A personal favorite rule that I hope to live by.

#2 Golden Guide to Success: Speak Your Truth, Live by Your Values, and Act with Integrity

When we are authentic with what we believe, how we act, and who we share our lives with, we are being our truthful selves: we are able to be present and aware in our daily life, and we are able to bring our deepest creativity and passion and ability to the tasks in front of us.

Speak your Truth.
Live by Your Values.
Act with Integrity.

All of these mottos, to me, have to do with living our best life.... when we speak, live, and act authentically, a lot of energy that might go towards worrying, or covering up, or lying, or blaming, simply gets dissipated; instead, we have the ability to behave in alignment with our true self.

When we are our true selves, we shine!

My coach, Rob Seidenspinner of Sage Circle Coaching, recommends that all of us identify what our core values are (those values we couldn't live without). We then tally up how closely we are behaving in alignment with those core values. Speaking, living, and acting close to these values brings us closer and closer to alignment between our internal self and our external self, between our gifts and talents and the world's need, and between our abilities and our dreams.

May you always find your true self!