Few people realize that success is within their reach right now! The secret of success is determined by your daily agenda. Most people overestimate today and underestimate tomorrow.
My success agenda is determined by the daily decisions I make and the daily disciplines I practice. You do not make decisions because they are easy. You do not make decisions because they are cheap. You do not make decisions because they are popular. You make decisions because they are right!
Here are 5 Decisions and Disciplines to practice daily.
1.Responsibility – I have decided to accept responsibility and be responsible daily.
2.Values – I have decided to embrace and practice right values. A practice is an activity that may work in some situations but not all. A value applies to all situations.
Principles are important because they function like a map allowing us to make
wise decisions. If we ignore them or deny their reliability, we become like travelers refusing to use a road map because we don’t think it’s accurate. While we may acknowledge the reliability of many principles, we only internalize those we deem important. When that happens, the principle has become a value that serves as an internal map that we use to direct our lives. A value, then, is an internalized principle that guides our decisions.
3.Improvement – I have decided to grow and improve daily. “When you cease to be better, you cease to be good. When you stop growing, you cease to be useful – a weed in the garden of prosperity … We are what we are today because we were what we were yesterday. And our thoughts today will determine our actions tomorrow.” ―George Knox, on Leadership
4.Health – I have decided to practice good health daily. According to Duke Medical Center, men who are in poor health are 4x more likely to die of a heart-attack than men who are physically fit. People who cannot find time for recreation are obligated sooner or later to find time for illness.
5.Relationships – I have decided to invest in healthy relationships. There is a Law of Relationship that says every person is merely four people away from any other human on earth. Think of it! This simply means that you know Bill, who knows Judy, who knows Charles, who knows anyone else you would ever want to know. You are already networked with the entire world. Reciprocity Rule of Human Behavior: Over time, people come to share, reciprocally, similar attitudes toward each other.
Almost all our sorrows spring out of relationships with the wrong people.
Every day of his adult life, Ben Franklin set aside the time to examine two
Questions:
The morning question was, “What good shall I do today?”
The evening question was, “What good have I done today?”
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