Do you hold yourself… and others… accountable? To a high bar? One that calls out to and requires the best of you? One that you measure yourself and your growth and development by?
Or are your values wishy washy, situational, vague, ebbing and flowing… allowing you to justify mediocrity, accept halfhearted effort? Do you hold firm to your chosen course in adversity? Or drift with the prevailing winds?
Your standards determine your reality. Setting standards, concisely articulating your values, creating clear, written goals with action plans for all your roles in life along with accountability checkpoints: these are the hallmarks of someone who is self-aware and wishes to make the most of the one wonderful life they have been given… and knows that by doing so, they become a light unto all others.
Set a standard, forge a destiny, claim your life.
Closing Quotes:
“If you don’t stand for something, you’ll fall for anything.” – Alexander Hamilton, 1755-1804
“The quality of a leader is reflected in the standards they set for themselves.” – Ray Kroc, 1902-1984
“If you don’t set your standards high, you will never know what you are capable of.” – Gordon Lightfoot, 1938-2023
“You have competition every day because you set such high standards for yourself that you have to go out every day and live up to that.” – Michael Jordan, b. 1963
As always, I share what I most want and need to learn. – Nathan S. Collier
Note: Every effort has been made to properly source any 3rd person material. I am, however, a voracious reader. If anyone finds any unattributed material, pls let me know asap and I will be delighted to give credit where credit is due.
“All intelligent thoughts have already been thought; what is necessary is only to try to think them again.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832