Peaks & Valleys

I read a new book by Spencer Johnson Peaks & Valleys and received the following principles in work and in life for thoughts and reflections :

1. Whether you are Temporarily up on a Peak or down in a Valley
Ask yourself: What is the truth in the situation?
"If you make your decisions based on the truth, you're going to come out in very good shape."

2. Relax, Knowing Valleys End

Do the opposite of what put you in the Valley.
Get outside of yourself: be of more service at work and more loving in life. Uncover the good that is hidden in a bad time, and use it to your advantage.

"What if we went back to the basics? What if we spent more time together?... Would we in fact, feel a lot more calm and peaceful because we got back to the basics?"

3. Be Humble and Grateful.

Do more of what got you there.
Keep making things better. Do more for others.
Save resources for your upcoming Valleys.

"If you are humble enough to remember that you're only part of the peak and you're only part of the valley, then you start getting a more realistic perspective."

4. Imagine yourself Enjoying a Better Future
In such specific, believable detail that you soon enjoy doing what takes you there.

"Is what I'm doing raising or lowering my energy? Am I feeling more calm or more stressed? Am I getting better or worse results? If you're getting the negative answers, then you know you're not being true to what you need."

5. Help people Make Good and Bad Times work for them too.

"The single most powerful way to share Peaks and Valleys with those that you work with and live with is, look at the principles and the practical tools and use them yourself."