The Patriot's Creed by Kris Paronto

Author:Kris Paronto
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Center Street
Published: 2019-10-21T16:00:00+00:00

“Trying to Be a Better Version of Myself”

“I have failed way more often than I have succeeded,” Ben told me cheerfully, “and I used to look at all the times in my life when I came up short and feel bad about them. But today I look at the disappointments as events that happened to me and I know that, without them, I wouldn’t be where I am today.”

Ben wrote down everything that was important to him and made a list of things he wanted to work on. “I’m learning to judge myself based on how I am doing today compared with where I used to be instead of measuring myself against anyone I know or some stranger on Instagram.

“I’m just trying to be a better version of myself. For example, I realize that I wasn’t always patient with my children when they were little and I was in so much pain. I’m always going to be working at being a better parent, and I feel like working toward that also makes me a better person. I look at that list often, and every day I do something to improve an item on that list.”

Ben is still guided by the principles of the Ranger Creed. “If you apply the Ranger Creed to the rest of your life, you’ll be all right,” he said. “If you do that, you will give 100 percent and then some to everything you do.”

For Ben, that means doing more than what is expected of him at all times, and it doesn’t have to be a massive change. “If you are told to clean the toilet, go ahead and clean the floor around the toilet as well,” he said. “You can apply that principle to the way you take care of yourself, and it doesn’t have to be massive: when you go to the gym, if you push yourself to do one more set or one more rep than you said you were going to, you’ll be better for it.”

Ben thinks a lot about the last lines of the Ranger Creed: “Readily will I display the intestinal fortitude required to fight on to the Ranger objective and complete the mission though I be the lone survivor.”

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