8 Helpful Principles

2024 Author: Harry Day | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 15:43

1. Strive to be, not to seem

You can be, but you can seem. You can be strong, but you can only seem to them … You can be skillful and knowledgeable, but you can only seem to them … The one who seems, and not is, every second runs the risk of being exposed and lives under this fear. One must be, not seem. And you need to have a reserve: to be better, stronger, more skillful and kinder than you seem!

2. Learn the art of telling yourself the truth

Learn to tell yourself the truth, master this difficult art, then the picture of the world will be adequate. To tell yourself the truth is to see all the complex combination of motives - both cute and not so - that underlie each of our own actions and in each assessment of the actions of other people. There are no simple motives.

3. Choose a horizontal career

A vertical career is outside of a person; these are positions, titles and wealth. And a horizontal career is within a person, these are his values, knowledge, skills and useful habits. Strive for a horizontal career, not a vertical one - ascend the levels of professional skill, the ability to do what others cannot, and do not cling to positions, titles and wealth. Positions and titles can be deprived, wealth - taken away, but the skill will remain. There will be skill - everything will be.

4. Set a big goal outside of life

Small goals are those that are achieved during life. Often, having achieved such a goal, a person experiences devastation, disappointment, or even loses meaning in later life. Have a big goal in life - one that you will certainly achieve, but after death. You will speed up the train of life and jump off on the go. Then you will stop wandering through life, it will straighten up with a stretched string and gain meaning, and you will see your path. A path that will prompt, support, protect and answer all questions.

5. Rejoice in failure more than good luck

Failure indicates mistakes, gives feedback to reality, helps to build a more adequate picture of the world, full of new perspectives. The headwind helps those who know how to handle the sail. Rejoice at the new wealth of opportunities that failure brings, and you will learn how to turn negative into positive.

6. Do without complaints and requests

Don't complain or ask, unless it's your managerial move. Complain and ask from weakness, from which they become even weaker. Turn a complaint or request into an offer: offer, do not ask! A person who refuses a complaint or a request loses nothing; a person who refuses to accept an offer misses the opportunity.

7. Feel the power of indifference

The power is in indifference. Indifference is in readiness for any result, for any result can become a stone in the foundation of success if you know how to use this stone. He who knows what to do with any result is indifferent to the result and is strong.

8. Do not because, but in order to

Make decisions, proceeding not from reasons that lie in the past, but from the interests of the future: "not because …", but "in order to …". The past cannot be changed, but the future can be made. Don't fight for the past, but rule the future. Forget how the decision appeared, but calculate all its consequences, which lie in the near and distant future, both good and bad, and if they suit you, then take it and act!