I will strive for openness, honesty, active and reflective listening, empathy, truthfulness, trustworthiness, responsibility, ethics and integrity in my daily professional and personal life.

I will engage in collaborative behavior wherever possible and exhibit leadership to encourage others to use collaborative behavior in their personal and professional lives.

I will look for the good in others and acknowledge, support and affirm this good.

I will strive to exhibit tolerance and lead and encourage those around me to seek to understand and accept the customs, beliefs, appearances and interests of others while working to achieve consensus.

I will strive to build relationships and trust with others with whom I must negotiate.

I will strive to define problems in a positively framed and neutral manner and to seek agreement of others to do the same.

I will stand up strongly for the values and interests that I hold and feel are of broader public value. I will negotiate in a principled but firm way to identify and understand the interests of others and find acceptable solutions to issues where others have differing opinions and positions.

I will work for a better world, country, state and community based upon principles of democracy, sustainability, equity, tolerance and economic progress balanced with support for the environment in which we all live.

I will strive to exert leadership in selected issues which I feel are in the larger public interest.  In exerting this leadership I will strive for resolutions that I deem to have longer-term substantive value. I will try to avoid working for short term, "cosmetic" decisions.

I will strive for excellence in all that I do. 

I will strive to maintain a healthy lifestyle and to inspire others to value fitness and good health.