APPENDIX H: SAL Mantras

 

APPENDIX  H

SAL  Mantras

The willingness to sacrifice what you want now

for what you want most is the essence of character and wisdom.

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To err is human.  To repair and change is divine.

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In the end, there are only two kinds of people in the world: those who bow before Universal Law, and those who try and get Universal Law to bow to them. And after all is said and done,

all that will remain standing will be the LAW and those who chose to bow.

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Avoid costly errors and gross iniquity by learning from small mistakes and petty sins.

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I Am Freedom Focused.

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Personal Responsibility Begins with the Small Stuff.

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If you take care of the small things,

the big things will take care of themselves.

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Life doesn't improve as you get rich. You get rich as your life improves.

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You can't always control how you feel.

But you can control what you think about, say, and do about how you feel. 

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Nothing goes until YOU go.

Nothing works until YOU work;

Nothing happens until YOU happen!  

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Right is right and wrong is wrong and never the twain shall meet.

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Pick up ONE piece of trash every day that you did not throw down.

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If you really want to help other people, then go work on yourself.

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Do your best with what you have wherever you are.

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It may not be your fault, but it is your problem; so, what are you going to do about it?

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Many things are either good or bad, and we must make our choice!

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In the end, we all serve as our own JUDGE.

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Decisions Determine Destiny 

 ~ DDD  ~

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Difficulty does not spell impossibility. 

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There's no such thing as "hard" or "easy"; only your capacity—or lack thereof—to do.

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No one can do everything well. But everyone can do something well. 

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What you become inwardly changes your outer reality. 

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Recognizing your limitations is part of comprehending your possibilities. 

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The best way to influence others to change is to change yourself.

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It s not life's job to fulfill your wishes and make you happy.

It is YOUR job to fulfill life's wishes and become happy.

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Great people don't ask what others can do for them.

They do what they can for others.

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Anyone can tear something down.

But it takes a self-action leader to build something up!

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Selfishness is a relationship killer.

Selflessness is a relationship builder and fortifier.

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If at first you don't succeed, figure out why, make a new game plan, and then try again.

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It is better to set a small goal and make a little progress

than it is to set a big goal and do nothing.

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If you wish to speak and lead, you must first listen and follow.

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Nothing moves until YOU move.

Nothing goes until YOU go.

Nothing happens until YOU start happening.

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An underutilized mind is an incubator for neurosis.

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As a self-action leader, YOU must learn to Discipline your Disappointment.

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No positive and productive action undertaken in good faith is ever wasted. 

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S I M P L I F Y

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Whatever you have mastered that is good, right, and true—teach it to others.  

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Don't just be yourself. Be your best self!

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Remember who YOU are... and Rise to Your Potential.

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Finish Strong... and Live Without Regrets.

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No one can do everything. But, everyone can do something!

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—Dr. JJ

Wednesday, June 17, 2026

Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, USA

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APPENDIX G: SAL Library / Bibliography of Recommended Reading

 

APPENDIX  G

SAL  Library of 

Recommended Reading

Note: This by no means represents a comprehensive list of potential titles that are both Freedom Focused and SAL-worthy. It simply represents a brief list of titles that Dr. JJ himself has either read, or with which he is familiar, and therefore personally endorses. We warmly welcome and enthusiastically invite other self-action leaders to add to this list. If you are feeling even more ambitious, we invite you to compile a library list of your own making. We simply ask that all such lists and their constituent titles comport with the spirit and vision of Self-Action Leadership and the personal and professional FREEDOM it engenders, champions, and promotes.     

Autobiography, Biography, and History

• The Story of Civilization (11 volume)....................................................................Will & Ariel Durant
• Heroes of History.................................................................................................................Will Durant

• Cultural Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know.............................................E.D. Hirsch, Jr.

• The World's Great Speeches................................................................Lewis Copeland, et al. (Editors)

• The Making of America: The Substance and Meaning of the Constitution..............W. Cleon Skousen

• The Federalist Papers.........................Alexander Hamilton (51 articles), James Madison (29 articles), and John Jay (5 articles)

• The Autobiography...................................................................................................Benjamin Franklin

• Benjamin Franklin.........................................................................................................Walter Isaacson

• His Excellency: George Washington................................................................................Joseph J. Ellis

• John Adams..............................................................................................................David McCullough

• Founding Mothers............................................................................................................Cokie Roberts

• Napoleon: A Concise Biography.......................................................................................David A. Bell

• Lincoln the Unknown......................................................................................................Dale Carnegie

• A. Lincoln...............................................................................................................Ronald C. White, Jr.

• Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln.................................Doris Kearns Godwin

• The Narrative of Frederick Douglass......................................................................Frederick Douglass

• "Bayonet! Forward": My Civil War Reminiscences..............................Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain

• Florence Nightingale.....................................................................................................Mark Bostridge

• Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth.......................................Mohandas Gandhi

• To Rescue the American Spirit: Teddy Roosevelt and the Birth of a Superpower.............................................................................................................................Bret Baier

• The Last Lion: Winston Churchill (3-volume biography).....................................William Manchester and Paul Reid (Volume 3).

• Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela................................Nelson Mandela

• Civilization: The West and the Rest................................................................................Niall Ferguson

Character Development, Religion, and Spirituality

• Poor Richard's Almanack..........................................................................................Benjamin Franklin

• Man's Search for Meaning............................................................................................Viktor E. Frankl

• The Road Less Traveled: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values, and Spiritual Growth...................................................................................................................M. Scott Peck, M.D.

• Further Along the Road Less Traveled: The Unending Journey Toward Spiritual Growth (The Edited Lectures)................................................................................................................M. Scott Peck, M.D. 

• The Road Less Traveled and Beyond: Spiritual Growth in an Age of Anxiety.....M. Scott Peck, M.D.

• People of the Lie: The Hope for Healing Human Evil.........................................M. Scott Peck, M.D. 

• Mere Christianity...................................................................................................................C.S. Lewis

• The Screwtape Letters...........................................................................................................C.S. Lewis

• Standing for Something: 10 Neglected Virtues that Will Heal our Hearts and Homes.....................................................................................................................Gordon B. Hinckley

• How Will You Measure Your Life?...................................................................Clayton M. Christensen with James Allworth & Karen Dillon

• The Holy Bible  (Christianity)

• The Holy Quran  (Islam)

• The Bhagavad Gita, Mahabharata, Vedas, and Upanishads  (Hinduism)

• The Tripitaka (Buddhism)

• The Analects / I Ching / Five Classics  (Confucianism)

• Tao te Ching  (Taoism)

• Guru Granth Sahib  (Sikhism)

• The Book of Mormon: Another Testament of Jesus Christ  (Restoration Christianity)

• Talmud, Torah, and Tanakh  (Judaism)

• A Song of Humanity: A Science-Based Alternative to the World's Scriptures  (Atheism)........................................................................Only One Man (aka Dr. James G.S. Clawson)

Classical Literature

• Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, Drama, and Writing.........X.J. Kennedy & Dana Gioia

• The Divine Comedy.......................................................................................................Dante Alighieri

• The Canterbury Tales.................................................................................................Geoffrey Chaucer

• Don Quixote...............................................................................................................Miguel Cervantes

• The Complete Works.............................................................................................William Shakespeare

• The Pilgrims Progress........................................................................................................John Bunyan

• A Tale of Two Cities.....................................................................................................Charles Dickens
• A Christmas Carol........................................................................................................Charles Dickens
• The Life of our Lord.....................................................................................................Charles Dickens

• Les Misérables....................................................................................................................Victor Hugo

• War and Peace......................................................................................................................Leo Tolstoy

• Pride and Prejudice..............................................................................................................Jane Austen

• Frankenstein......................................................................................................................Mary Shelley

• The Scarlet Letter..................................................................................................Nathaniel Hawthorne

• The Story of King Arthur and His Knights........................................................................Howard Pyle

• The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood..............................................................................Howard Pyle

• To Kill a Mockingbird..........................................................................................................Harper Lee

Finance

• The Gospel of Wealth.................................................................................................Andrew Carnegie

• The Richest Man in Babylon......................................................................................George S. Clason

• Think and Grow Rich.......................................................................................................Napoleon Hill

• Rich Dad, Poor Dad.....................................................................Robert Kiyosaki and Sharon Lechter

Leadership and Personal Development

• Acres of Diamonds.......................................................................................................Russell Conwell

• Character Building Thought Power..........................................................................Ralph Waldo Trine

• How to Win Friends and Influence People......................................................................Dale Carnegie
• How to Stop Worrying and Start Living..........................................................................Dale Carnegie

• The Magic of Thinking Big.......................................................................................David J. Schwartz

• The Greatest Salesman in the World..................................................................................Og Mandino
• The Greatest Secret in the World........................................................................................Og Mandino

• The Power of Positive Thinking...................................................................................Norman Vincent Peale

• The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People...................................................................Stephen R. Covey
• The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Families................................................................Stephen R. Covey
• Principle Centered Leadership...................................................................................Stephen R. Covey
• First Things First.......................................................................................................Stephen R. Covey, A. Roger Merrill, & Rebecca R. Merrill
• The 8th Habit: From Effectiveness to Greatness.......................................................Stephen R. Covey

• The 10 Natural Laws of Successful Time and Life Management...............................Hyrum W. Smith
• What Matters Most: The Power of Living Your Values..............................................Hyrum W. Smith

• Leadership and Self-Deception: Getting Out of the Box...........................................Arbinger Institute

• The Wisdom of Solomon at Work: Ancient Virtues for Living and Leading Today...........................................................................................................................Charles C. Manz, Karen Manz, Robert D. Marx, and Christopher P. Neck.

• The New SuperLeadership: Leading Others to Lead Themselves...............................Charles C. Manz and Henry P. Sims, Jr. 

• Leading Quietly: An Unorthodox Guide to Doing the Right Thing................Joseph L. Badaracco, Jr.

• The Extraordinary Leader: Turning Good Managers into Great Leaders...........................Jack Zenger

• The Speed of Trust: The One Thing that Changes Everything.............................Stephen M.R. Covey

• Finding Your Flow: How to Identify Your Flow Assets and Liabilities—The Keys to Peak Performance Every Day..............................................................................................Bruce H. Jackson

• The Leadership Wisdom of Jesus: Practical Lessons for Today..................................Charles C. Manz

• The 6 Most Important Decisions You'll Ever Make (for teenagers)....................................Sean Covey

• Leading with Honor: Leadership Lessons from the Hanoi Hilton...........................................Lee Ellis

• Self-Leadership: The Definitive Guide to Personal Excellence............................Christopher P. Neck, Charles C. Manz, and Jeffery D. Houghton

• Emotional Intelligence: Why it Can Matter More than IQ...........................................Daniel Goleman

• Social Intelligence: The New Science of Human Relationships..................................Daniel Goleman

• The Tipping Point.....................................................................................................Malcolm Gladwell

• Outliers......................................................................................................................Malcolm Gladwell

• On Becoming a Leader....................................................................................................Warren Bennis

• FLOW: The Psychology of Optimal Experience............................................Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

 

Philosophy

• Dialogues of Socrates.....................................................................................................................Plato

• The Republic...................................................................................................................................Plato

• Nichomachean Ethics and other Works of Aristotle.................................................................Aristotle

• Meditations...................................................................................................................Marcus Aurelius

• Philosophical Works of Immanuel Kant (Duty Ethics)..................................................Immanuel Kant

• Philosophical Works of John Stuart Mill (Utilitarianism)............................................John Stuart Mill

• Essays, Poems, Journals, Letters, etc..................................................................Ralph Waldo Emerson

• Walden; or, Life in the Woods.............................................................................Henry David Thoreau

• History of Philosophy........................................................................................................Julián Marías

• Existentialism: For and Against.....................................................................................Paul Roubiczek

• The Story of Philosophy......................................................................................................Will Durant
• The Greatest Minds and Ideas of all Time...........................................................................Will Durant
• On the Meaning of Life.......................................................................................................Will Durant

• A Guide for the Perplexed...........................................................................................E.F. Schumacher
 

Poetry

• One Hundred and One Famous Poems: With a Prose Supplement.......................Roy J. Cook (Editor)

• An Introduction to Poetry........................................................X.J. Kennedy and Dana Gioia (Editors)

• Immortal Poems of the English Language.......................................................Oscar Williams (Editor)

• The Sonnets...........................................................................................................William Shakespeare

• Poems of William Wordsworth

• Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

• Poems of Emily Dickinson

• Other Poetry Anthologies

• Psalms of Life: A Poetry Collection.............................................................................Jordan R. Jensen

Culture, Science, Miscellaneous, Etc.

• Confucius Lives Next Door: What Living in the East Teaches Us About Living in the West.........................................................................................................................................T.R. Reid

• A Brief History of Time.............................................................................................Stephen Hawking

• Conceptual Physics.........................................................................................................Paul G. Hewitt

—Dr. JJ

Wednesday, June 10, 2026

Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, USA

Author's Note: This is the 525th Blog Post Published by Freedom Focused LLC since November 2013 and the 308th consecutive weekly blog published since August 31, 2020.   

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APPENDIX F: SAL Intended Audiences

 

APPENDIX  F

Intended Audiences of this Work

How to Use this Textbook in Educational, 

Organizational, Home, and Personal Settings.

All human beings are personal leaders (leaders of self), whether they know it, like it, and care about it, or not. Moreover, all personal leaders have the potential to become self-action leaders if they desire and choose to do—and be—so. 

This comprehensive Life Leadership textbook has therefore been written with a UNIVERSAL audience in mind; that is—anyone and everyone on the planet who is interested in self-improvement, individual growth, and personal change. 

There are, however, seven (7) specific audiences for which this book may have particular appeal. 

AUDIENCE #1:  Formal EDUCATORS, including: administrators, teachers, coaches, and support staff. 

AUDIENCE #2:  STUDENTS of all ages in formal educational settings (classroom curriculum).

AUDIENCE #3:  INDIVIDUALS outside of formal educational settings (self-help manual).

AUDIENCE #4:  LEADERS, MANAGERS, and WORKERS of all kinds in all settings.

AUDIENCE #5:  PARENTS and FAMILIES

AUDIENCE #6:  PERSONS coping with mental, emotional, and social ILLNESSES. 

AUDIENCE #7:  ELECTED OFFICIALS and other high profile LEADERS and ROLE MODELS.

This Life Leadership textbook has been designed as a comprehensive toolbox of principles and practices that these (and other) audiences can flexibly utilize as a resource to facilitate educational initiatives aimed at the self-improvement, character development, and personal growth of individuals, homes, schools, organizations, communities, states, and nations around the globe.

Individual sections below provide useful suggestions on how the material might best serve the seven (7) audiences listed above.  

AUDIENCE #1:  Formal EDUCATORS, including: administrators, teachers, coaches, and support staff. 

BOOK the SEVENTH of this Life Leadership textbook provides a template curriculum for implementing leadership, character, and life-skill education into public and private schools. SAL-oriented principles can and should be flexibly and continually taught to children, teenagers, and adults of all ages and educational levels. 

This particular textbook is best suited for highly literate high school and college-aged students and above. However, high-functioning and self-motivated middle schoolers—and even children—may also enjoy and thrive on the material. 

The textbook itself is designed for use as either a seminal (primary) text in classes specifically tailored to Self-Action Leadership, leadership, or character development. However, it may also be flexibly utilized as an ancillary (secondary) text in a variety of other courses (e.g. English, history, psychology, health, philosophy, etc.).  

Ideas for Using the SAL Textbook in Schools and Other Educational Settings

• Read and study the SAL Life Leadership textbook.
• Complete the SAL Master Challenge.
• Hold team, group, and organizational "Constitutional Conventions" and then draft a DoI and Constitution for the unit involved.
• Initiate conversations, conduct lunch & learn discussions, and provide other educational opportunities focused on the SAL philosophy, theory, and model in conjunction with other, related and relevant material.  
• Incorporate SAL material into monthly, weekly, or even daily leadership initiatives, trainings, and communications.
• Display SAL Mantras, quotes, poems, and imagery in prominent locales throughout campus, classrooms, and offices.
• Integrate SAL principles and practices into any and all curriculum (wherever relevant) through classroom discussions and application-based assignments.
• Reference SAL Mantras, quotes, poems, books, essays, speeches, et cetera, whenever and wherever relevant.
• Practice what you preach by continually striving to exemplify SAL principles and practices in your own personal and professional walk and life.  

AUDIENCE #2 and #3:  STUDENTS and INDIVIDUALS of all ages inside (and outside) formal educational settings.  

Of all seven audiences covered in this appendix, none is more preeminent and primal than STUDENTS (individuals) of all ages. This is, after all, a TEXTBOOK and/or a self-help manual or guide. 

While this particular text is best suited to the high school and collegiate levels (and above), basic SAL principles and practices can be flexibly tailored to help students of all ages everywhere to develop character in conjunction with achieving self-improvement and growth as a self-action leader.

Ideas for Using the SAL Textbook as a STUDENT inside the classroom (textbook) or INDIVIDUAL outside of the classroom (self-help manual).

• Read and study the SAL Life Leadership textbook.
• Complete the SAL Master Challenge.
• Re-read, re-study, review, and continually return to and reference the text throughout your life.
• Teach the material to others and encourage them to read, study, and complete the SAL Master Challenge themselves.
• Place SAL Mantras, quotes, poems, and images in prominent places in your home and work spaces.

AUDIENCE #4: LEADERS, MANAGERS, and WORKERS of all kinds in all settings.

The SAL Theory and Model is highly applicable to business leaders, managers, professionals, and workers of all kinds. Professionally speaking, the SAL Model's construction metaphor provides a vivid companion analogue to Principles of Project Management, whereby individual men and women themselves become "the project" at hand, with personal and professional change, growth, and improvement as the omnipresent objective.  

SAL's comprehensive Life Leadership approach focuses on the whole person in an effort to avoid atrophy or failure in one area whilst busily attending to another area. In the insightful words of Ghandi: "[You] cannot do right in one department of life whilst ... occupied in doing wrong in any other department. Life is one indivisible whole." (1) 

"You cannot do right in one department of life whilst 

occupied in doing wrong in any other department. 

Life is one indivisible whole."

—Gandhi

SAL training empowers business professionals and workers of all kinds with the holistic self-development required to become effective servant leaders who are courageous, confident, and committed to the well- being of themselves and their family, organization, community, state, nation, and world. SAL training equips professionals with the principles and practices needed to integrate their personal and professional lives in a way that guarantees long-term success in both.     

Ideas for Using the SAL Textbook in the Professional Workplace

• Read and study the SAL Life Leadership textbook.
• Complete the SAL Master Challenge.
• After completing one's self-DoI and self-constitution, hold "Constitutional Conventions" for one's team, group, and/or the organization at-large.  
• Initiate conversations, conduct lunch and learn discussions, and provide other educational and training opportunities whereby the SAL philosophy, theory, and model, are taught, reviewed, and championed in team, group, and/or organizational settings.  
• Flexibly incorporate SAL principles and practices into group, team, department, and company-wide communications and cultures.
• Display SAL Mantras, quotes, poems, and images in prominent locations throughout your personal office and other organizational areas (as appropriate and approved).  
• Strive to exemplify SAL principles and practices at work—and make restitution when and where you fall short.  
• Continually return to the textbook to review, renew, and refresh your memory on SAL principles and practices.  

AUDIENCE #5:  PARENTS and FAMILIES.

If individuals are the building blocks of society, families are the mortar and steel reinforcers that solidify those blocks into place. At Freedom Focused, we hold that there are no greater leadership or management positions than that of Father and Mother. And there is no greater duty and honor than that of bearing and raising another human being to full stature and maturity. 

Sadly, poor—or even absent—parenting has become a pandemic throughout the USA and world, resulting in weakened nations, communities, organizations, schools, etc. Self-Action Leadership was developed in large part as a potential panacea to this perplexing problem. SAL by itself, of course, cannot parent anybody. However, parents who learn about, apply, and then teach SAL to their children can wield an incredibly positive and productive influence in a young person's life.  

Governments and organizations themselves will never be able to effectively legislate good parenting. However, effective and loving parenting can and should be taught and modeled whenever and wherever possible. The SAL philosophy, theory, and model are worthy resources for this worthiest of all causes. 

There are few things that parents and families can do that will more positively affect, influence, and impact their home lives than to learn, practice, and teach Self-Action Leadership. We therefore invite parents everywhere to read this comprehensive Life Leadership textbook, apply the principles and practices into their own lives, and then model and teach the material continually to their children. 

We promise parents that by so doing, YOU will reap rich dividends of character development and relationship building in yourselves and your children.

Ideas for Using the SAL Textbook in Homes

• Read and study the SAL Life Leadership textbook.
• Complete the SAL Master Challenge.
• Regularly (weekly) gather for a "Family Hour" or "Family Night" to read from and discuss SAL principles and practices, using the book as a primary text.  
• Compose personal and family Declaration of Independences and Constitutions.
• Hold regular (weekly) family council meetings to plan, schedule, communicate openly, and troubleshoot relationship issues and other challenges.  
• Invite other families and friends to read and study the SAL Life Leadership textbook and join with you on occasion for "Family Hour" or "Family Night" for both learning devotionals and fun activities.   
• Strive to exemplify SAL principles and practices at home and make restitution when and where you fall short.  
• Engage in service projects together as a family, both at home, in the yard, and beyond at church, school, or in the community.   

AUDIENCE #6:  PERSONS coping with mental, emotional, and social ILLNESSES. 

Having struggled mightily with mental, emotional, and social illness himself, this audience is near and dear to Dr. JJ's heart. As such, an explicit aim of this work has always been to provide aid, comfort, and hope to those struggling with mental illness or cognitive distortions of any kind, which, to one degree or another affects all of us at various points of our lives.  

Self-Action Leadership was developed in part out of the many useful tools Dr. JJ used to combat his own neurosis and cognitive distortions involved with his OCD, anxiety, and depression. As such, they are proven strategies that really can help! 

This Life Leadership textbook can serve as an inspiring message and useful guidebook for effectively combatting mental illness in conjunction with other therapies approved by your mental healthcare provider, thus empowering your ascent to the desirable, honorable, and attainable goal of mental health and hygiene. Dr. JJ—and all of us at Freedom Focused—sincerely hope and pray that this comprehensive Life Leadership textbook will prove helpful and hopeful to any and all who suffer with mental illness and are willing to read and study its pages.  

As you peruse the ideas below for using this text within a mental health construct, remember to work closely with your mental healthcare provider to tailor an individual approach that is right for YOU. This includes tailoring your usage of the SAL textbook to your unique healthcare needs.   

Ideas for Using the SAL Textbook as a Mental Healthcare Tool

• Share the SAL Life Leadership textbook with your mental healthcare professional and ask his or her counsel on how to best use it within a framework of your unique and individual mental health issues and needs. 
• Share with your mental healthcare provider how you would personally like to use the material as part of your mental healthcare plan. 
• Working together with your mental healthcare provider, develop a plan for using the SAL Life Leadership textbook that harmonizes with your shared mental health goals.  

AUDIENCE #7:  ELECTED OFFICIALS and other high profile LEADERS and ROLE MODELS.

Few persons hold more personal power and influence in our world than elected officials and other officers of secular governments. These persons wield an enormous impact on the vast majority other other, non-elected officials who reside within their dominions. Other, non-elected, but high profile persons of influence similarly wield much power in our world.   

Sadly, far too many wield this power and influence in hurtful, negative, and deleterious ways—leaving a wash of cultural havoc in their wake. 

At Freedom Focused, we call upon political leaders and all other high profile persons of authority, influence, and power to choose to become persons of principle—complete with a conscience and moral scruples—who play their parts as honorable and noble statesmen and women by consistently exhibiting the highest levels of personal character and professional integrity.  

We invite all such persons to read and study this comprehensive Life Leadership textbook in a good-faith effort to discover how you can utilize the SAL philosophy, theory, and model to be the best leader you can be—an authentic and genuine role model of circumspect character and integrity. Doing so will inspire and assist you as you serve your constituents, seek to achieve personal transcendence, and leave a lasting legacy of positive, world-changing contributions.  

Ideas for Using the SAL Textbook in Society-at-Large

• Read and study the SAL Life Leadership textbook. 
• Complete the SAL Master Challenge
• Encourage your colleagues, subordinates, constituents, and/or other followers to follow your lead and do likewise.
• Incorporate SAL principles and practices into your interpersonal associations and media appearances.
• Use the bully pulpit to promote SAL and other Pedagogies of Personal Leadership and Character Development (PPLCDs). 
• Practice what you preach, and make restitution when and where you fall short.  
• Strive to become a humble, teachable, and inspirational self-action leader and SERVANT leader of the public.  

—Dr. JJ

Wednesday, May 27, 2026

Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, USA

Author's Note: This is the 520th Blog Post Published by Freedom Focused LLC since November 2013 and the 306th consecutive weekly blog published since August 31, 2020.   

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Click HERE for a complete listing of Dr. JJ's Autobiographical Articles

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—Dr. JJ

Wednesday, June 3, 2026

Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, USA

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