves accountable to do something that we said we would do. Whatever the task is, we make it known to ourselves that this is…

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