In each line of this list, I see attributes of Girl Scout Leaders.
The Secrets of Success
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- is enjoying, never bemoaning whatever effort a work requires.
- is doing things not merely because they are popular, but because you deeply believe in them.
- is non-attachment to results; doing your best at the moment, and letting the results take care of themselves.
- is enthusiasm!
Without it, nothing worthwhile was ever achieved.
- is asking yourself always, not, "What do I want to see happen?", but rather, "What is trying to happen here?"
- is seeing your work primarily as a service to others, and not as a means of personal gain
- is blaming no one when things go wrong, but doing whatever you can to improve matters.
- is being crystal clear as to your purpose and directions, and having the courage to act accordingly.
- is seeing every setback as a stepping stone to ultimate achievement.
- is welcoming as opportunities whatever obstacles confront you.
- is developing your will power, by setting yourself increasingly difficult goals, and persevering until each of them has been achieved.
- is being more energy-oriented than goal-oriented; seeing life in terms of constant progress, not of pre-established ends
- is daring to step outside the boundaries of conventional wisdom.
- is the ability to concentrate one-pointedly on whatever task you set yourself.
- is viewing every day as a fresh beginning, bright with promise, and never defining yourself in terms of past accomplishments.
- is not limiting your self-identity to present realities, but expanding it to include your highest potentials.
- is willingness to re-evaluate your first principles.
- is ensuring that the outcome of everything you do be harmonious by acting always with a positive, harmonious attitude.
- is asking yourself in anything you do, not merely, "What would people like to have?" but, "What would I feel happy giving them?"
- is openness to the truth, no matter by whom it is uttered.
- is a preference for the truth over mere opinion - even if the opinion be your own.
- is consulting your inner feeling before making decisions; never doing a thing, whatever reason tells you, unless your heart concurs.
- is never making emotional decisions, but maintaining your heart's feeling in a calm state of reason.
- is being solution-oriented, not problem-oriented, and having faith that, for every problem, an inherent solution exists.
- is being grateful for what you have, however little, and not resenting life for what it hasn't given you.
- is not making excuses for yourself when things go wrong, but reflecting that God alone is infallible.
- is understanding that you are the final measure of everything you accomplish. For that work alone is noble, which ennobles its creator.
- is meeting challenges by remaining calmly centered within, and seeking strength and guidance intuitively, in your inner self.
- is attuning your limited human will to the infinite divine will.
- is humility; realizing that pride is the death of wisdom, and the paralysis of every worthwhile endeavor.
