Author: Chuck Lucas

I am the Editor and Founder of https://principlesneverfail.us/ a blog dedicated to principle centered personal development. The social, intellectual, physical, and spirtual challenges facing individuals and the communities in which we live in 2020 and beyond will require the best that is within us. True principles anchor us to the truths previously discovered. We can move forward into the future with confidence on the correct path if we do not forsake the truths we already know. My over 50 year quest has been to discover true principles and seek to understand and strive to apply them in my life. My hope is that some of what I have found may be of value to my family, friends, and to you.

Systems over Goals

Don’t tell me what you want to accomplish, tell me “how” you’re going to do it.

“Systems people succeed every time they apply their systems, in the sense that they did what they intended to do.” Scott Adams

View of Earth from Saturn via @NASA

See the source image — View from Saturn 900 million miles away

Success is neither magical nor mysterious.

“Success is neither magical nor mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying basic fundamentals.” — Jim Rohn

Stay consistent

“Do what most people don’t, stay consistent.” —Darren Hardy

Why change?

“We generally change ourselves for one of two reasons: inspiration or desperation.” — Jim Rohn

Kindness has unlimited upside.

Compliment others more. You’ll barely remember you did it, but the other person may never forget that you did. —James Clear

Be a a light to those around you.

“Be a a light to those around you. Be the source of love and care you are hoping to receive from others.” — Bonnie H. Cordon

Opportunities will come

I believe opportunities will continue to come into my life because I expect them.

A Christmas Prayer

True principles are not easy to live

“While easy to find, true principles are not easy to live until they become an established pattern of life. They will require you to dislodge false ideas. They can cause you wrenching battles within the secret chambers of your heart and decisive encounters to overcome temptation, peer pressure, and the false allure of the ‘easy way out.’ Yet as you resolutely follow correct principles, you will forge strength of character available to you in times of urgent need. Your consistent adherence to principle overcomes the alluring yet false lifestyles that surround you. Your faithful compliance to correct principles will generate criticism and ridicule from others, yet the results are so eternally worthwhile that they warrant your every sacrifice.” — Richard G. Scott