Sticking to your principles will mean upsetting the apple cart.
Forgetting how you look will lead you to sometimes be shunned.
Forgetting physical possessions will leave you sometimes feeling destitute.
But if you know yourself truly, if you know your goals, you know what you want and
you know the principles you want to live by... then you will know the right things to
do and you should have the strength to do them.
And that means living with the consequences.
And that is the last lesson I want to impart upon you: be willing to face the music. Be
willing to put yourself out there, take risks and then face the flack that comes your
way. This all follows on from the lessons on stoicism, minimalism and fear that we
have already considered. But it is highly important.
As soon as you learn that sometimes you’ll get things wrong – and you accept and
learn to deal with the outcome – you’ll find that you become a more decisive and
more efficient individual.
People who are afraid to make the wrong choice and who don’t want to upset
anyone will never be able to make decisions. They’ll always be on the fence and they
will lack conviction.
That’s not you. You are a warrior and that means you need to follow your own path
and face the consequences as a mature adult.
You will ask for forgiveness and not permission. And if you don’t get it? As long as
you have done what’s right by you , then you forge ahead anyway.
You are the warrior.