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Four Agreements (Part 6): Always do your best
We wrap up the series on The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz. These are powerful agreements – life changing agreements. They’re as good as we allow them to be. They’re only good if we agree to them and practice them in our daily lives. Agreement Four is: Always do your best! Under any circumstance,…
Four Agreements (Part 5): Don’t make assumptions
You know what happens when you assume! Often, we just assume wrong and it may not be pretty. However, if you assume I am continuing with our series on Don Miguel Ruiz’s The Four Agreements, you are absolutely right! The Third Agreement is: Don’t make assumptions. Let me remind you of the first two agreements:…
Four Agreements (Part 4): Don’t take anything personally
I’ve been eager to continue our conversation from last week on the third of The Four Agreements from the book by Don Miguel Ruiz: Don’t Take Anything Personally. When we left off, we had been talking about how freeing ourselves from other’s inaccurate opinions of us, from their emotional garbage, can ease our need to…
Four Agreements (Part 3): Don’t take it personally
This is part three of my series on The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz. Today, we’re going to talk about the second agreement: Don’t Take Anything Personally. Let’s remember the first agreement: Be Impeccable with Your Word. These agreements are powerful – they’re as powerful as we let them be – and they’re even…
Four Agreements (Part 2): Be impeccable with your word
This is part two of my series on The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz. In this column, I’d like to look at The First Agreement: Be impeccable with your word. Breaking that down it means, “Speak with integrity. Say only what you mean. Avoid using the word to speak against yourself or to gossip…