The very best question I know for improving your process for making and keeping promises is this one:
“How can we make this 1% better today?”
1% seems like a pathetic target for improvement until you realise it compounds.
Compounding works in any direction of course, so it helps to frame the question in the direction you want without tying down the ‘how’. This takes some thinking about, but is well the effort.
Hiut Denim (who gave me the idea) has this one, for example:
“How can we reduce the environmental impact of our jeans today?”
Tiny, daily, incremental improvement are easy to start, easy to keep going as a habit, and add up sooner than you think to a ‘better’ that’s far bigger than you could ever have dreamt of.
What would your question be?