{"id":442,"date":"2016-10-17T09:49:20","date_gmt":"2016-10-17T09:49:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/muthu.co\/?p=442"},"modified":"2021-01-02T14:05:34","modified_gmt":"2021-01-02T14:05:34","slug":"book-summary-the-four-agreements-by-don-miguel-ruiz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/write.muthu.co\/book-summary-the-four-agreements-by-don-miguel-ruiz\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Summary &#8211; &#8220;The Four Agreements&#8221; by Don Miguel Ruiz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The First Agreement &#8211; Be Impeccable With Your Word<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Speak with integrity. Say only what you mean. Avoid using words to speak against yourself or to gossip about others. Use the power of your word in the direction of truth, of what is good, and what you want. Choose your words carefully in what you say to others, as well as what you say internally to yourself.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Second Agreement &#8211; Don&#8217;t Take Anything Personally<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Nothing others do is because of you. What others say and do is a projection of their own reality, their own dream. When you are immune to the opinions and actions of others, you won&#8217;t be the victim of needless suffering and worrying. You can simply say, &#8220;next&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Third Agreement &#8211; Don&#8217;t Make Assumptions<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Find the courage to ask questions and to express what you really want. Communicate with others as clearly as you can to avoid misunderstandings, sadness, and drama. You have to learn to ask for what you want with conviction and confidence. Others cannot read your mind. With just this one agreement, you can completely transform your life.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Fourth Agreement &#8211; Always Do Your Best<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Your best is going to change from moment to moment; it will be different when you are healthy as opposed to sick. It will be different from day to day. Under any circumstance, simply do your best and you will avoid self-judgment, self-abuse, and regret.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As you build the habit of the four new agreements, your best will become better than it used to be.&#8221; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The First Agreement &#8211; Be Impeccable With Your Word Speak with integrity. Say only what you mean. Avoid using words to speak against yourself or to gossip about others. Use the power of your word in the direction of truth, of what is good, and what you want. Choose your words carefully in what you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[53],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/write.muthu.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/write.muthu.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/write.muthu.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/write.muthu.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/write.muthu.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=442"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/write.muthu.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1626,"href":"http:\/\/write.muthu.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442\/revisions\/1626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/write.muthu.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/write.muthu.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/write.muthu.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}