Think back on a time when you successfully navigated conflict with someone. What worked and why? Did you use that approach in future conflict with that person?
If so, you are keenly attuned to the power of precedent, which is an event or action that guides subsequent circumstances that are similar.
Now, think back on a time when you established precedent as a coping strategy to avoid pain or suffering. To what extent did that precedent add productive value to your life in the short- or long-term?
In either case, precedent that leads to favorable or unfavorable outcomes is a reactive way to live because we become prisoners of the moment, trying to tap into those things that provide some semblance of relief.
There’s a better way.
The triumph of principle over precedent allows you to live an intentional life, a life that’s on purpose. You do this by honoring yourself, living a healthy life – physically, psychologically, emotionally, and spiritually, facing your fears, and learning from your mistakes.
This episode explores 4 approaches you can employ to live a principled life, a life grounded in principles rather than living in a reactionary way, which is, ultimately, more gratifying, and more fulfilling.
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