A PRESIDENT’S TEST

It doesn’t matter the President, for credibility's sake.

Mr. Dilenschneider reports on a life test made popular by a somewhat unpopular President.

You write out on a piece of paper the three or four qualities in life that are important to you. Put the paper aside and review them a few days later, after some reflection.

Then make sure whatever you do “gives you” these qualities.

However, these qualities have to come from yourself, not from other’s, or you’ll be trying to live up to someone else and end up going nowhere in particular.

So, from the time you awake, to the time you go to sleep, you must live these qualities in order to become happy.

The Boy Scouts always seemed to have gotten this part right. Does anyone remember their motto: “A Scout is Trustworthy, Loyal, Helpful, Friendly, Courteous, Kind, Obedient, Cheerful, Thrifty, Brave, Clean and Reverent.” The get the idea. Use any of these, for example,

Maybe there are just a few too many of these life quality motto-words for an individual to remember, but your Blogster still does - - forty years later. Can you remember and implement yours after thinking about a few for a few days? This is a powerful tool of the powerful, he claims.

(The President? Did you guess correctly? Richard M. Nixon! Don’t try quoting him at your next party without some really good reason to do so, this book perhaps, but prepared for stimulating conversation. Maybe don't get into becoming Powerful and Influence - - most people don't react well to your bold expression of these somewhat offensive goals, as understood by the general public.)