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Now the reason we call this series guardrails, if you've been here, you know this,

is because the highway isn't the only place we need guardrails.

Our greatest regrets, I would bet, for most of us,

our greatest regrets would have and could have been avoided

if we'd had some financial guardrails, some relational guardrails,

some moral guardrails, some academic guardrails, maybe even some professional guardrails. And when we talk about a guardrails, some moral guardrails, some academic guardrails, maybe even some professional

guardrails. And when we talk about a guardrail in this context, it's basically a personal rule.

It's kind of a personal law. It's something that I decide for me. I don't decide for you because I

don't have any right to tell you how to live your life. But a guardrail is something I establish

for myself,

and it's essentially a standard of behavior that becomes a matter of conscience.

A standard of behavior that becomes a matter of conscience.

I decide that for me, financially, for me professionally,

for me when it comes to friends and, you know,

neighbors and relationships, when it comes to my marriage,

for me personally, I have a certain

standard I want to live by, and when I begin to drift toward that, the edge of that standard,

when I begin to drift out of bounds, it sort of lights up my conscience. In fact, that's the point

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