{"id":2559,"date":"2026-07-10T12:42:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T09:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dolphinsgroup.co.ke\/dolphins_training\/blogging\/?p=2559"},"modified":"2026-07-10T12:42:34","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T09:42:34","slug":"promise-this-to-yourself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dolphinsgroup.co.ke\/dolphins_training\/blogging\/promise-this-to-yourself\/","title":{"rendered":"Promise This to Yourself"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1095\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dolphinsgroup.co.ke\/dolphins_training\/blogging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/JMN_9335-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dolphinsgroup.co.ke\/dolphins_training\/blogging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/JMN_9335-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.dolphinsgroup.co.ke\/dolphins_training\/blogging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/JMN_9335-768x509.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.dolphinsgroup.co.ke\/dolphins_training\/blogging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/JMN_9335-1024x678.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>1. To see optimism not as a prediction but as a choice. Pessimists are sometimes right, but they rarely build anything.<\/p>\n<p>2. To remember that the future is not a place were going. Its a thing were making. Every day, with every choice, whether we admit it or not.<\/p>\n<p>3. To be so busy making things better that you have no time to explain why things cant improve.<\/p>\n<p>4. To understand that it might not work is not a reason to stop. Plan for the downside and commit to the contribution.<\/p>\n<p>5. To trade the comfort of certainty for the possibility of contribution. Certainty is for spectators.<\/p>\n<p>6. To be too generous for hoarding, too curious for cynicism, too committed for despair, and too busy shipping to permit the presence of Resistance.<\/p>\n<p>7. To stop waiting to be picked. The world doesnt care about your credentials. It only cares about what you create.<\/p>\n<p>8. To begin. Before youre ready. Because you will never be ready.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1. To see optimism not as a prediction but as a choice. Pessimists are sometimes right, but they rarely build anything. 2. To remember that the future is not a place were going. Its a thing were making. Every day, with every choice, whether we admit it or not. 3. To be so busy making [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[2772,423,424,2752,2753,2754,2751,1673,56,2756,2740,2744,2749,55,390,2742,387,388,389,2755,2729,2724],"yst_prominent_words":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dolphinsgroup.co.ke\/dolphins_training\/blogging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2559"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dolphinsgroup.co.ke\/dolphins_training\/blogging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dolphinsgroup.co.ke\/dolphins_training\/blogging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dolphinsgroup.co.ke\/dolphins_training\/blogging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dolphinsgroup.co.ke\/dolphins_training\/blogging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2559"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.dolphinsgroup.co.ke\/dolphins_training\/blogging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2559\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2560,"href":"https:\/\/www.dolphinsgroup.co.ke\/dolphins_training\/blogging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2559\/revisions\/2560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dolphinsgroup.co.ke\/dolphins_training\/blogging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dolphinsgroup.co.ke\/dolphins_training\/blogging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dolphinsgroup.co.ke\/dolphins_training\/blogging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2559"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dolphinsgroup.co.ke\/dolphins_training\/blogging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=2559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}