A promise Spoken “out loud”
At a wedding I attended recently, the bride and groom announced before family and friends that they promise to……. This is different from most weddings I have attended where the priest states the vows and the bride & groom say, “I do.” Hearing the couple state their own intentions made their commitment seem certain to be actualized. This reminded me of the accountability study done by the American Society of Training and Development, where they discovered that the likelih