Guiding Principles

1. Clear Self - Boundaries

2. A Clear Thinking Inner Guidance System

We will make better decisions.

We will have better coping behaviors.

We will experience less anxiety.

We will become less concerned with what others think of us.

We will grow in our emotional maturity.

We will function better in every arena of life.

Guiding principles help us take responsibility for our own self-esteem.

Guiding PrinciplesInternal

Well Thought Out

Clear

Compelling

What are your beliefs, your values, your priorities, your purpose, & the

principles you want to live your lifebased upon?

Guiding principles must be truly “owned” by you.

Don’t hold on to principles that were passed onto you without evaluating them for yourself.

MENTAL MODELSOur beliefs and assumptions about how

the world works.

Turning the mirror inward, learning to unearth our internal pictures of the

world,to bring them to the surface, and hold

themrigorously to scrutiny.

Surfacing – Testing – and Improving our internal pictures of how the world works.

Establishing guiding principles is a process that takes time.

Guiding principles aren’t rigid. They are capable of changing as

new data becomes available.They should be evaluated

periodically.

We must have quick & easy access to our guiding principles in times of

high anxiety.

Guiding Principles are not clear until they are written down.

1. Some Guiding Principles might speakto your vows.

2. Some Guiding Principles might speakto the lies you believe about yourself.

3. Some Guiding Principles might speakto your shame/self-esteem.

4. Some Guiding Principles might speakto issues of self-diff erenti ati on.

5. Some Guiding Principles might speakto your mission in life.

Often guiding principles are found in the people we admire.

“Keep company withme and you’ll learn

to live freely and

lightly.”

Jesus the Christ

“The greatest issue facing the world today is whether those who are identified as ‘Christians’

will become disciples.”

“But before Christianity was a rich and powerful religion, before it

was associated with buildings, budgets,

crusades, colonialism, or

televangelism, it began as a

revolutionary nonviolent movement

promoting a new kind of aliveness on

the margins of society.” 

Guiding principles are what you will be known for and remembered by.

Guiding Principles are declarations of faith.

Guiding Principles

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