The Anyway Challenge (aka The Paradoxical Commandments)

The Paradoxical Commandments
by Dr. Kent M. Keith


People are illogical, unreasonable, and self-centered.
Love them anyway.

If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish ulterior motives.
Do good anyway.

If you are successful, you will win false friends and true enemies.
Succeed anyway.

The good you do today will be forgotten tomorrow.
Do good anyway.

Honesty and frankness make you vulnerable.
Be honest and frank anyway.

The biggest men and women with the biggest ideas can be shot down by the smallest men and women with the smallest minds.
Think big anyway.

People favor underdogs but follow only top dogs.
Fight for a few underdogs anyway.

What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight.
Build anyway.

People really need help but may attack you if you do help them.
Help people anyway.

Give the world the best you have and you'll get kicked in the teeth.
Give the world the best you have anyway.

These commandments had greatly inspired and were adopted by people like Mother Teresa. I'm not a Mother Teresa nor do I wish to be one. I don't know why, but I was a little encouraged after hearing these commandments the other day. I guess it's about finding a personal meaning and purpose in a crazy world. Going against the flow kinda thing. But a more apt title for me would be "The Fools Commandments", for fools like me who need to hear them, maybe more than once ;)