Be great in act, as you have been in thought.

A private standard is easy to maintain because nothing ever tests it. You can hold a generous, brave, clear-eyed version of yourself in mind indefinitely, and it costs nothing until a situation asks for that quality in public and at inconvenient expense. The distance between the inner version and the acted one is where most disappointment with ourselves lives.

Take one quality you are confident you possess. Find the situation this week that would genuinely require it, and go into that situation rather than around it.