FOR A BETTER WAY TO LIVE (RULE TWELVE)

For a Better Way to Live

Never neglect the little things. Never skimp on that extra effort, that additional few minutes, that soft word of praise or thanks, that delivery of the very best that you can do. It does not matter what others think, it is of prime importance, however, what you think about you. You can never do your best, which should always be your trademark, if you are cutting corners and shrinking responsibilities. You are special. Act it. Never neglect the little things!

What makes a crystalline silver strand of one of the most coveted beaches here in the Philippines is it's sand composition – a single sand particle. This is where Boracay is known of. Every sand particle cooperates to give the beach a white crystal clear appearance.

They said man is the measure of all things. The little measure of praise you effortlessly give to a co-worker or to a kid each day might be a megaton worth. And a megaton of effort might be nothing to the one who doesn't care. But nevertheless, don't neglect little things even big things either for what is big and what is small but by the way you handle it.

Mother Theresa of Calcutta India said “we can do no great things, only small things with great love.”

It's not again in how big things you are doing, it is in how great is your love for what you are doing that makes sense after all.

What made Rolex expensive but the small parts painstakingly intertwined to produce the watch such as the OCSC (Officially Certified Superlative Chronometer). A very small mechanical part of the watch that took them a year to make a single unit not counting series of rigorous testing that makes Rolex of high quality watch at a very high price.

Now, what makes a man valuable more than any Rolex thing? It is no other than the (little) values he has developed under rigorous testing for many years. Cause what makes also gold a coveted metal but the every molecule that has been purified from impurities after series of firing from the furnace. Same thing, a man's value can only be tested on fire big or small.

Value is never applied in a world where lots of friends abide and comfort abounds, true value can only be tested outside of that comfort zone. True value is tested in the wilderness – in the jungle. Sometimes, your true character and values will surface once you are alone and nobody's watching.

Let me offer a poem from Douglas Malloch which presses on to the best thing that we can do not of how little or big we are:

BE THE BEST OF WHATEVER YOU ARE

If you can't be a pine on the top of the hill
Be a scrub in the valley--but be
The best little scrub by the side of the rill;
Be a bush if you can't be a tree.

If you can't be a bush be a bit of the grass,
And some highway some happier make;
If you can't be a muskie then just be a bass--
But the liveliest bass in the lake!

We can't all be captains, we've got to be crew,
There's something for all of us here.
There's big work to do and there's lesser to do,
And the task we must do is the near.

If you can't be a highway then just be a trail,
If you can't be the sun be a star;
It isn't by size that you win or you fail--
Be the best of whatever you are!

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INTRODUCTION

RULE ONE

RULE TWO

RULE THREE

RULE FOUR

RULE FIVE

RULE SIX

RULE SEVEN

RULE EIGHT

RULE NINE

RULE TEN

RULE ELEVEN

RULE THIRTEEN

RULE FOURTEEN

RULE FIFTEEN

RULE SIXTEEN

RULE SEVENTEEN