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The New Agreements in the Workplace

The Four Agreements provide interesting insights for living life and for succeeding in business.  Here is a summary of the basic principles:

THE NEW AGREEMENTS in THE WORKPLACE by David Dibble

1.  Find Your Path

As individuals in the workplace and in the world, each of us must find our own path to personal freedom and personal transformation.

If the release of the creative human spirit in the workplace is your passion, following a true (inclusive) path will accelerate the journey dramatically. A true path is a roadmap that includes proven practices, community support along the way, and possibly the gift of a true teacher. Most important, a true path will ignite in you a higher purpose for work based in love.

2.  Love, Grow and Serve Your People

The workplace can be thought of as a living being.

Workplaces are alive because they are made of people. To love, grow, and serve your people means loving, growing, and serving the living being we call organization. In loving, growing, and serving others, you love, grow, and serve yourself. This is true leadership.

3.  Mind Your Mind in the Moment

Science has been "looking" for the human mind for thousands of years with no success.

Your mind creates both your individual and organizational realities. To change yourself or your workplace, you must transform your mind. Awareness of the mind in the moment when life and work take place is a central practice to nearly every true path. With awareness, you can create heaven on earth in your workplace.

4.  Shift Your Systems

All organizations have structural components that we call systems.

Systems are the formal and informal policies, procedures, habits, and agreements that tell you how to do things in the workplace. They control about 90 percent of the results you create in your business or organization. To unlock your creative human spirit, you must shift from the fear and control that drive most workplace systems to an atmosphere of love and support.

5.  Practice a Little Every Day

Did you know that the space shuttle is off course approximately 97 percent of the time?

To make the New Agreements a reality, you must practice a little every day. As you practice, you will notice change. With regular practice, you become the New Agreements. As you move from doing to being, you become the unbridled release of your creative human spirit. This is true mastery.

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The Four Agreements

The Four Agreements provide interesting insights for living life and for succeeding in business.  Here is a summary of the basic principles:

THE FOUR AGREEMENTS by Don Miguel Ruiz

Be Impeccable With Your Word

Say only what you mean. The word is the most powerful tool we have as humans. Depending upon how it is used, the word can help us to become free or to enslave us. By practicing impeccability we can clear up communication problems, heal relationships, and create enough personal power to break our old limiting agreements.

Don't Take Things Personally

Each of us lives in our own personal dream, and what we say, what we do, and the opinions we give come from the agreements that we have in our own minds - they have nothing to do with anyone else. By the same token, others' opinions have nothing to do with us, so there is nothing to take personally. When we make the assumption that whatever happens is because of us, we continue to hurt each other and brood about what we call injustice. A huge amount of freedom is gained when we take nothing personally.

Don't Make Assumptions

We make assumptions when we think we know what others mean, or when we think they know what we mean. The problem with making all those assumptions is that we believe them as the truth, and we blame others for the assumptions that we make. We must have the courage to ask what another means, and the courage to say what we really mean. The day we stop making assumptions, we communicate cleanly and clearly, free of emotional poison.

Always Do Your Best

This agreement makes the other three possible. When we simply do our best -- not more and not less -- we avoid self-condemnation and we have no regrets. Although our best is always changing, we continually strive to do our best.