Why Is Setting and Honoring Personal Standards Important?
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by James Rick
Personal standards determine your degree of tolerance. The higher the standard the less you’ll tolerate. Personal standards are important but of even greater importance is discriminating where to set standards. If you have high standards for everything - you’ll eventually have a nervous breakdown. But high standards for areas that are most important are critical for developing motivation to improve those areas.
Human beings take action when they are fed up with something, not concerned (which is when they complain) but fed up and will not tolerate any more.
If we broke this down into action steps:
1) Determine the areas of your life that are most important. (I define the six major areas of life as: physical, mental, spiritual, social, emotional and financial)
2) Now describe where you’re at in those areas. What does the current reality look like. What are you currently SETTLING for?
3) Now describe what you’d like your life to look like in these areas. What kind of personal standards would you need to set in order to get fed up with the way things are now? (so you can develop the motivation to take action)
4) Now in your mind decide that you will no longer tolerate the way things are and decide now that you’re not sure what you’re going to do, but decide that you’re going to do something!
5) Now begin thinking with a blank sheet of paper, write down all the ideas as possible ‘plans’ for improving each of the six major areas of life. Consider the best idea and take action on it. Trust that although it may not be the best idea, if you at least take action on something better ideas will come along and they’ll be easier to carry out because you’ve got momentum.
All actions in life are experiments. And failure should be thought of as feedback. If something doesn’t work, try something else. If that does not work, try something else. Personal standards are key for staying motivated to continue in this process.
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August 3rd, 2008 at 1:53 pm
Brilliant!