Not always meeting others’ standards doesn’t mean having low standards or no standards at all. No! What you must do is create and live by your own standards.

We’ll look at what stops people from setting high standards, why standards raise your status and how to set them.

People value what they invest in, and to value yourself you must invest in high standards you set.

Setting high personal standards can be a challenge because it implies: personal commitment, belief, action, and facing the risk of failure.

Satisfaction in the present moment is important because you’ll always be in some new present moment. It will always be now, now in the future will be the present moment then.

Of course you have preferences and aspirations for better things—those things will stem from what works well right now.

What accepting s ...