The 4 Agreements: 4

Steps to a happier state of

mind
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By: Andrew K. Martinez
Title/Captions: The 4 Agreements, A Practical Guide to
Personal Freedom

Narration: “Throughout life, you may have imposed upon

yourself, self-limiting beliefs that society may have brought onto you
through its members’ standards ideas of success. But why do you
put these limiting beliefs upon yourself? Why do you, a fully capable
and competent member of society choose to doubt yourself? Is it
because you truly don’t think you can meet society’s standards or
norms, or is it simply because society’s standards are not in
alignment with your values?”
Dramatic Question: “If that’s the case, how can you
overcome these social standards and norms to live a happy and
meaningful life that is full of your own personal freedom, not
society’s?”

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Dramatic Question
presentation on the book by Don Miguel Ruiz” fade in blow it.*
Title/Captions: “The 4 Agreements”
Narration: In 1997 an author by name of Don Miguel
Ruiz published his book: The Four Agreements that was
widely praised by critics and shined light upon by Oprah
Winfrey in her Super Soul Sunday series. The Four
Agreements is described as a self-help book and is said to
promote personal growth and development. The Four
Agreements’ as Author Don Miguel Ruiz describes are: Being
Impeccable with your word, Never take anything personally,
Don’t make assumptions, and the last and most important
agreement, ALWAYS DO YOUR BEST. This short video will
take a deeper look at the first two of the agreements and
examine what they mean.

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Intro
Title/Captions: What is an Areement?

Narration: First, we’ll start off by asking ‘what is an agreement’? Well, the book
describes the rules and societal norms that have been placed upon each and every one of us
as an agreement(s). For example, while we are growing up some parents may have told their
daughters to sit, stand, or walk a certain type of way because it was considered lady like or
polite. Others may have told children to be physically tough or strong based off the belief that
‘strong’ people do better in a society. Universities teach us how to act professionally and what
the best cookie cutter ways of conducting business are. As humans we are prone to take
information that has been given to us by our parents as well as our peers and agree on it
these agreements may sound something like: yes - it is better to be physically strong and
athletic, yes - it is polite for a lady to sit like this, yes- that is the best was to conduct a
profitable business along with how to act while conducting it. These are all Agreements that
we know as rules, and norms that we have “agreed” to abide by in order to be well received in
our society. In his book, Don Miguel explains that we should abandon these ideas /
agreements and instead follow a simple 4 agreements guide to a simple and happy life.

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Identify what an Agreement is

Title/Captions: Being Impeccable with your word

Narration: The first agreement is to Be Impeccable with

Your Word. What does that even mean? Let’s take a look at
what the word Impeccable means…. Google describes the word
‘Impeccable’ as: behavior, performance, or appearance in
accordance with the highest standards of propriety; faultless.
Synonyms include: Flawless, faultless, unembellished, spotless,
stainless, untarnished, perfect, exemplary, ideal.
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Title/Captions: Don’t Take Anything Personally

Narration:Ruiz Identifies the second agreement as “Don’t take anything

personally”. This agreement stems from the previous agreement. An example of this
agreement with “If I see you at work and tell you; ‘Hey, I saw your report, and I think
it’s the stupidest report that I have ever read.’ without knowing you or how much work
you put into it then it’s not about you it’s about me. If you take it personally and decide
to agree with that statement, then maybe you think you’re not confident in your
abilities at work or you don’t think the report is very good.” If that is true then you are
violating the first agreement, as you are not being impeccable with your word because
you are using the power of the word and letting others use the power of the word
against you. Ruiz says that “Taking things personally is the maximum expression of
selfishness because we make the assumption that everything is about ‘me’”. Nothing
other people do is because of you. It is because of themselves. You cannot be held
accountable for the actions and thoughts of others, but you can hold yourself
accountable for your own thoughts and actions.
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Narration:For the sake of time we will only cover the first

two agreements, but if you want to research this topic any
further then I highly recommend reading Don Miguel Ruiz’s
book The 4 Agreements. He wrote this book in 1997 and since
then he has added an agreement and written another book
called “The Fifth Agreement” which I recommend viewers to
check out.

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