Respect Starts With Ourselves.

Doing More Of What Doesn't Work Doesn't Work.

A Goal Without An Action Plan Is A Daydream.

Most Of Us Are Taught From An Early Age To Pay Far More Attention To Signals Coming From Other People Than From Within. We Are Encouraged To Ignore Our Own Needs And Wants And To Concentrate On Living Up To Others Expectations.

Stressing The Practice Of Living Purposefully As Essential To Fully Realized Self-esteem Is Not Equivalent To Measuring An Individual's Worth By His Or Her External Achievements. We Admire Achievements-in Ourselves And Others-and It Is Natural And Appropriate For Us To Do So. But That Is Not The Same Thing As Saying That Our Achievements Are The Measure Or Grounds Of Our Self-esteem. The Root Of Our Self-esteem Is Not Our Achievements But Those Internally Generated Practices That, Among Other Things, Make It Possible For Us To Achieve.

In The Nature Of Our Existence, We Must Act To Achieve Values. And In Order To Act Appropriately, We Need To Value The Beneficiary Of Our Actions. In Order To Seek Values, We Must Consider Ourselves Worthy Of Enjoying Them. In Order To Fight For Our Happiness, We Must Consider Ourselves Worthy Of Happiness.