When you are looking for energy to fuel conviction, take care to draw upon only positive & principle-based sources; avoid the trap of tapping into negative drivers like defiance or resentment, no matter how powerful they may seem.
dare to live well
From time to time, as your constitution permits, try to live in such a manner as to enjoy a special kind of pride: the pride of a person who in a foolish moment accepts the impossible dare – then pulls it off to perfection.
never compromise on compromise
There may be times when circumstances dictate that you absolutely must compromise.
Whenever this happens, make the best of it by engineering a scenario where what needs to be sacrificed is simply some perceived comfort, traded off for the benefit of strategically adapting to your current context.
Just have a care that you never permit compromise to be a matter of relinquishing or sacrificing your principles. Ever.
Consider this deeply: Treat intelligently managing compromise as investing in your future, not acquiescing to your present.
dare to live proud
Live every day in such a way as to have reason to be proud of what you’re becoming!
commit to real commitment
When you’re truly committed, it shows through in every little thing.
3 things you need for good decisions
For really effective decision-making, the trick is to know and balance these three things:
- What information to have at hand.
- What information you need.
- What information to put aside.
are your standards yours?
Your Standards – they don’t really exist anywhere but in your own mind.
So for them to have any real value, they need to be lived every day.
Unless you live your own Standards day to day, they simply revert back to ideas, which soon dissolve into mere memories.