I am attempting to write down my philosophy for living here. I hope you will try to write yours. This is without thinking very long and hard about it.
First, I’ll say that the older you get, the more mature and wiser you get. Your philosophy may change as that happens.
Next, there are so many dimensions of life, that I decided to create individual sentences to address different ones. Compartmentalization is my specialty in such endeavors anyway.
1) An extraordinary life of shared experiences. (That is my personal mission statement).
2) My life will never outperform my character.
3) Do it now. Life is short.
4) Be nice to people. It will make things much easier.
5) People, including myself, have much more potential than they are using. Endeavor to bring it out of them.
6) Freedom is most important for people to thrive. Talk about it, protect it, and defend it.
7) Step in front and be a leader. As a leader, you are a steward of others. Do not fail them.
8) Take “risks”, but don’t be reckless.
9) Help and serve others by using the gifts you have been given. That’s why they were given to you.
10) The best way to make a better world is to be a better person, and to take care of your family first.
11) Spend less than you make and invest the difference, no matter how small.
12) Turn your talent into skill and skill into achievement with continued effort.
13) Tune out voices that will not help you, and tune into voices of value as much as possible.
14) Just because everyone, or a lot of people, are doing it, doesn’t make it right. I’ll decide how I behave.
14) How high and far can I go? I’ll keep going and find out. It’s a long game.
Without writing a book, and spending fifteen minutes on it, this is what I have.
What is in your philosophy?
Doing the right thing is always the hardest..
Don’t take the path of least resistance
This is quite awesome and worthy sharing,truely I feel motivated to start thinking of my phylosophy for living..
Just like Jim Rohn so many years ago… Once I found you I keep saying, where has this guy been all my life. Thank you for helping me to think deeply.
The highest frequency you can operate on is Love and Authenticity. Share Love and be yourself because God’s gifts are inside of your most authentic and loving version. Give grace and gratitude.
Larry – I admire and appreciate your clarity on who you are and what you want to do.
If you can’t do everything at once, do something at once.
If we had some ham, we could have some ham & eggs, if we had some eggs.
Happy is the man whose wife is his lover and whose lover is his wife.
I am working hard on number 11 of your life philosophy, I have to say it’s more difficult when you’re incomes is limited, but it’s still the right thing to do. Thanks for your words of wisdom
Why does all of his words make me cry??
Thank you…you genuinely give me inspiration and motivation.
This is a great list Larry! I like it a lot. It closely resembles my list. I have a couple that are a little different that are important to me. Being a Christian I am trying to live for the next world more so then for this one. Nothing contradiction to what you have. Also I seek knowledge and wisdom from those who excel in areas that I deem important but my benchmark is not how well I am doing relative to someone else, but how am I doing towards that goal/objective compared to where I was at the day before.
Love your daily posts and look forward to reading them each morning. Thank you for doing this.
Great words Larry, and I know you truly practice what you preach. I would add- do all the above with kindness.”Kind people are the best kind of people”.
I am happy I signed up for your daily blog. Great information, some that I already know and some new. I will probably use some of this wisdom in my monthly meetings if you don’t mind. I look forward to completing the SOE courses as soon as I get my one last licensing thing taken care of. Thank you for the continued knowledge sir.
My Philosophy in life
Be useful, stretch myself to be better in everything I do, but not stretch myself too much to sacrifice my happiness. I want to be surrounded by a loving family, and friends.
Family: to express my me deepest need to love and be loved and to continue my legacy,
Friends: like minded friends to expand my deeper understanding of things, and to enjoy the journey.
A journey of always growing in knowledge and spirit, and wealth to enable me to do more… although wealth is not fundamental, it is basically an expression of my usefulness…
I love this!! All of this!
Over the past seven years of coming to Connecticut and interacting with you I can say I’ve seen you live these values. You are one of the most consistent people I have ever met. I appreciate you and all you do!
Thank you Larry!
That’s a really good list! I enjoyed reading the comments others left as well. I especially like John Kirkley’s, “Happy is the man whose wife is his lover and whose lover is his wife.”!
I look at life very long term and, as Michael Mitchell above, even into the next world. My overall goal for life is to “Do things that will matter for those around me now and for those in the future.” I believe that what we do now affects the future for many generations and so I first strive to raise good children who will also have a positive impact on the future. This is like an investment. You put in a little now and get a huge return in the future. I also donate to several Boys and Girls homes/clubs/ranches. I believe that our future is dependent on our youth and we will not have a good future if we don’t have good youth. My heart breaks for the many children out there who don’t have good homes, good educations, good parents, teachers, coaches, peers, etc. While these children could still go far, as evidenced by people like Dr. Ben Carson, the statistics say that theirs will be a hard life. How much better would the world be if every person had at least one other person that loved them and cared for them deeply? My philosophy is to do everything in my power to make life better for everyone around me, everyone I come in contact with, everyone I work with and those I work for so that they in turn will hopefully do the same for others. Doing so will pay off in huge dividends as Zig Ziglar said, “You can have everything in life you want, if you will just help other people get what they want.”