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Live By Your Own Rules:
Learn to Create Your Personal Guiding Principles
Free Worksheet Below
Abi Egbeyemi
Personal Guiding
Principles are a set of rules you have chosen to live by. Personal
Guiding Principles help you make and stick by your decisions and actions. They help
you make sense
of your life. Your Guiding Principles become ingrained in you so that
you never doubt yourself when you feel backed against the wall by other people’s opinions.
An excellent example of guiding principles
can be found in a great book by Don Miguel Ruiz, called The Four
Agreements. His book includes four amazing guiding principles:
Be impeccable with your word, don't take things personally, don't make
assumptions, and always do your best. You can choose to use
these four and add a couple more or just create an entirely set for
yourself.
Use your guiding principles to
protect yourself from people that believe they know what is best for
you. Use them as a guide to keep you on
track. Whenever you are not living or honoring your guiding principles
it will be reflected in your life, simply go back to review your
principles, and get right back on track.
To create a set of guiding
principles, you can choose those that already exist in your
religion, your favorite spiritual literature, or create your own. Your
guiding principles can be: I will not cheat. I will finish what I
start, and my favorite, "I choose to love myself." I have faith in God and
I choose to form my own opinions about everything.
Anything can be a guiding
principle as long as you use them to create more stability in your
life. You use your guiding principles as a guide to help you navigate
though life. Your principles give you more confidence, for example I
choose to stand behind everything I say and I don’t need to justify my
stance.
Do Something
List your guiding
principles, next to each one write what they mean to you and how you
would use them. Then ask yourself, “Can I build a solid foundation for
my life with these guiding principles. Note: you can add or remove
guiding principles when you find more that will work for you or remove
those that don’t work for you. Use the free Levnow Worksheet
Creating Guiding Principles to help you with this exercise.
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Guiding Principles Worksheet (PDF)
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