How to Live a Principled-Centered Life

Focusing your life on a particular structure has heavy downsides. Like focusing on friends, material possessions, parents, education and move will fail if you focus in. You cannot pretend here; because you would be in the nearest future.

We are familiar with the effects of gravity. Throw a ball up and it comes down. It is a natural principle. Just as there are principles that rule the physical world, there are principles that rule the human world.

Principles are not religious. They are not based on nationality or race. They are not mine or yours. They are not up for discussion. Principles apply equally to everyone, male or female, rich or poor, famous or obscure.

They can be bought or sold. If you by them, you excel. If you break them, you will fail. It’s that simple.

Talking about principles that govern the human race, one is referring to personal attitudes developed, structured, and controlled by you and no one else. These principles are honesty, service, love, hard work, gratitude, respect, moderation, fairness, integrity, loyalty, responsibility and more. There dozens more. They are not hard to identify. Just as a compass always points to true north, your heart will recognize true principles.

For example think about the principle of hard work. You may be able to scrape by using short cuts and faking it for a while, but eventually it will catch up to you.

I remember one time being invited to play in a golf tournament with my college football coach who was a great golfer.

Everyone, including my coach, expected that I’d be a fine golfer as well. After all, I was a college athlete and all college athletes should be great golfers. Okay!

Wrong. You see, I barely play golf. I’d only played a fee times in my life, and I did not even know how to hold a club properly. I was nervous about everyone finding out how bad I was at golf. Especially my coach.

So, I was hoping that I could fool him and everyone else into thinking I was good at it. On the very first hold, there was a small crowd gathered around. I was the first to tee up off. Why me? I said to myself as I stepped up to hit the ball. I prayed for a miracle. Surprisingly, it worked! A miracle I could not believe it. I had hit a long shot straight down the middle of the fairway.

I turned around and smiled to crowed and acted as if I always hit like that. Thank you very much, they said to me. I had them all fooled. But I was fooling myself because there were 171/2 more holes to go.

In fact it took only five more shots for everyone around me, including my coach, to realize that I was a complete golf sham. It was not long until the coach was trying to show how to swing the club. I’d been exposed. And that is how it will happen to anyone who wants to fake a skill.

You can fake playing golf tuning, a guitar, or speaking a foreign language if you have not paid the price to get good at.

There is no way around it. Hard work is the principle. As NBA great Larvy Bird puts it, if you do not do your home work, you won’t make your free throws.

Among all the things you can depend on like parents, school, boyfriend, girlfriend, work, self, possessions, sports, hobbies and more, principles never fail. It takes faith to live by principles especially when you people close to you get ahead in life by cheating, indulging, manipulation, and serving only themselves. What you don’t see however, is that breaking principles always catches up to them in the end.

Take for example, the principle of honesty. If you are a big liar, you may be able to get by for a while, even a few years. But you’d be hard press to find a liar who achieved success over the long haul. As Cecil B. DeMille observed about his classic movie The Ten Commandments “it is impossible for us to break the law. We can only break ourselves against the law.”

Online all other centres we can imagine, principles never fail. They will never do any of the following: gossip behind your back, move away from you, suffer career ending injuries, play favorite based on skin, color, gender, wealth or appearance.

A principled centered life is simply the most stable, immovable, unshakable foundation you can build upon, and you need one of those.

To gasp why principles always work, just imagine living a life based on their opposites:

Dishonesty, laziness, indulgence, ingratitude, selfishness and hate. I cannot imagine any good thing coming out of that. Can you?

Ironically, living a principle-centred life is the key to excelling in all other centres. If you live the principle of service, respect, love, gratitude, and hard work for instance, you are likely to pick up more friends and can be more stable boyfriend or girlfriend.

Putting principles first is also the key of becoming a man or woman of character. It is impossible for you to break the law. You can only break yourself against the law. Decide today to make principles the core centre of your life. Ask yourself what principle is in play in any situation you find yourself. For every problem, search for the principle that will help you solve it.

If you are feeling worn out and beaten up by life, perhaps you should try the principle of balance. If you discover that no one trusts you, the principle of honesty might just be the cure you need. Of all the centres to depend on, principle-centred will never frustrate you.

The next time you are in tough situation and don’t know what to do, ask yourself, “WHAT PRINCIPLE SHOULD I APPLY? You may need to apply honesty, love, hard work, loyalty, patience and more to get out of this difficulty. This how you can improve yourself and go through life with ease.

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