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aspects of your life. This is the Game Change Your Life podcast with Dave Anderson.

Welcome to the Game Change Your Life. I'm Dave Anderson in our Agora Hills, California studio.

And I want to talk to you today about high standards aren't hype, and you shouldn't

apologize for them. You know, standards aren't vain either. It doesn't make you arrogant or vain

to have a high standard for yourself, high expectations in any or all of your life arenas.

Now, it does cross a line, I'll say, if those high standards

cause you to look down on others, maybe because they haven't figured it out, or their standards

aren't as high, as we've talked about before, the biggest and only real legitimate comparison

is you versus you. Don't get into that comparison trap. But I see a lot of people

get talked out of high standards by people without high standards. Because the people without high

standards are a little uncomfortable around the people with the high standards. So rather than

raise their standards, they try to elevate themselves by lowering

someone else's, if that makes sense. And so if you're a person, and I believe a lot of you are,

who listen to these episodes, have high standards for yourself, and you're looking for ways to

continue to raise them, or maybe you have them in a couple areas of your life, but you slack a little and others,

and so you're wanting to expand, okay, those high standards into other areas of your life

because you don't want to have high standards be something you turn on and off,

depending on which of your life arenas you happen to be in.

You just want it to be on all the time.

Then let me just share some thoughts to encourage you, to continue to do them, to maintain them, to raise them, not to compromise them,

not to lower your standard to accommodate somebody else's comfort zone.

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