Promise to Oneself

A Promise to Oneself is a promise made by a cognitive agent to themselves.

• AKA: Personal Commitment.
• Context:
  • It can range from being an Undocumented Promise to Oneself to being a Documented Promise to Oneself.
  • It can (often) be made to achieve a Personal Goal.
• Example(s):
  • a New Year's Resolution.
  • …
• Counter-Example(s):
  • a Legal Agreement.
• See: Commitment, Broken Promise.

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References

2002

• (Koestner et al., 2002) ⇒ Richard Koestner, Natasha Lekes, Theodore A. Powers, and Emanuel Chicoine. (2002). “Attaining personal goals: self-concordance plus implementation intentions equals success.” In: Journal of personality and social psychology, 83(1).

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