Why You Should Never Settle

Never settle for second best. For not doing your best. For the box being ticked and nothing more.

Never settle for poor quality. Never settle for a few extra minutes in front of the TV and a job half done. Never settle for the convenient at the cost of your health, happiness and healing.

Never settle on your principles, on your ethics, on your beliefs.

Never settle on your path, your purpose and your passion.

Never settle for the material and the cost of the higher things.

Never settle for what someone else thinks you should want.

Never settle for safety and security at all costs. Never settle for how you treat other people and how you make them feel. Never settle for how other people treat you, and how you live in and with them.

Never settle for the easy path or the shortcut or the quick buck.

Never settle for just being — push yourself to be more.

Never settle for a “life hack” in place of a life lived.

Never settle for success if it doesn’t include happiness.

Never settle.

[This post by Jon Westenberg first appeared on Medium and has been reproduced with permission.]

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