FIVE LIFE AGREEMENTS FOR A HEALTHIER LIFE

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AGREEMENT 1: BE IMPECCABLE WITH YOUR WORD

When you stand by and follow your word (not promises) you build Integrity, creditability, and more important BELIEVABILITY.

Remember that your word (s) and action(s)/inaction(s), have:

1) Power- A) Internal B) External

2) Influence- A) Internal B) External

What you do or do not do/ say or do not say not only affects you, yet also the people, places and things around you. Even what you don’t see. It is the ripple effect.

 

AGREEMENT 2: DON’T TAKE ANYTHING PERSONALLY

Everything is not about you. It is more than likely about the way you are acting, or something another person is trying to project onto you.

People react or respond to your behavior, not who you as a person.

When you take things personally you assume responsibility that is not yours. “Your Heart Is known by the path you walk.”

 

AGREEMENT 3: DON’T MAKE ASSUMPTIONS

Making assumptions set’s yourself and others up for conflict and chaos. This is no different than an expectation.

Assumptions are nothing more that faulty perception and beliefs. That you generally act on and create conflict and chaos.

  

AGREEMENT 4: ALWAYS DO YOUR BEST

 

Your best is first for yourself not others, they are the honored recipients of you doing your best.

Your best will change from situation to situation, as you  learn from each experience,

Your best will change over time.

By doing your best you do not give power or control of yourself to others.

                                      

AGREEMENT 5: BE SKEPTICAL, BUT LEARN TO LISTEN

 

Don’t believe yourself or others until you have listened. Most of our knowledge is based on faulty information, beliefs, and or perceptions. Question yourself, ask for more information. Even the decision you made has a little doubt (what is called second-guessing).

Reasonable doubt used in our Courts is a good way to be skeptical without closing off others or being rude.

Do not just listen to the words, but listen to the intent behind the words. Do the actions or behavior match the words and situations?

All information has a kernel of truth and insight, yet from there, anything can happen to it.

 

“Life (external) only intrudes, as long as we allow it”.

~ Eugene Cummunings

Written by Marc Baisden