Rules for humans

"This is something that you should print and put somewhere to see often"


1. We only get one body. We may not like it, but it's the only thing we are guaranteed to keep for a lifetime.
2. We will learn lessons. Every person or incident is our teacher.
3. Lessons often appear as mistakes or failures. The only real mistake is not learning the lesson.
4. A lesson is repeated until learned. And if we are still here, we still have lessons to learn.
5. If we don't learn the easy lessons, they get harder. Pain is one way the universe gets our attention.
6. We'll know we've learned when our actions change. Only action turns knowledge into wisdom.
7. We will tend to forget these rules.
8. We can remember anytime we wish.

It's not known who wrote these rules but the more you read them the more you will appreciate the wisdom. Imagine if we taught these lessons to our kids while they were growing up. We would save them a lot of unnecessary pain. I read this a first a long time but (see rule #7).
Of course if you wanted to be a contrarian you could live by Thomas Edison's words...

"There ain't no rules around here!
We're trying to accomplish something"