It’s Never Your Duty to…
July 12, 2010
“What Your Responsibilities are Not” from ‘The Secrets of Mental Magic’ by Vernon Howard
It’s never your duty to:
1. Give what you really don’t want to give
2. Sacrifice your integrity to anyone
3. Do more than you have time for
4. Drain your strength for others
5. Listen to unwise counsel
6. Act above your present capacity
7. Retain an unfair relationship
8. Be anyone but exactly who you are
9. Be one-hundred percent perfect
10. Conform to unreasonable demands
11. Follow the crowd
12. Put up with unpleasant situations
13. Try to please unpleasant people
14. Bear the brunt of another’s misbehavior
15. Do something you cannot really do
16. Endure your own negative thoughts
17. Feel guilty towards your inner desires
18. Submit to overbearing conditions
19. Apologize for being yourself
20. Meekly let life pass you by