“Do the right thing, do the best you can, and always show people you care.” --Lou Holtz
Do the right thing! While I have not counted, it is probably the most
repeated phrase in Marcus Aurelius’ timeless Meditations. Robert
Kennedy used to always tell his kids at the dinner table, be guided by
principles, not ambition. We get blinded by ambition. Lose sight of our
values. Principles. Virtues. As we look at the prize. Win at all costs. That
phrase could not be more off the mark because if we compromise our
principles and values to “win”, we lose. We may think we have won a
battle, but we lost the war with ourselves. I am not talking about flat out
cheating like performance enhancing drugs in sports, we know that is
wrong. I mean bending even on the “little things” and thinking the end
justifies the means. It does not. In the end, all we have is our character
and reputation. More to the point, how we feel about ourselves. We
must always peer into the window of ourselves. In the mirror. Stare at
ourselves in the mirror and we better love what we see staring back at us.
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