Jason Hewlett on Your Intended Message

What intrigued me about Jason Hewlett was the concept of The Promise to the One and his practice of journaling.

These are excerpts from the interview with Jason Hewlett on the podcast - Your Intended Message with host - George Torok.,

Now speaking of promise, your book is called "the promise to the one" who or what is the one and why is that significant?

The one is you. The one is yourself. So, what's your promise that you've made to yourself and what potentially have you may be broken in those promises throughout your life? That's all.

What this book asks, and it's really a practice and a read of discovering what makes you happy? And what is your true purpose in life? And what are some of the promises that you made when you were young that maybe you've forgotten? as well as what are some of the opportunities that are coming your way that maybe you need to turn away and keep a promise to self? 

Keep a promise to self

"The promise" is the implication here that there is one promise to yourself, that is more relevant than all the other promises, because we promised ourselves all kinds of things, Is there one key promise that stands above all the others? 

Great question. I don't think so. I think that it's a matter of little promises, big promises. I mean, we could talk semantics all day between a goal and a promise commitment, etc. But I do like to lean into the concept of why set a goal when we can make a promise. And that's not to say that a goal isn't important, because of course they are I've lived goals my whole life, and they've helped me accomplish a lot.

But when we when we have goals, and we miss them, we just set a new goal. There's no ramification. Whereas with the promise, if you make it and break it, you have a problem. And so, really promises a sacred goal, it's something you are absolutely going to do. So, whatever the promise is to yourself, maybe it is to lose weight. That could be a good goal that you could say, I'm going to set some goals, some particulars to get me to my promise, which is, I just want to feel healthier. Maybe that's the great promise Proclamation. And that's why I say goals are particulars were promises or proclamations.

So, what are your proclamations in your true promises to yourself

So, this is a case of one having some really vital conversations with oneself?

Yeah, it's certainly a conversation with self in the very beginning of the book, I teach the power of journaling, and why writing in a journal is so essential to our self-assessment, including keeping those promises because Nietzsche said that the problem with setting up or making a promise is that you forget what you promised yourself.

So how are we remembering that maybe it's through journaling? Maybe it's through the exercises in the book that take you through this process of asking yourself am I really living a life of integrity? Am I finding what my true character is?

Do I know what level of kindness I'm willing to share with the world or service, the chapters are just very simple chapters, self-acceptance, habits, calling those types of things, and then it's just expounds on that with autobiographical stories of mine, plus, then exercises that you can go through and really expand your mind and your horizons and fill your soul with the piece that you want to keep your promises.

You mentioned journaling and by journaling, do you mean every day. When should you write something down?

You could if you look behind me, those are all journals back there.

I do have journals for just writing down what happened the last day or the last week, I have journals of creativity only. I have journals of a spiritual nature where I might read a spiritual book and then write what I learned there or hear a spiritual talk.

I mean, there's all kinds of journals that you could do. I do like the concept of trying to journal on a daily basis, but that's very difficult. And so, even if you just did once a week, say on a Sunday, you know, when we're all kind of sitting there ready for the new week to begin, maybe just jot down what happened the last week as a history, and then start to really write the affirmations and your intentions for the coming week.

You can create your entire life through what you write down. And as we know, if we don't write down a goal, it becomes just a dream that's forgotten. And so that's where the intentionality of writing in the journal is a game changer.

Do you read your journal?

Oh, yeah, I, I'll go back, even when I'm opening it up, like this morning, open it up, look back over a couple pages, even looked back a year ago, or went to another journal, check that you know, check that out, see where you're at.

And that really helps you to see what kind of promises you're making or breaking, for example, in your finances, or in your health, or in the way that you're thinking the way that you wake up, what's your morning routine?

If I have the same morning routine every single morning, and I am not improving in some ways through the years, how do I need to change that? So, as I self-assess, then I go through and say,

Oh, that makes sense. I need to shift that behavior, whether it's opening the phone and reading the news each day, to start your day, rather than not opening the phone at all. And just going for a jog, you know, so that's how we can shift that behavior.

These are excerpts from the interview with Jason Hewlett on the podcast series - Your Intended Message.

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