It’s my birthday.
I’ve got stuff to do that doesn’t involve typing up a new post. Then the widow of my friend Dave posted a list of rules he had written about life to the blog she’s been keeping since he got sick. Her post was simple:
I found this list on his workbench…
- What you resist persists
- Don’t be a football to other people’s opinions
- Expectations reduce the joy of life
- Don’t take a position. It reduces your options.
- Positive and negative are complementary
- Don’t see intention in other people’s mistakes
- Responsibility is power/growth
- Random acts of kindness increase the joy in the world
- Don’t pour water on other people’s enthusiasm
- The present moment is inevitable
If a birthday is a good day to consider all the things that have happened in the last year and look at the year ahead, then this list is strangely coincidental. How would I live my life if I used any or all of these rules in it?
I wish I would have had a chance to talk to Dave about it, too, as I’d like to know why he picked this set of things to write down.
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