The Anyway Challenge

This blog is two fold today.  First, I would like for you to read the Paradoxical Commandments and then I am going to ask you to take the Anyway Challenge.

The Paradoxical Commandments
by Dr. Kent M. Keith


People are illogical, unreasonable, and self-centered.
Love them anyway.

If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish ulterior motives.
Do good anyway.

If you are successful, you will win false friends and true enemies.
Succeed anyway.

The good you do today will be forgotten tomorrow.
Do good anyway.

Honesty and frankness make you vulnerable.
Be honest and frank anyway.

The biggest men and women with the biggest ideas can be shot down by the smallest men and women with the smallest minds.
Think big anyway.

People favor underdogs but follow only top dogs.
Fight for a few underdogs anyway.

What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight.
Build anyway.

People really need help but may attack you if you do help them.
Help people anyway.

Give the world the best you have and you'll get kicked in the teeth.
Give the world the best you have anyway.



I UNDERSTAND THE PARADOXICAL COMMANDMENTS AND I ACCEPT
THE ANYWAY CHALLENGE
This is my pledge to live the Paradoxical Life.
I will love people anyway, do good anyway, succeed anyway, be honest and frank anyway, think big anyway, fight for a few underdogs anyway, build anyway, help people anyway, and give the world the best I have anyway.
I WILL FACE THE WORST IN THE WORLD WITH THE BEST IN MYSELF.
Signed: _______________________ Date: _________