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The guiding principles that shape my character, my work, and my approach to helping others design lives of purpose.
“What the mind of man can conceive and believe, the mind of man can achieve.”
Conceive → Believe → Achieve. The power of imagination is the builder of all plans and ideas.
“Actions express priorities. — M. Gandhi”
The pursuit of definiteness of purpose.
Honesty in all things, even the smallest details.
Break it down, write it down, ask why.
Own your intentions; reject excuses.
Act despite fear.
Hold the vision, adjust the approach.
Be genuine — the most valuable gift you have to offer is yourself.
Confidence through deep self-awareness.
Give more in value than you receive in payment.
Your income is determined by how many people you serve and how well.
Place others' interests first.
Your most valuable offering is yourself.
Stay open to receiving.
Enduring happiness comes only through helping others find it. No act of kindness is wasted, even when it goes unacknowledged. When the opportunity appears, I give.
I make no home for hatred, envy, selfishness, jealousy, malice, pessimism, doubt, or fear. These are the seeds from which most of the world’s trouble grows. I know them by name. I choose differently, every time.
Thought is an inlet to a shared ocean. Whatever I set afloat on it eventually reaches others. So I keep my mind filled deliberately: peace, freedom, courage, self-confidence, goodwill, faith, kindness, loyalty, love for truth, and justice. I set no destructive thought adrift on that water.
My character is not inherited. It is built from my acts and thoughts, one day at a time. I guard with care everything that goes into its construction.
I will not slander another person, no matter how much I believe they deserve it. Every destructive suggestion I speak, I plant first in my own mind.
The time I might spend exposing the faults of others is better invested in discovering and correcting my own. That is the more profitable work.
I deal with others justly, generously, and fairly. Always. Even when it goes unnoticed. Even when there is no ordinary reward. My character is the sum total of my acts and deeds. What I do when no one is watching is still who I am.
I forgive those who act unjustly toward me, without weighing whether they deserve it. Forgiveness is not a gift to the other person. It is a law that strengthens my character and clears what accumulates in my own subconscious mind.
I am honest in all my dealings, down to the smallest detail. Not only because fairness demands it, but because every honest act presses the quality deeper into who I am.
I believe the Golden Rule is the foundation of all human conduct. I will not do to another what I would not accept done to me if our positions were reversed.
I give all of myself in whatever I do.
