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The Tom Ferry Podcast Experience

Why Do Most People Quit and Break Promises? | Mindset Monday

The Tom Ferry Podcast Experience

Tom Ferry

Education, Business, Self-improvement

4.71.1K Ratings

🗓️ 8 July 2019

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Summary

Why do most people quit? Why do they break their promises and commitments? Everyone does it, from breaking a promise to their family or quitting on a business goal, but the real question is why? On today’s #MindsetMonday, I share the ONE reason why you need to follow through on your promises and why you NEED to find that one vital reason to motivate you. You only need one reason to propel you and make your actions clear so you dominate your schedule, life, goals, and business.

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0:00.0

You ever thought about quitting?

0:02.0

Why do most people quit?

0:05.0

Why do most people not follow through?

0:07.6

Why do most people break their own promises?

0:11.2

Why do they break their own commitments?

0:13.0

I think about it all the time.

0:17.0

I look at my own life, I look at the people of the men and women that I've been blessed to coach I think about

0:24.0

all these extraordinary people that show up to our events and they write down this is what I'm gonna do

0:28.1

this is what it's all about this is what I'm in this this is the time and yet most people don't follow through.

0:35.0

Most people break their promises,

0:38.0

break their commitments with their kids,

0:40.0

with their spouses, with their business,

0:42.0

with their finances, they don business, with their finances.

0:43.5

They don't follow through and the question is why.

0:46.4

And I know if you sat and you said,

0:49.2

have I done it before?

0:50.5

You'd say the same thing, I am.

0:51.8

Yeah, of course I've done it before. I feel good about it. No, but why?

0:56.0

You know what I've discovered? People have tens of reasons why they don't fall through.

1:02.0

Tens of reasons why they can't fall through. TENS of reasons why they can justify or rationalize breaking

1:06.0

that promise. TENS of reasons why they can say, yeah, but it was just a one-off.

1:10.1

It was just this one situation. But you know what I know? You only need one real reason

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