Habits - Banish the word fine. Refuse to settle.
Banish the word fine
Why are your goals on the back burner? Maybe because of the F-word: “fine,” says motivational speaker Mel Robbins. That dirty word lulls you thinking that subpar situations — feeling unfulfilled at work, carrying an extra 50 pounds, having a ho-hum relationship — are good enough that you can put off the effort to change them.
It’s time to stop settling for “fine” and set your sights on “good” or “great” instead.
Refuse to settle
There are two kinds of settling:
- Settling for less than what you deserve. This results in people losing a lot of respect in the social circle because this kind of settling shows that they don’t respect themselves. And no one respects the person who doesn’t respect themselves.
- Settling for less than what you want. It’s when you settle for what you deserve, but it’s not what you actually want.
Highly respectable people very rarely settle for less than what they deserve. And if they want something that they don’t currently deserve, they put in the effort to improve themselves to the point that what they want turns into what they actually deserve. And then they get it.
There are a lot of subtle aspects to earning people’s respect. But at the core, it all comes down to this:
Take actions that make you respect yourself and, in turn, people will respect you.