Being honest with yourself

What you would not have done to yourselves, never do unto others.
Alexander Severus

You would never lie and cheat to yourself, nor would you stab yourself in the back by speaking ill of yourself in the company of your fellow men. So why then fellow comrades do you speak ill of your neighbors - surely it is the same thing? You have proven yourself to be untrustworthy, that you are willing to undermine your comrades and fellow soldiers - even though you took an oath to honor the legion. In the heat of battle we need to be able to trust each other - those who are not able to trust themselves and treat themselves fairly or properly cannot hope to put others needs ahead of their own.

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Are you honest with yourself? Really? Can you look at yourself in the mirror and meet your own eyes? Yes / No
In what ways have you let yourself down over the last 10 days?
Have you done all that you could over the last 10 days, or have there been periods of doing less than you know you are capable of?
Have you complained about everyone and everything to anyone who will listen?
Have you stuck to your new disciplines or are you pretending to do so? What do I mean? Say you wanted to give up smoking, and you had planned that on this day - 70 days ago, you would have cut down or completely stopped smoking by now. Have you? What about those clients you said you were going to call and speak to - not to sell them anything, but to see if there was anything you could do to help them grow their business - say if you saw a prospect that could benefit them more than they could have benefited you? Those are the disciplines I am talking about.
I'm not saying it is easy because it isn't, life can and does get in the way - but we do need to be honest with ourselves. When we can be honest and above board in our dealings with ourselves, then we know exactly where we stand and we are more likely to pull ourselves up by the bootstraps and go again.
Imagine you had been going for a walk every morning, and then you had gotten sick and one day off had turned to a month, it can be easy to say - Well I've not been feeling very well and I really don't have the time... it can also be easy to be honest with ourselves and say, I have been slacking off, so you lay out your clothes the night before, set the alarm clock for your walking time and then get up and get going when the alarm goes off.
Being honest with yourself - that is one of the major keys to success
Treating others as you would treat yourself is another.
Which is something to think about.