If you expect improvement in the quality of your life, deliberately transform your decisions and actions. Cast a vision for yourself and press on it.
If you are a “100%” person, 90% is hard to
accept. If you are an “80%” person, 90% calls for a celebration.
Setting standards is not bad. It is neither
harsh nor limiting. Rather, it allows us to freely choose on the array of
better set of actions we have pre-determined before the cloud sets on top of
our heads.
Standards lead us to get or land on what we
want out of this good life. Standards enable us to sail with stability in the
midst of storm of trials and to maneuver with direction on the fork of
confusion.
What would be harsh is if you drown
yourself on sadness or disappointment if you don’t get what you set yourself to
achieve. But life isn’t as cruel as many of us think it is.
Shortcomings, loss, disappointments, and
others sorts of pain are there to make us feel uncomfortable and prod us to
desire to feel better and determinedly strive to become better.
If you lose an important thing in your
life, grieve, feel the pain… but not too long, that you drown yourself in tears.
We always have a decision. Everyday we are
given the opportunity and privilege to make our own choices that we deem best
for ourselves—sometimes for self-preservation, other times simply as a response to our desire to become better in terms of health, relationships, career,
finances, skill, etc.
Standards are there to guide us; to provide
us with a concrete handle to grip on as we push towards our goals, our desires.
Choices are there to allow us to freely act upon our set standards; to permit
us to have a little tightening here and loosening there in times we feel or
think it best to adjust the sails toward our goals.
Cast vision for yourself! Press on it.
Set standard on how you must live your life
so you can optimize your gifts and resources and live a full life.
Live a balanced life by making the right
choices.
Be brave! Worry not. You always have a
choice on how to act upon your goals and respond to the accompanying
challenges.
Direct your actions toward a certain goal.
Focus your energies to your priorities. Systematize your actions. Breakdown
overwhelming tasks.
Not only for our goal-setting and lifestyle
that we can set standards, but also on whom to follow and be with.
We can choose either to be with someone who
gives us tears or bring us joy; who stagnates us or who empowers us. We can
choose a leader who acts upon the common good or who acts upon the stale
principles of his party. We can choose whom to obey, the one who intoxicates us
with sin or the one who died on the cross for us to be saved.
Set a standard so you can discern and
choose the right things when faced with life-changing circumstances.
But whatever standard we put up, I encourage
you to consider five things:
1 -To make what honors and
glorifies God your core
2 -To regard only the things which
bring good to most people
3 -To be constant in your journey
on the path of uprightness, no matter how uncomfortable the trip may be
4 -To remain grateful and hopeful,
knowing God is at work in your life everyday
5 -To act responsibly, no matter
what you choose to get or act upon on
If you expect improvement in the quality of
your life, deliberately transform your decisions and actions.
Change only happens through series of
actions, not through words. Go make a choice and act upon it! If you are
determined, you can do it!
Set a standard, and make a choice that is
rooted in it.
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