Just do your best – in any circumstance in your life. It doesn’t matter if you are sick or tired if you always do your best there is no way you can judge yourself. And if you don’t judge yourself there is no way you are going to suffer from guilt, blame, and self-punishment.

Regardless of the quality, keep doing your best – no more and no less.

Be impeccable with your word: The human mind is like a fertile ground where seeds are continually being planted. The seeds are opinions, ideas, and concepts. You plant a seed, a thought, and it grows. The word is like a seed, and the human mind is so fertile!

Do not make assumptions: We make the assumption that everyone sees life the way we do. We assume that others think the way we think, feel the way we feel, judge the way we judge, and abuse the way we abuse. This is the biggest assumption that humans make (and it is wrong).

We have to be what we are so that we do not present a false image.

Doing your best, you are going to live your life intensely. You are going to be productive, you are going to be good to yourself, because you will be giving yourself to your family, to your community, to everything.

Excerpts taken from the book “The Four Agreements” by Don Miguel Ruiz