Personal Intentions

My intentions are to:

1. Treat others and myself with respect, kindness, and unconditional positive regard.
   
2. Live healthy and happily, expressing and encouraging greatness from myself and others, striving for excellence, balance, harmony, and goodness in all that I do, and fully actualizing my time, talents, and spiritual gifts for the benefit of all.
   
3. Work for more freedom of choice and expression in the conduct of my life and in the lives of others, and for the responsible exercise of those freedoms.
   
4. Write and speak out openly, clearly, forthrightly, and in a manner that is truthful, meaningful, and uplifting.
   
5. Encourage acts of kindness, creativity, beauty, goodness, tolerance, benevolence, cooperation, courage, humility, justice, mercy, and generosity.
   
6. Travel often, easily, and safely being welcomed, respected, and cared for with due regard, while respecting all people, their heritages and environments, and abiding by their laws and customs.
   
7. Learn or experience something positive or uplifting from every person, place, or situation encountered.
   
8. Give freely, lovingly, quietly, and appropriately from my abundance and encourage others to do likewise.
   
9. Promote freedom and democracy, defend the rights of all living beings, human or otherwise, and help resolve disputes or disagreements judiciously, fairly, expeditiously, and mercifully.
   
10. Support laws, policies, initiatives, businesses, programs, projects, personal acts, or artistic expressions that today are manifestations of the Spirit of Democracy embedded in the United Nation's Universal Declaration of Human Rights (http://www.un.org/Overview/rights.html), as well as advocates or testaments of that Spirit to future generations.