TRAIL OF TEN TRUTHS

2 IDEAS FROM ME

• The Trail of Ten Falls in Silver Falls State Park, Oregon is like a Trail of Ten Truths. Both trails enhance your life.

• Trail of Ten Truths

  1. Life is finite and precious. Give your best energy to people, experiences, and contributions that matter.

  2. You control your response to life, not life. You control your attention, interpretation, choices, and actions not circumstances, other people, uncertainty, or aging. Accept the reality of what is happening and choose your response in harmony with your true nature and highest values.

  3. You become what you repeatedly practice with daily habits of attention, thought, emotion, and behavior. Design your habits around who you want to become.

  4. Uncertainty, imperfection, and impermanence are fundamental properties of the human experience. Learn to act courageously while uncertain, accept imperfection without surrendering excellence, and savor the moment because it will change.

  5. Deepest meaning comes from living your values. Identify your highest values and use them as a decision filter.

  6. You must take radical responsibility for yourself and recognize radical interdependence upon others. Develop yourself while becoming increasingly generous, compassionate, and useful to others.

  7. Pain is inevitable. Unnecessary suffering is often optional. Accept reality without resistance and decide what constructive action you can take in harmony with your highest values.

  8. Love becomes real through understanding, kindness, and compassion to create spiritual growth, peace, and life-enhancing connections. Ask yourself each day whether the people closest to you experienced you as someone who genuinely cared about them.

  9. You are a evolving process of 10²7 atoms of consciousness forged in the belly of exploding stars. You have the power to change your understanding, skills, relationships, habits, worldview, character, and contributions throughout your life. Have the courage to act and the humility to revise.

  10. Ultimate meaning flows from contributing your unique verse. Clarify what that is and apply your signature strengths to make it happen.

2 QUOTES FROM SAGES

• “If you want to awaken all of humanity, then awaken all of yourself.”—Lao Tzu

• “The first principle is that you must not fool yourself—and you are the easiest person to fool.”—Richard Feynman

1 QUESTION FOR YOU TO EXPLORE

• If you had an experimental growth mindset regarding the Trail of Ten Truths, what would you do differently tomorrow morning?

Namaste,

Duane Nelson