Some Short Rules For Life

Short Rules for Life

Life didn’t happen to you, it happens for you.

1. The chief task in life is to focus on what you can control.
2. You control how you respond or react to things. Life is 10% what happens and 90% how you deal with it. Changing expectations causes you to use your adaptation energy, the ability to handle unexpected circumstances. You will need an ability to control your emotions once you are taxed with changes that seem overwhelming. Deep breathing and calming breath and thoughts can help from loosing your temper or breaking down. Meditation and self control assists in adapting to constantly changing situations.
3. Ask yourself, is this essential? If so, work hard on it.
4. Meditate on your mortality. Life is short.
5. Value time more than possessions. You can’t get that moment back once it’s gone.
6. You are a product of your habits, so make good choices.
7. Remember you have the power to have no opinion. If you did not know it existed, you would have no opinion. You don’t have to react to everything.
8. Own the morning. How you start the day is important.
9. Put yourself up for review. Did I do my best?
10. We suffer more in imagination than in reality. Worry does not change whether something happens or not.
11. Try to see the good in others.
12. Never be overheard complaining even to yourself. Complaints solve nothing.
13. Two ears and one mouth for a reason. Listen more than you talk.
14. There is always something you can do. Move forward just a little bit.
15. Don’t compare yourself to others. Focus on what you do.
16. Life as if you have died and come back to life. Each new day is “extra”.
17. The best revenge to mistreatment is not to be like that.
18. Be strict with yourself and tolerant of others. Self discipline.
19. Put every emotion, impression to the test before acting on it. Don’t go with your snap judgment.
20. Learn something from everyone. You don’t know everything. Others know or can do something that you can’t
21. Focus on process/effort not on outcomes.
22. Define what success means to you. Making an impact, push yourself…
23. Find a way to love everything that happens (Amor Fati: love your fate). You can find a way to use it.
24. Seek out challenges. Do something every day that scares you. Challenge yourself.

Don’t follow the mob. Think for yourself. If you find yourself on the side of the majority, pause and reflect. Is this right for me? Decide for yourself. Think independently.