“Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Have the courage to do the right thing because it is right.” – W. Clement Stone
You no doubt have skills and talents that differentiate you from your fellows, but if you have not yet mastered the three abilities outlined above, it is unlikely that your life will ever amount to much.
Every man has his purpose in life. Every woman hers. You have a purpose, but you cannot come to terms with that purpose if you lack the courage to say no, to face the truth or to do the right thing because it is right. If you have not yet made the acquaintance of your purpose, stop where you are and take a stand in relation to one of the three faces of courage described here.
So doing opens the channels, that is, clears the way for purposeful, meaningful and valuable living.
Gregory Hake 
What is the point of living a life without purpose? You should either be looking for your purpose or living it. And when you find your purpose, you have to have the courage to embrace it. You can’t be one of the perpetual seekers of truth that never finds it. You have to find it and achieve it.
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Powerful sequence to follow in order to begin to get anywhere close to knowing and living our purpose. Love it!
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The courage to say no, to face the truth and do what is right does open the way for purpose to take hold and be established in us. Here is the gateway through which an open space is known for vision and fulfilling steps to be taken.
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Excellent points!
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Thanks!
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Great starting points for living life from the inside-out. Thank you.
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There’s no better way to live. In fact, there’s no other way.
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You might not become popular but you’re right! When your loyalty is to your purpose you can do all of these. As a result your purpose becomes easier to distinguish from the noise, clearer to identfy. I ‘d say a self fullfilling prophecy.
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Who ever said life was a popularity contest? It’s better to be right than popular.
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These appear to me to be obstacles of character – boundaries, honesty and integrity. Everyday we are ‘tested’ in a sense, where things come up in our life, simple mere circumstances, that challenge our character. Bad habits formed in the way we meet these challenges can make something relatively simple into a nightmare of confusion and disorientation. Seeing the simplicity of it all is a first good step in redirecting your life’s course I would say, and perhaps the windmills in our lives can be scaled down to size and dealt with once and for all for what they really are.
Another beautiful note in the symphony of conscious living – good day!
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