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What are your driving principles?

Eileen

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What are the beliefs or principles that you have that strongly influence all or most of the areas of your life?

Here are some of mine:

  • Take responsibility for your actions.
  • Recognize how your choices impact others.
  • Practice "unreasonable forgiveness" because screwing up is a constant. <--This notion is a driving principle, but one that I find difficult to uphold.
  • Be honest and tactful--but honesty should come first should the two conflict.
  • Recognize and affirm the potential of others (and self).
  • Be gentle and kind.
  • Allow people to make their own mistakes. <--another driving principle that is hard to uphold.


I'm sure I have more. That's just what I've got right now.
 

Mikesen

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My moral framework implies that the only sin one can commit is violating another person's life, liberty or property. I am still trying to develop a little more to let it fit in with my Marxistic tendencies, but we'll see.
 

GZA

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Right now it is to greater develop a sense of directed ambition, flow and purpose. I'm rediculously ambitious, I just don't have any ambition :doh:
 

Kiddo

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My driving principles are simply to enjoy life and to be true to who I am.

It's amazing how often just those two principles seem to conflict with each other.
 

Maverick

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Wait, I have to dig up my internal programming.

Brain:
cd\maverick program
edit principles.txt

Ah, yes. Here they are:

1) I am responsible for my actions, and you are for yours
2) You have the right to do what you want, but I have the right to like or not like it
3) If I'm the expert in something, shut-up and listen to me. If you're the expert, tell me about it
4) Lying is the best tactic, Honesty is the best strategy. It's hard short-term, but you reap the benefits later
5) Compete with yourself, never with others
6) A good fight is better than sweeping problems under the rug
7) You can't complain about injustice unless you do something about it

OK, there are loads more, but I ran out of memory...
 

ThatsWhatHeSaid

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I'm mostly guided by experience that lead me to feel peaceful and/or wise. That feeling breaks down into a series of principles/techniques:

Be honest and accepting of the truth.
- Allow flaws in yourself and others to exist.
- - Don't be afraid to show your limitations.
- Be caring and gentle with others, especially in expressing honesty.
Trust yourself.
Question everything.
- Never accept anything on the basis of authority, tradition, or popularity.
- Trust experience; trust logic.
- Stay curious.
 

Journey

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Keep it between the lines and try not to floor it.
 
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Dansker

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Some of mine:

- I am responsible for how I feel, you are responsible for how you feel. Similarly, no one can make me feel anything without my consent.
- I am responsible for my actions, you are responsible for your actions.
- If it doesn't feel right, it's probably not right.
- Practise compassion.
- Practise humility.
- Practise quietude.
- Practise restraint.
- Practise non-attachment.
- Do what you enjoy doing, and you will do it well.
 

bluebell

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I'm still working mine out, but the first three of Maverick's were very much me, so I copied them, with some edits.

I am responsible for my actions, and you are for yours.

You have the right to do what you want, but I have the right to like or not like it.

If I'm the expert in something, shut up and listen to me. If you're the expert, tell me about it (I'd prefer if this wasn't at my core, but I'm trying to be honest in this list).

Look at everything objectively, including the times when subjectivity is needed.

Practice introspection and question everything, including the need to question everything.

Aim for calmness in the long run.

Break down denial in myself by actively looking for it.

Underpinning all of these is detached observation and a goal of understanding, uh, everything.

I'm sure there's more, but that's all I can articulate at the moment.
 

rhinosaur

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Keep it between the lines and try not to floor it.

Damn, you beat me to it!
I was going to say:

Don't hit anything
Watch where you're going
Don't go too fast or too slow
Refuel as needed

That's like, deep, man.
 

Athenian200

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I try to live by these, but don't always succeed.

1. Avoid death and discomfort.

2. There is always something worth learning that I don't know yet, and every experience has something new to teach me.

3. Resist what you consider arbitrary/unacceptable by protest, but observe the rules while they exist.

4. Avoid being disliked by the majority of people.

5. Never unconditionally accept/trust people, but do so to the necessary degree.

6. Preserve ideas and information about them as accurately as possible, prevent them from being lost.

7. Try to understand and explain why you disagree with someone rather than dismissing them as wrong.

8. Avoid being arbitrary/unacceptable.

9. Try to be as thorough as reasonably possible in understanding/explaining something, rather than skimming and assuming you understand the "gist" without all the information.

10. Avoid behaving out of cruelty, vengeance, anger, despair, desire, or hatred.

11. Always forgive yourself for your mistakes and move on.

12. Try not to become so dependent on any particular people or things that it would be difficult for you to move on with your life if you didn't have them.
 

JustDave

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Don't be a dick.

From that one principle it all trickles down nicely into a cohesive whole.
 

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To be the "me" that God created me to be.

To grow in favor with God and man.

To do Christ's commandments because I love Him.

These include most notably for me:

To love the Lord with all my heart, with all my understanding and with all my strength, and to love my neighbor as myself.

To do unto others as I would have them do unto me

To forgive others (totally selfish motive).

To encourage others.

To comfort others with the comfort I have received.

To give to those in need.

To display love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control.

To respect my husband and other authorities.

To be ready to give answer for the hope that lies within me.

To defend the faith.
 
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MetalWounds

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-Freedom at any cost
-Every man/woman is responsible for their actions
-Thought without restraint or limitations
-Encourage others to think freely
-Live by one's own code, not what others force upon you
 

swordpath

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"I lost my number, can I have yours?" Whoops, wrong thread.

-Don't hurt those close to you, they're all you have
-Learn from mistakes

ehh, that's what I have off the top of my head.
 

cafe

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  • You're stuck with yourself. Might as well make the best of it.
  • Try to be as nice as possible.
  • But don't put up with people treating you bad.
  • Stick by your friends and loved ones.
  • Make the best of things. You can always find something good if you look hard enough.
  • Do what needs to be done in order to make things work.
  • Try to have a nice time.
  • What goes around comes around.

You might say my driving principles aren't very driven. :unsure: :D
 

Hexis

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1) Honesty
2) Loyalty
3) Honor
4) The right to pursue revenge if any of the above are broken.
5) Mercy for those who deserve it, not just out of sympathy.
6) Justice for those who violate anothers freedom.
7) And most importantly Friendship, and the companionship of any who would follow me in the pursuit of all the above.
 

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What are the beliefs or principles that you have that strongly influence all or most of the areas of your life?

Here are some of mine:

  • Take responsibility for your actions.
  • Recognize how your choices impact others.
  • Practice "unreasonable forgiveness" because screwing up is a constant. <--This notion is a driving principle, but one that I find difficult to uphold.
  • Be honest and tactful--but honesty should come first should the two conflict.
  • Recognize and affirm the potential of others (and self).
  • Be gentle and kind.
  • Allow people to make their own mistakes. <--another driving principle that is hard to uphold.



I'm sure I have more. That's just what I've got right now.

I share the exact sentiments
 

Nadir

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Main: Retain flexibility while staying cohesive. Have fun with contradictions.
Secondary: Forgive.
Secondary: Be honest and nice, but honesty comes first.
Secondary: Know first, judge second.
 
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