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UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE BANK

CONNECTING THE EDGES

This principle bank is a collection of principles organized by value/character skill (Corners) to assist you in identifying the specific thoughts (Edges) that you need to adopt to help you grow in that particular area.  While this is an extensive list, feel free to use these as ideas to fuel your own creativity and develop your own principles.  Again, you will select 4 principles for each corner.

GENERAL

  • Everything that happens is in my best interest and an opportunity to learn and grow

  • I don’t HAVE to, I GET to

  • Focus on what I can control

  • Life is 10% what happens to me and 90% how I respond

  • Reap what you sow

  • First things first

  • I always have a choice

  • Just because it's not important to me, doesn't mean it's not important

  • Thoughtful responses are better than emotional reactions

  • Everything happens for a reason

  • Things don't happen to me, they happen FOR me

  • Don’t let my emotions overpower my intelligence

  • I am always responsible for how I act, no matter how I feel

  • The truth isn’t diminished by the number of people who believe it

  • Let the light that shines in me be brighter than the light that shines on me

  • Give more than you take

  • Believe it until I become it

  • Stay relentlessly faithful to become abundantly fruitful

Principle Bank: General

BIBLICAL

  • Seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness and all of these things will be added to you - Matthew 6:33

  • Not my will but Yours be done - Luke 22:42

  • God has a great plan for me - Jeremiah 29:11

  • Trust God: Trust in the Lord with all of my heart and lean not on my own understanding – Proverbs 3:5

  • Do not copy the behaviors or customs of this world, but let God transform me into a new person by changing the way I think - Romans 12:2

  • And I know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him and are called according to His purpose - Romans 8:28

  • For God did not give me a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and self-control - 2 Timothy 1:7

  • Rejoice always, pray continuously, give thanks in all circumstances – 1 Thessalonians 5:16-18

  • Keep doing good for at the right time I will reap a harvest of blessing if I do not give up - Galatians 6:9

  • A man reaps what he sows (I get what I give) – Galatians 6:7

  • I can do all things through Christ who gives me strength – Philippians 4:13

  • God can do immeasurable more than I might ask or think – Ephesians 3:20

Principle Bank: Biblical
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