- Take time to be quiet;
- Try to silence your thoughts for a moment.
- Make quiet moments throughout the day and keep a quiet spot within yourself.
- Be quiet and savor your meals.
- Avoid those events and people that drain energy.
- Take time to be grateful:
- be open to the beauty and abundance of life;
- be receptive to what the world and others have to offer; and
- express your gratitude through charity.
- Choose to be positive. We cannot control what happens; we only control how we react. All stress is internal.
- Choose to see/find beauty, abundance, growth.
- Allow life to unfold naturally.
- “Wag more, bark less.”
- Choose not to worry.
- Let curiosity replace fear.
- “Worrying does not take away tomorrow’s troubles; it takes away today’s peace.”
- “Worry is like riding a roller coaster…it scares the heck out of you and you always end up right where you started.” — Ziggy [cartoon]
- Choose to distinguish between desires and needs:
- “A wealthy man is one who has enough.” (Laozi)
- To get through it, do it (Randlett).
- The happiest person is not the one who has the most but the one who makes the most of what he/she has.
- Choose to just be better:
- “It’s faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living.” B Oliver Wendell Holmes
- Take small steps towards big accomplishments;
- Seek to be flexible; bend with the wind; flow like the river; and
- Release:
- the need to be approved,
- Treat both praise and criticism as twin imposters.
- You can say: I don’t know; I can’t afford it; I’ll pass; I don’t agree; I don’t want that. Berdansini
- the desire to be superior and
- the desire to be right.
- the need to be approved,
- Choose a direction rather than a destination:
- Be open to all possibilities; live detached from the outcome.
- Life, purpose and happiness are a dance. One dances for the pleasure of the movement not to arrive at a specific spot on the floor.
- Aim your goals at learning new skills rather than reaching a set outcome.
- Keep moving.
- Choose the loving response.
- Apply the golden rule to your thoughts as well as your actions.
- When dealing with life’s irritants, “cut them some slack.”
- “Resentment is like taking poison and hoping the other person is going to die.”
- If something is wrong, ask can it be corrected in a loving manner and is it your duty/role to make the correction; if not, move on.
- Nonetheless, do not ignore evil. The universe has room for all things, both good and evil. But an angry, hateful or violent response to evil diminishes your own self. Therefore, seek a solution that provides a loving response to the greatest number and act with that love in your mind.
- Seek unity. Everything in the universe is linked at the quantum level.
- Purpose found in serving others serves oneself.
- Be what you want the world to be.
- Listen.
- Give:
- Be loving
- Be generous
- Give every person/creature you meet appreciation and a blessing if only a wish for their health and happiness.
- Only persistence is omnipotent. (Paraphrase of Calvin Coolidge statement)
Hey, I enjoyed your list! Just followed your blog, I’m also a traveler! ~ Sheila
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Thank you. Welcome aboard.
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These are good words in so many ways! Thanks for sharing them.
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Thank you. I review them frequently — sometimes just as a reminder to myself and sometimes to make an alteration.
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These are notes worth posting at home AND at work.
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I am glad you liked them. I always had career goals and they gradually evolved into these more general rules.
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Ray and Alie, these are so wonderful – and truly timeless. You bring up so many important reminders – it feels like the world could use a refresher course. I think my favorite is, “Wag more, bark less.” It evokes such a happy visual image. 🙂 All the very best, Terri
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Thank you. They are bits and pieces from many sources that evolved from career goals set some 50 years ago. I still review them regularly to remind myself of what is important to me now.
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