Leaving your hand on the scale
In life, it’s just better to do what’s right. There is a principle of fairness that has existed since the creation of mankind. I know what’s right. You know what’s right. I know how to treat people. You know how to treat people. Why? Because we are people.
Any time I try to keep from doing what I know to be the right thing to do, or when I make excuses about not doing the right thing, or I pretend that I don’t know what the right thing to do is, I am placing my hand on a scale to favor it in my direction.
And that’s not fair.
Life was not meant to be lived like that, and behaving in that manner is a major roadblock to significance in life.
It is not fair to seek significance in life by doing something that is weighing the scales in your favor at the expense of somebody else. A significance bought with such actions would be no significance at all.
So we have learned about twelve roadblocks to significance. I’ll close with this thought. As I have been writing these—reading, studying, evaluating myself—there are times when I get in the midst of it all and I realize how much yet there is to learn, apply, and get good at.
I would not want any of you to leave these pages thinking, “Wow! I’ve got 12 roadblocks on my pathway. I don’t know if I can ever make it.” No. I want you to leave these pages today thinking this: “There are roadblocks on my journey to significance in life and now I am a little bit more aware, and therefore, I can travel that much better on my journey.”
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