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I came up with these 13 personal guidelines/commandments for life based on learning and experience.
What are yours? (The number isn’t important!)
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What are yours? (The number isn’t important!)
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1. Don’t measure yourself against other people’s posturing.
You have no idea what goes on behind closed doors.
You have no idea what goes on behind closed doors.
2. Always have The Tail End in mind and use time with others well – particularly, don’t waste it distracted by devices. https://waitbutwhy.com/2015/12/the-tail-end.html
3. When things are going sweetly and peacefully, pause a moment, and then say out loud, “If this isn’t nice, what is?”
4. Value:
• Books over television
• Podcasts over social media
• Learning over news
• Books over television
• Podcasts over social media
• Learning over news
5. If you don’t force yourself into discomfort your comfort zone will never expand.
Often the thing you least feel like doing is what you need to do most.
Often the thing you least feel like doing is what you need to do most.
6. Everybody matters or nobody matters.
7. Meet with Triumph and Disaster and treat those two impostors just the same. https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46473/if---
8. Don’t attribute to malice what can be explained otherwise.
So someone slighted you, who cares?
So someone slighted you, who cares?
9. Learn from the past but leave it behind.
Plan for the future but don’t obsess.
Live in the present.
Plan for the future but don’t obsess.
Live in the present.
10. Do favours.
Do help.
Do give.
Don’t keep score.
Do help.
Do give.
Don’t keep score.
11. Show don’t tell, influence don’t command.
Actions speak louder than words.
Actions speak louder than words.
12. Materialism leaves you constantly vulnerable to a world beyond your control.
Know you have enough.
Know you have enough.
13. Just that you do the right thing.
The rest doesn’t matter.
The rest doesn’t matter.
