People's need for success, and their drive to gain achievements and prove themselves, is what leads them to take steps and adopt behaviors that set them apart from others and carry them toward a goal. It also means focusing on sound principles that you trust and rely on throughout your life, when making important decisions and in your daily dealings. You can adopt agreed-upon rules and place your trust in them.
Let us now turn to the rules you can regard as personal rules, which you can rely on each day to achieve success and progress in your life, based on your trust in each one.Rule 11: Trust yourself to be your own guide and adviser
- No one knows the details of your life the way you know them in your subconscious mind.
Rule 12: Build your capacity to bear burdens and to work diligently
- When people stop doing their duties, you can motivate them to work and change them by taking the initiative and engaging through your communication.
Rule 13: Face your fears and turn them into confidence and boldness, and keep your alertness up so that you are not caught off guard by shocks and surprises.
- What always keeps you from stepping forward is not responding immediately toward a solution and not dealing with people's resistance to you. If you overcome your fears, your energy will persuade people and draw them in.
Rule 14: Make your goals achievable, or let them go if they are not achieved
- There is no harm in letting go of something important if you cannot reach it and believe you cannot obtain it.
Rule 15: Do not focus on mastery; care about your performance and your results
- Every task you do is important and useful even if you cannot do it perfectly. It is enough that you work and keep going, and you will reach mastery.
Rule 16: Remember that you always live in the present moment, and it is the only one that matters.
- The only reality you should care about is the reality of the present.
Rule 17: See the present as your real world, and strengthen confidence in yourself and in your presence in the present
- If you live in the past, your past becomes your present, and you will find yourself a prisoner of it. To be able to feel your life, always keep your attention on the present.
Rule 18: Do not rush ahead into the future unless you are confident of your steadiness in the present
- Haste, hurry and escaping the present will not let you achieve success in the future. Your success in reaching the future needs a confidence that springs from you in the present.
Rule 19: Keep your determination alive from within, continuously.
- Determination does not mean stubbornness; it means continuing to try, moving past mistakes, being flexible in changing your approach and skills, and trying alternatives.
Rule 20: Set limits and a wall around your personality, for you need independence.
- The walls around you do not stop you from approaching people, nor do they make you feel a distance between you and others; they limit people's interference and their negative energy.
