12 Rules for Life (Full) ENGLISH

learned to aim low, and to be patient. You are discovering who you are, and
what you want, and what you are willing to do. You are finding that the
solutions to your particular problems have to be tailored to you, personally
and precisely. You are less concerned with the actions of other people,
because you have plenty to do yourself.
Attend to the day, but aim at the highest good.
Now, your trajectory is heavenward. That makes you hopeful. Even a man
on a sinking ship can be happy when he clambers aboard a lifeboat! And who
knows where he might go, in the future. To journey happily may well be
better than to arrive successfully....
Ask, and ye shall receive. Knock, and the door will open. If you ask, as if
you want, and knock, as if you want to enter, you may be offered the chance
to improve your life, a little; a lot; completely—and with that improvement,
some progress will be made in Being itself.
Compare yourself to who you were yesterday, not to who someone else is
today.