Guiding Principles 1 Clear Self Boundaries 2 A

Guiding Principles

1. Clear Self - Boundaries 2. A Clear Thinking Inner Guidance System

We will make better decisions. We will have better coping behaviors. We will experience less anxiety.

We will become less concerned with what others think of us. We will grow in our emotional maturity. We will function better in every arena of life.

Guiding principles help us take responsibility for our own self-esteem.

Guiding Principles Internal Well Thought Out Clear Compelling

What are your beliefs, your values, your priorities, your purpose, & the principles you want to live your life based upon?

Guiding principles must be truly “owned” by you. Don’t hold on to principles that were passed onto you without evaluating them for yourself.

Our beliefs and assumptions about how the world works. Turning the mirror inward, learning to unearth our internal pictures of the world, to bring them to the surface, and hold them rigorously to scrutiny. Surfacing – Testing – and Improving our internal pictures of how the world works.

Establishing guiding principles is a process that takes time.

Guiding principles aren’t rigid. They are capable of changing as new data becomes available. They should be evaluated periodically.

We must have quick & easy access to our guiding principles in times of high anxiety.

Guiding Principles are not clear until they are written down.

1. Some Guiding Principles might speak to your vows.

2. Some Guiding Principles might speak to the lies you believe about yourself.

3. Some Guiding Principles might speak to your shame/self-esteem.

4. Some Guiding Principles might speak to issues of self-differentiation.

5. Some Guiding Principles might speak to your mission in life.

Often guiding principles are found in the people we admire. “Keep company with me and you’ll learn to live freely and lightly. ” Jesus the Christ

“The greatest issue facing the world today is whether those who are identified as ‘Christians’ will become disciples. ”

“But before Christianity was a rich and powerful religion, before it was associated with buildings, budgets, crusades, colonialism, or televangelism, it began as a revolutionary nonviolent movement promoting a new kind of aliveness on the margins of society. ”

Guiding principles are what you will be known for and remembered by.

Guiding Principles are declarations of faith.

Guiding Principles

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