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SELF-RESPECT & KEEPING YOUR WORD – A BELL CURVE

This week’s CHART focuses on SELF-RESPECT & KEEPING YOUR WORD

For some odd reason or another, I have discovered that individuals that are all show and no go have the most followers. While the individuals that keep their word find themselves as the odd-man out. Strange.
Strange indeed!

How must it feel to be an individual living life as a someone who talks a good game but delivers nothing on those words.
We all know someone like that, someone who promises the moon and cannot deliver dust. Yet, they continue delivering their pipe-dreams and making unfulfillable promises.

Most peculiar is that the individual that keeps their word is one the most scrutinized when they deliver on their dreams or fulfill their promises. How dare they keep their word?

This is where and when those that keep their words start to separate themselves from the rest of the pack. With great consistently delivering on what you say you are going to do, will move you to the ABOVE AVERAGE level of life.

As I have unswervingly stated time and again, improving on yourself will positively impact your level of SELF-RESPECT.

Thus, while it may make you unpopular (because those that fail to keep their word do not like those that do keep their word as it makes them look bad. But then again, your SELF-RESPECT is all you have to worry about. That is, if you have any to begin with.

Yet, if you want to have some SELF-RESPECT, my advice to you: KEEP YOUR WORD & FEEL GOOD ABOUT YOURSELF.

I am DAVID GUERRA and I said this.

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GETTING FOOLED ONCE & THEN TWICE – A CHART

This week’s CHART focuses on GETTING FOOLED ONCE & THEN TWICE

Whether it be young age, lack of knowledge, not enough wisdom or whatever the reason may have been WE have ALL been fooled at least once in our lives. Typically, this happens when we are in childhood, when we are most naïve and vulnerable.

Being fooled by others is essential to making us the people we are today. On occasion we need to be fooled by others. You could say it is almost a rite of passage into adult life. Being fooled is part of how we as humans gain wisdom. It is also part of how we grow as human beings. It helps sharpen our senses of self-preservation and makes us more observant about everything around us. Being fooled helps to put us “on guard” for the unsuspected events in our future.

However, what is NOT a rite of passage is allowing ourselves to continually be fooled by others. It is plain and simple extrapolation: The more you continue to allow yourself to get fooled, the more your chances of getting fooled again and again increase.

Once the word gets out that you are an “easy target” because you continue to get fooled the more opportunistic individuals will not only come out of the woodwork but the more, they will try (and succeed) to fool you again.

Most times, no one knows when the next time they will be fooled will occur. However, there are tell-tale signs such as when an offer seems too good to be true or you are being offered an outrageous amount of money only after you pay a “processing fee” or better still the individual(s) that fooled you before comes back to do it again. All which you willingly allow.

Of course, if you recognize that a certain type of individual or situation is returning then understand that it is up to you to do something about it. Either stop the situation from escalating or move yourself out of that situation. Know that when you REFUSE to change the situation, you WILL end up getting fooled again. Then there is one person to blame (NOT the one that fooled you) but the blame rests 100% on YOU.

Remember to old adage, “Fool me once shame on you. Fool me twice shame on me.”

Don’t get fooled again.

I am DAVID GUERRA and I said this.

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THE RIGHT THING WHEN NO ONE IS WATCHING – A BELL CURVE

This week’s BELL CURVE focuses on THE RIGHT THING WHEN NO ONE IS WATCHING

Throughout our lives we have been told to do the right thing especially when no one is watching.

We should always do the RIGHT THING. While doing the right thing is always the right thing to do no matter if there is an audience or not.

There are far too many people that will do something good only when others are watching. Those people that seek an audience before doing the right thing do so for any number of reason and I can understand some of them.

Having an audience is proof that you did the right thing. I get that.

Having an audience can confirm that you did what you said you were going to do. I get that.

Having an audience watch you do the right thing for the applause, the accolades, that I do not get nor understand. While it is nice to be recognized for doing something nice, if that is the ONLY reason you do what you do then please check yourself.

By checking yourself, I mean check your SELF-RESPECT levels. I mean look deep inside yourself to see why you MUST have an audience.

Some individuals will demand to outsiders that they do NOT need an audience when doing what is RIGHT. Yet, they will either go out of their way to ensure someone “accidentally” sees them do the right thing and when no one is around to “accidentally” see them they try again later (at a more convenient time for the audience).

See, when the time comes to do the right there is no better time than present. However, being stuck in a mindset of “needing an audience” does nothing to improve the RESPECT you have for yourself. There are countless RIGHT THINGS BEING DONE on a daily basis that you will never hear about because those doing the RIGHT THING WHEN NO ONE IS WATCHING do so because to them (and only them) it is the RIGHT THING TO DO!

I am David Guerra and I said this.