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     %WISE DECISION ROLE MODEL RESPECT ADMIRE HONOR+940415
     %IDEAL VALUE GOAL PURPOSE TECHNIQUE COMPETENCE 940415

     In what way may we wisely decide what people  to most
respect, admire, honor and support as our most worthy role
models?  Upon what shall we focus?

    1.  Their declared ideals, values, goals, purposes?

    2.  Their  previous  accomplishments  and their formal
demonstrations of technical competence?

    3.  The  level  of understanding which  they  have  of
theories of cause and effect relationships?

    4.  How  well  they have fulfilled our own  and  other
people's expectations of them?

    5.  How reliable they are in doing what they say  they
will do?

    6.  How  reliable they are in accomplishing what  they
say that they will accomplish?

    7.  How effectively they fulfill the spirit and letter
of   relevant  rules,   regulations,   requirements,   and
policies.

    8.  How  well they bring about the effects which  they
intend to bring about in their relationships with others.

    9.  How open and honest they are in relating to  other
persons?

    10.  How consistently they treat others as expressions
of one cosmic being?

    11.  The  depth  of their spiritual life  and  web  of
inter-relationships?

    12.  How freely they enter into personal relationships
and    let    others  be   themselves   within    personal
relationships?

    13.  Their   level   of   personal    integrity    and
contributions to communal integrity?

    14.  Other considerations?

    The  kind  of life we live and how our lives affect us
and  others  depends  profoundly   upon   how  we  respond
(consciously  or  unconsciously)   to the above  kinds  of
questions.     Often   we  give  such   questions   little
consideration, and talk about them even less.

                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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