WHAT YOU BELIEVE IS WHAT YOU BECOME!
PRINCIPLES FOR PERSONAL GROWTH, CHANGE, PERFORMANCE, AND TRUE SUCCESS IN OUR LIFE AND SERVICE TO OTHERS SO WE CAN BECOME ALL WE CAN BE, PERFORM AT OUR BEST AND LIVE AT PEACE IN OUR WORLD.
 
“This is the way the world works, this is the way it makes sense.”

That little ditty that I used to teach a group of high school students in a class exploring the philosophies of the world that men and women seek to live by.  I explained that our song was a way of reminding us all what the great thinkers were trying to help us figure out.  Mainly, how does the world work?   And what do we have to know, understand, and do to live well, be successful, and to finish our lives well.  It is hard to believe that that class was taught nearly a quarter century ago, but the questions and the song still persist.
Part of work at The PTM Group is to continue the eternal but always specific quest that each of us must go on; we must discover, and apply the “open secrets of true success.”  I would like to share with you some of what we have discovered and seek your consideration and response to what we call the principles of growth, change, performance, and development.  In the following articles, I will outline ten of these principles.  I belief that these principles not only are important but essential if we are to live well.  I do not believe that these things are a matter of opinion.  We cannot vote on these principles.  We can only be aware of them, seek to absorb them, be fully engaged in the positive part of them, and then enjoy the fruitfulness that will come to us.  I believe that men and women who are successful lead principle-based lives and seek to align their life and will with those things that make for a life well lived. 
As you go through these, I invite you to consider them, to think about them, respond to them, and, most importantly, develop those principles and priorities that are important to you as you seek to be more effective, improve your performance, and to be truly successful.

Stan Hustad
 
 

PRINCIPLES FOR PERSONAL GROWTH, CHANGE, AND TRUE SUCCESS IN OUR LIFE AND SERVICE TO OTHERS

 

How to become all we can be and live at peace in our world.
(Click the principle for a description of each principle.)

1. All lasting change comes from deep personal change.
 
2. We need to assume full responsibility for our lives, our performance, our relationships, and how we respond to what happens to us.
 
3. Our human experience is full of paradox.  We must seek to understand its power and embrace it’s mystery. 
 
4. The universal principal of cause and effect works in our life to carry us forward or to bring us down.
 
5. The way we think and the way we talk profoundly influences the destinies we reach, the performance we achieve, and the success we enjoy.
 
6. The search for and the discovery of purpose and meaning in our life and work are fundamental to successful living, personal growth, and positive change. 
 
7. Successful living based on purpose, achievement, and joy requires us to be grateful, forgiving people.
 
8. Successful living requires that we have the courage and faith to take action in the presence of our fears.
 
9. Successful living, managing our time and money, making the changes we want, and achieving our goals requires that we know what we value and what we want.
 
10. We all have to serve somebody.  We are hardwired for service to others.