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Rules for simple life

   1. Never give yourself a haircut after three margaritas.

   2. You need only two tools: WD-40 and duct tape. If it doesn't move and it should, use WD-40. If it moves and shouldn't, use the tape.

   3. The five most essential words for a healthy, vital relationship are, "I apologize" and "you are right."

   4. Everyone seems normal until you get to know them.

   5. Never pass up an opportunity to pee.

   6. If he/she says that you are too good for him/her - believe them.

   7. Learn to pick your battles; Ask yourself, "Will this matter one year from now? How about one month? One week? One day?"

   8. When you make a mistake, make amends immediately. It's easier to eat crow while it's still warm.

   9. If you woke up breathing, congratulations! You have another chance!

  10. Living well really is the best revenge. Being miserable because of a bad or former relationship just might mean that the other person was right about you.

  11. Work is good, but it's not that important. Money is nice, but you can't take it, or anything else, with you. Statistics show most people don't live to spend all they saved; Some die even before they retire. Anything we have isn't really ours; we just borrow it while we're here... even our kids.

  12. Be really good to your family and/or friends. You never know when you are going to need them to empty your bedpan.

  13. If you are going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it,you may as well laugh about it now.

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Life has a few simple rules


Life has a few simple rules which, if followed, would make this a better world.


   1. Be kind to others. "Love your neighbor as yourself" is a bit difficult for most people who don't even love themselves. Instead, open your heart to love and your mind to understanding. Do not miss an opportunity to help. There but for the grace of God could be you. Most misery in life is self-inflicted by an overarching defense of the ego. Surrender your own importance and love and peace will follow.

   2. Live a life of honor and nobility. Try to live your highest values. Do not defile your body with holes and cheap grafitti. Do not stuff toxins and garbage in your mouth and spew it out at every opportunity. No not lie, deceive, or pretend to be someone you are not. Not everyone is a world class athlete, a genius, a millionaire, or a famous person. You can be a good person and that is more than enough. A simple and unexpected act of kindness or assistance to another is worth more than an award.

   3. Don't take life so seriously. None of us get out of this alive. Enjoy every moment if you can. I believe that we picked our life before it began. The handicapped, the brutalized, the sick and the sad, are spiritual heros who chose a learning experience of courage and intensity. Your real self is shining purity. Remember that and look for the light.

   4. Learn everything you can. Do not settle for anyone else's truth. Stop and question, then keep an open mind. No one has all the truth and probably has little of it anyway. Dogma is killing us all.

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Here are my 8 simple rules to restore work/life balance:

Ask yourself: Am I ready, willing, and able to change? Are you serious about creating better balance or is it just something you’d like to do, involving a passing thought as you gobble fast food at your desk and miss your child’s basketball game while you work 60 hour weeks?

Put life before work. I detest the term work/life balance. How did work ever get put before life. Turn this phrase around and see it as life/work balance. Get your priorities straight: Put life first, for without life there is no work.

Think dynamic balance not static balance. Static balance is a state you achieve and can hold for a long time. In the flow and flux of life and work don’t expect static balance, rather monitor when work gets out of balance and make constant and continual dynamic corrections.

Know you no’s and affirm your yeses. We must be able to say no to work in order to say yes to family. If work is becoming too consuming and your manager is asking for even more what would happen if you said, “no”?

Don’t B.S. about who you are working for. I have heard a few people who overwork say they are doing it for their families yet I don’t hear their families asking them to work more. More often I hear their family saying they would like to have them around more.

Apply instant empathy to gain valuable perspective. If you are overworking and have a family pause before the next task and think about how each of your family members (spouse – children) are experiencing the impact of your work being out of balance. Is there something you need to be doing differently? Right now?

Don’t tell a four year old that you are spending quality time with them. Don’t justify your lack of time with your family by claiming that the time you spend with them is quality time. Quality is good but it is not a substitute for quantity especially with a four year old.

Talk your way out of teetering at work. Talk to a trusted advisor or mentor to get help if you are out of balance. Talk with your family. Talk with someone from your employee assistance program. Talk with your manager. Talk with yourself. And even more important, listen to what they say and act on what they tell you.

[emilesmith]

Nice post....some of the Rules are really nice

[Mannytta]

Good one and if one wil adopt the same m, can get  his/her life in better way. Really ! we forget all that and lives are diverted from the benchmark that we need.