Your standards are the list you post. Your behavior is the list you live. Compare them sometime.

REFLECTION

WHAT THIS MEANS

There is the version you announce and the version you operate. Standards are easy to state and usually accurate as a description of what you admire, which is not the same as what you do on a tired Wednesday. Most people never set the two side by side, because the comparison is uncomfortable and nobody requires it. Doing it voluntarily is most of what growing up consists of.

Write your three stated standards on one side and last week on the other. Resist adjusting the standards to make the gap look smaller. Pick the widest gap and close it a little, which is enough to begin with.

A QUESTION TO SIT WITH

Which standard do you announce but not actually keep?

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