Dad’s Axioms For His Boys

Keep yourself physically fit because life is hardest when you are not up to the challenge

When making a decision: study it out, decide, act, and then assess because you don’t know until you try

Strive to learn every valuable thing you can because there is great pain when life lessons come unlearned

Develop clear handwriting because others judge us by our handwriting

Treat all your family members as your most precious and priceless possession because... they really are

Call on the Lord and Repent because repentance brings peace and joy

Serve more - play less because true happiness comes through those we serve

Honor and delight in womanhood because God does the same

Plan your work week in detail and then work your plan because working you plan brings purpose and satisfaction to your activities

Honor the Priesthood because God has shared with you an immense responsibility to do good

Take the harder road because the easy road is crammed with traffic

When stuck - gather resources because you will learn that you were never truly stuck at all

Learn from history and the mistakes of others or you will become the lesson that others learn from

Keep friendship in perspective because friends are temporary

Listen to uplifting music because Both God and Satan use music to inspire

Prepare for the best career, profession, or business you possibly can because life is very expensive

Remember that you are a spiritual being having physical experience and not the other way around

The core of who you are is wonderful and precious - it is our experiences in the world that convince us otherwise

Return and report because few others will

Allow yourself to lead because you really do know the way

Conserve and save for a rainy day because you never know when you may need to buy a rowboat

In all things measure twice and cut once because you can not grow a board even an inch

Be known for service, hard work, honesty, virtue, and intelligence because that is an elite club membership

Be in the world but not of the world because God has called you to be is peculiar people

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Larry Farris is a White House trained sales and persuasion coach.