Jan
12
2010
Life Rules
I’ve been pondering about Life Rules…as in Rules for Life rather than some kind of cringe making affirmation type statement (because if it were an affirmation surely it would have at least one ! if not !! and an OK!!! after it like this…Life Rules!! OK!!…and anyway I don’t do affirmations…I only do moaning & groaning) Excuse me while I clear the clutter of unnecessary !!! from my blog [takes a moment]. I’m back.
So I thunked and thunked about some Life Rules or ‘Guiding Principles’ if we want to get all corporate about it. Not those dreary ‘eat well, sleep well, count your blessings, don’t go to bed on an argument, don’t consume entire bodyweight in Pimms No 1 etc etc’ type rules which just beg you break them. No, I mean some user friendly might actually live by them rules And these are my rules (for me, not for everyone…you can live by them too if you want but I might be a little afraid of you…):
1. Have a framework (like a routine but without the dreer) to banish chaos but don’t be ruled by it.
2. Ruthlessly cull stuff on a regular basis (excess clothes, tat, toys, piles of paper, toxic friends and other randoms who drain the life blood from you). Stuff is the enemy.
3. Have a passion and indulge it.
4. Remember that what goes around comes around.
5. Bad stuff might have happened in the past, but it’s over now. Let it go.
6. Talk less, listen more.
7. Orandum est ut sit mens sana in corpore sano.
8. Burgundy hair never looks good on anyone.
9. Do less, better.
10. I am the master of my fate…I am the captain of my soul…and if you can’t change your fate, change your attitude.
And those are The Rules. I reserve the right to change them of course, but that’ll do for now. So what are your Life Rules (OK!!)….what do you MEAN you don’t have any? Tush and fie.
