TLC Application January 4, 2012 “A Way Of Life”

What is your greatest asset? Most people answer this question by pointing outward — to their skills, their network, their savings, their reputation. But there is a deeper answer. Your greatest asset is not something you own, achieve, or perform. It is something you carry within you: the principles, the code of conduct, the way of life that guides you through everything that happens — the thick and the thin, the abundance and the lack, the joy and the loss. Once you discover this, everything changes.

Your Greatest Asset Is Inside You

Think about this deeply: what is our greatest asset if it is not ourselves? That is a deep thought — one we should all contemplate as making it a truth. How do we make the recognition that the greatest asset in our life is what is inside of us? Not “me” in the ego sense, but what is inside of me? We realize it by living it. By recognizing, “No matter where I go, the greatest jewels that I have lie within me.”

Those jewels are a way of life. They are spiritual principles that have guided the greatest minds in the world — principles that have accumulated and gone further than the people who wrote them, who are no longer alive. Now the question becomes: can we take these truths and make them even greater? Is it not our time to take what was passed to us and build on it?

A Code of Conduct for Every Human Being

The truth is this: live a way of life that is a good life, and do not assume that you know what that is. You must learn what it is. To learn a way of life, you need a code of conduct. Something we all should have. Something that every person could relay to another person — the basic code of conduct they live by, why they live by it, and where they got it. Every human being should have their own code of conduct.

Imagine the world we would live in if we were truly our greatest asset because of the code of conduct we have adhered to, which has created a life we never thought was possible — and it seems to be getting better all the time.

Trusting in that process — “I am okay right where I am at” — is difficult. But it must be the ability to be happy today while building a better tomorrow. Better relationships. Healing yourself to recognize what a better relationship looks like, so that is all that fits. Nobody else has to change. You change. Because when you have a way of life, and you recognize that when you change, everyone around you changes. They may not actually change — but the way you look at them changes. And when you look at somebody differently, they act differently, talk differently, and feel differently about you, because you are different.

Do You Have a Code of Conduct?

Sometimes you need to sit back in life and wonder: “Do I have a code of conduct?” Do you have a way of life that can guide you through thick or thin? And if you do not have one, look at how you have been navigating life without one. A code of conduct creates order. It creates discipline. It creates structure. When you lose structure, order, and discipline, your life becomes unmanageable. Maybe that is why people feel so lost — something is missing. And it has always been said that the something that is missing is a message that everybody can have, that everybody can live by, that is understandable by every person. The benefits start right now.

If you want a greater life, then you have to find greater information and knowledge than what you have got. Or you are not living the best life that you can. It may be worth reaching out for something that can give you that.

A Message That Belongs to Everyone

A true way of life should make you understandable by everybody. If it is a good way of life, everybody should understand it. No race, creed, color, social status, or economic position can block you from this message. The only thing that can block you is pride and ego that says “I do not need this” before you even know what it is.

If someone is bold enough to say “This is a Way of Life” — a code of conduct that makes you feel good about the world you live in, that anyone can understand and apply — that is worth exploring. The message is organic. It is alive. Anyone who touches it becomes a lifeline of it. That is why it is such an extraordinary thing. It belongs to everyone who is willing to receive it.