Number 9: Transform yourself by lining up a role model(s): Part I of 3

It is vital to have a number of role models in your life whose words mirror their actions and and whose actions mirror their words.

I say 'vital' because without a series of guidelines to conduct the business of your life, your life is like a raft at sea without an anchor, without a port. The often corrupt mores of the marketplace will determine every decision, guide your every action.

It is imperative that we choose actions that will be a win-win situation for all parties involved.

Before looking back at the decade that was and those individuals who have been guideposts for me, I must commend my dad who passed on at the end of the last decade. He was a doer, a man of few words and much action. He influenced thousands of lives through his medical practice of nearly 70 years and his teaching medical ethics in the community and the principles of differential diagnosis to hundreds of medical students for six decades.

He was a relentless pursuer of truth through his rigorous scientific research, published in many medical journals, and through his listening very carefully and attentively to the intimate details of the private lives of his patients. His character is explored in Remembering Dad's Passion for Sports.

To be Continued