Lots of times we hear of goals like, I want to lose 30 pounds, I want to get a new computer, I want to get a degree… these are all great and wonderful, but have you ever made a set of goals that will develop over a lifetime? Such as I want to show patience to everyone around me, I don’t want to think a bad thought about anyone, even someone who insults me. These types of goals are much more rewarding when they are achieved, and they help us to lead happier lives. I challenge you to make a list of your goals, your behavior goals. Here’s mine:
- I will be a friend to the friendless and find joy in ministering to the needs of the poor.
- I will visit the sick and afflicted and inspire in them a desire for faith to be healed.
- I will teach the truth to the understanding and blessing of all mankind.
- I will seek out the erring one and try to win him back to a righteous and a happy life.
- I will not seek to force people to live up to my ideals but rather love them into doing the thing that is right.
- I will live with the masses and help to solve their problems that their earth life may be happy.
- I will avoid the publicity of high positions and discourage the flattery of thoughtless friends.
- I will not knowingly wound the feeling of any, not even one who may have wronged me, but will seek to do him good and make him my friend.
- I will overcome the tendency to selfishness and jealousy and rejoice in the successes of all the children of my Heavenly Father.
- I will not be an enemy to any living soul.
- Knowing that the Redeemer of mankind has offered to the world the only plan that will fully develop us and make us really happy here and hereafter I feel it not only a duty but a blessed privilege to disseminate this truth.