I’ll Start Monday
Broken Promises, Lost Self-Trust, and How to Earn Your Word BackBy Hugh Garrow
Length6h 42m
About this audiobook
At ten forty on a Sunday night, Dana set her running shoes by the front door. She knew that at six fifteen she would turn off the alarm and get back into bed. She was right. What she felt was not guilt. It was the feeling of a forecast confirmed.
Every promise you make to yourself is a small forecast, and part of you keeps count. After enough broken ones, it stops believing you, and something in you shrugs. That shrug is what most of us call low motivation.
This complete, unabridged book argues that credibility with yourself is lost and earned back the way any credibility is. It sets out the worst-week test, a simple record of your word, how to renegotiate a promise before it falls due and what to do on the day after you break one anyway. It says plainly which parts are measured and which are theory, and offers its tools as suggestions, not tested methods.
It does not ask for more willpower. If anything, it asks for less. Promise less, and keep all of it.
Audiobook details
GenreSelf-Help, Psychology
Length6 hrs 42 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateOct 9, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Opening
2Introduction. The Friend Who Always Cancels
3Part one. How Your Word Works
4Chapter one. Every Intention Is a Forecast
5Chapter two. You Know Yourself by Watching
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6Chapter three. No Lapse Is Just One Day
7Chapter four. The Lapse District
8Chapter five. What Low Credibility Feels Like
9Part two. How the Account Ran Dry
10Chapter six. The Inflation of Promises
11Chapter seven. The Fresh Start Problem
12Chapter eight. The Borrowed Finish
13Chapter nine. Goals You Didn’t Write
14Chapter ten. The Safety of Not Promising
15Part three. Rebuilding Credit
16Chapter eleven. The Smallest Promise You Will Certainly Keep
17Chapter twelve. Keep It Whole
18Chapter thirteen. Renegotiate Before You Break
19Chapter fourteen. Close the Old Accounts
20Chapter fifteen. Keep the Record
21Part four. When You Break It Anyway
22Chapter sixteen. The Lapse Protocol
23Chapter seventeen. Kindness Is Not a Loophole
24Chapter eighteen. Effort Is the Evidence
25Chapter nineteen. Finish Something
26Chapter twenty. Other People’s Eyes
27Part five. A Word You Can Believe
28Chapter twenty-one. Earning the Big Promise
29Chapter twenty-two. Rules That Serve, Rules That Rule
30Chapter twenty-three. The Identity That Follows the Record
31Chapter twenty-four. A Year of Kept Promises
32Conclusion. The Friend Who Shows Up
33The Ledger
34Note on Sources
35Notes
36Closing
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