The Four Agreements: ALL PHARMA MANAGERS
The Four Agreements, first published in 1997, is Don Miguel Ruizs’ most influential work with sales of over five million copies in the US and it has been translated into thirty-eight languages.
Here are the four agreements you need to commit to transform your life.
1. The First Agreement: Be Impeccable With Your Word.
The first agreement is the most important one and also the most difficult one to honor.
It is so important that with just this first agreement you will be able to transcend to the level of existence I call heaven on earth.
It sounds amazingly simple, but it is very, very powerful.
Be Impeccable to your word is the first agreement that you should make if you want to be free, and if you want to be happy.
2. The Second Agreement: Don’t Take Anything Personally.
Whatever happens around you, don’t take it personally. Because nothing others do is because of you.
What others say and do is a projection of their own reality.
When you are immune to the opinions and actions of others, you won’t be a victim of needless suffering.
Consider this for example: Bob kept mocking Vivek as if he knew everything, when in truth he understood nothing. He spoke with confidence but no knowledge, and his insults said more about himself, rather than about Vivek.
When someone calls you “stupid” without knowing you, it is never about you. It is their own insecurity speaking.
If you feel hurt, it’s only because a small part of you wonders if they might be right, even when they are completely wrong.
Nothing other people do is because of you. It is because of themselves.
3. The Third Agreement: Don’t Make Assumptions.
We have the tendency to make assumptions about everything.
The problem with making assumptions is that we believe they are the truth. We could swear they are real. We make assumptions about what others are doing or thinking – we take it personally – then we blame them and react by sending emotional poison with our word.
That is why whenever we make assumptions, we’re asking about problems. We assume, we misunderstand, we take it personally, and we end up creating a whole big drama for nothing.
Ruiz says, “The way to keep yourself from making assumptions is to ask questions. Make sure the communication is clear. If you don’t understand, ask. Have the courage to ask questions until you are as clear as you can be and even then, do not assume you know all there is to know about a given situation. Once you hear the answer, you will not have to make assumptions because you will know the truth.”
4. The Fourth Agreement: Always Do Your Best.
Under any circumstance, always do your best, no more and no less.
But keep in mind that your best is never going to be the same from one moment to the next. Everything is alive and changing all the time, so your best will sometimes be high quality, and other times it will not be as good.
The Four Agreements are a summary of the mastery of transformation, one of the masteries of the Toltec (Mesoamerican culture). Don Miguel Ruiz shared this secret to everlasting happiness to the entire world with his book.