Article: Find someone that you trust and ask them to be your commitment partner. A commitment partner is someone you share your personal, professional or social commitments with so they can hold you accountable for your actions. If you struggle to keep your commitments, a commitment partner could be a great tool for you. Use your best friend or significant other as your commitment partner so they can ask you if you fulfilled the commitments you discuss with them. Having someone to answer to can help motivate you to keep your commitments. If you find yourself unable to follow through with commitments because you forget about them, try scheduling reminders for yourself on your phone or e-mail calendar. Most iPhones and Androids have applications that allow you to set reminders to go off at specific times and dates. E-mail applications like Outlook can also provide you with reminders of things you have committed to do. Following through is a habit, and as such you need to treat all commitments with equal importance. That means you must keep the promises you make to yourself as well as those you make to others. When you decide to do something, do it, regardless of who you committed to. Following through on your word no matter what will help make it second nature and eventually will require less and less mental effort. When you make keeping your word a habit, it will become second nature to you. Instead of using tools to help you keep your word, you can train yourself to do so without having to convince yourself. Make keeping your promises a habit so it requires less and less self-convincing to follow through. Maintaining such a habit will lead others to see you as a man that keeps his word.
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Get a commitment partner. Schedule reminders for yourself on your phone or in your calendar. Keep commitments you make to yourself. Make a habit of keeping your promises.
Article: You can use any type of paper you want to make your pennants. The best paper to use is scrapbooking paper because it is very colorful. Cardstock is also a good option because it is sturdy. The paper can be all one color, or multiple colors. You will need one sheet of paper for each letter in your message. You will also need an extra sheet for the spaces between each word. You can use almost any shape you want, but the most popular shapes are circles, triangles, and rectangles. Make the template a few inches larger than the letters you are planning on using. It needs to be large enough so that you can easily read it across the room. If you are using a rectangle, consider cutting a ^ shape into the bottom. Use a pencil if you can. Once you have cut the shapes out, erase any pencil marks that are still visible. These will be your pennants. You will be sticking the letters onto these. If you could not find a pencil, cut the shapes out just inside the lines you have made. Use a contrasting color. This will create a sort of frame around the letter. To do this, take your template and cut it smaller all around by to 1 inch (1.27 to 2.54 centimeters). Trace the template onto contrasting sheets of paper, cut the shapes out, and attach them to the center of each pennant. You can use glue or clear, double-sided tape. The letters need to be several inches high, but smaller than the pennants. You will need one letter for pennant. Consider using a contrasting color to make them more visible. Here are some ideas on what you can use for the letters: Use some large, letter stickers. Paint the letters on using stencils and acrylic paint. Cut the letters out of paper and glue them on. You can even use glitter scrapbooking paper for some extra sparkle. Choose a thin string, such as baker's twine, yarn, or balloon ribbon. Plan on leaving about 12 inches (30.48 centimeters) of string at the front and end of your banner so that you can hang it. This method will work best on triangle and square-shaped pennants. Use a hole punch to poke a hole in each top corner. Then, weave the ribbon through the holes like so: Push the string down through the left hole. Bring the string across the back of the pennant. Pull the string up through the right hole. Push the string down through the left hole of the next pennant. Bring it across the back of the pennant, and pull it back up through the right hole. Keep doing this until you have no more pennants. Flip the shape over, and lay the string across the back. Position it about inch (1.27 centimeters) below the top edge. Secure it in place with a long piece of clear tape. The tape should go from one side of the shape to the other. If you are using a rectangle shape, tape the string 1 inch (2.54 centimeters) down from the top edge. Fold the top edge back by 1 inch (2.54 centimeters) on top of the string. Secure it with glue or clear, double-sided tape. Depending on what you used, this can take anywhere between a few hours to a whole day.
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Choose your paper. Make sure you have enough paper to spell out your message. Create a template for the pennants using thick cardstock paper. Trace the template onto the back of each paper and cut the shapes out. Consider cutting a smaller version of the pennant shape and gluing it down onto the pennant first. Create your letters and stick them down onto the pennants. Choose and cut your string. Consider weaving some string through the pennants. Consider taping the string to the back of your banner. Wait for any glue and paint to dry before hanging the banner.
Article: Petroleum jelly is a fun ink to use because it will glow in the dark under a black light (UV light). To use this type of invisible ink, you will need petroleum jelly, Q-tip cotton swabs, white computer paper, and a black light. Most of these materials should be easily found around the house. You can purchase a black light at a local superstore or online. Dip the cotton swab into the petroleum jelly until you have a small amount on the end. You don't want a big glob of it because that will be difficult to write with. Write your message with the tip of the cotton swab. For best results, try to make the writing smooth, avoiding bumps from the jelly. To reveal the written message, shine a black light on the paper. You can even turn the normal lights out or look at it in a dark closet. The words you wrote will glow in the dark under the black light. You don't have to wait for the jelly to dry completely before revealing the message.
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Gather the necessary materials. Write on the paper with the jelly. Shine the black light on the paper.