Just as Tony Robbins (whose inspirational teachings and writings have had impacted me ever since the early nineties) puts it:

“Any time you sincerely want to make a change, the first thing you must do is to raise your standards.”

"Raise your standards for the one thing over which you have complete control- yourse lf.

It means you're committed to being intelligent, flexible, and creative enough to consistently find a way to look at your life in a fashion that makes any experience enriching."

"If you don't set a baseline standard for what you'll accept in life, you'll find it's easy to slip into behaviors and attitudes or a quality of life that's far below what you deserve."