This document provides a philosophy for living a more fulfilling career and life by focusing on being generous, expert, trustworthy, clear, open-minded, adaptable, persistent, and present. Each of these traits is then defined in one or two sentences, with generous meaning focusing on others in a sincere way, expert meaning always improving one's skills, and trustworthy meaning doing the right thing even without supervision.

1. Simplify Your
Future
My Philosophy

2. Want more from
your career and
life? Live by this
sentence…

3. Be generous and expert,
trustworthy and clear,
open-minded and adaptable,
persistent and present.

4. Generous
means
to focus on
others…
in a sincere and
giving manner.

5. Expert means to always do your
best, and never stop getting better.

6. Trustworthy means do the
right thing, even when no
one is looking.

7. Clear means
to know what
you want and
communicate
it effectively.

8. Open-minded means
no matter how expert
you become, never
stop listening and
learning.

9. Adaptable means to keep
your options open, so that
when the world surprises
you, it won’t be that
surprising.

10. Persistent means to keep
trying until you get what
you want.

11. Present means to see the
details of life as they
unfold.

12. Be generous and expert, trustworthy and clear,
open-minded and adaptable, persistent and present.

13. Created by Bruce Kasanoff. Learn
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