Daily Motivator - May

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May 11

High standard

Hold yourself to a high standard. Don’t make it an impossible standard, but don’t let it be too easy either.

Remind yourself frequently of that high standard. But never speak of it to anyone else, at least not in so many words.

Instead, let your actions, your results, your priorities do the speaking. Express your high standard in the life you live, in the love, and value, and joy you give.

Take your high standard into consideration when making decisions small and large. As you grow in wisdom and experience, look for how you can raise that standard.

No one has a flawless concept of what makes life good, but you have some pretty good ideas from your own life and others. Codify those ideas into an intentional, specific standard that can nudge you to live in the ways you know are best.

Give yourself a good, honest and reasonable standard to optimize your own choices and viewpoints. Keep that standard at the front of your mind, from where its benefits will spread to every corner of your world.

— Ralph Marston