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RULES FOR BEING HUMAN
I was reminded of these rules, when reading a posting by Steve andrade, in a recent thread.
THE RULES FOR BEING HUMAN
When you were born, you didn’t come with an ‘owner’s manual’.
Cherie Carter-Scott created what she called “The Rules for Being Human”.
Many people have found these guidelines make life work better.
A lot of people have made their own amendments to the original version.
Here is my version (Very little of it is original)
One: You will receive a body.
You may like it or hate it, but it will be yours for as long as you live.
How you take care of it or fail to take care of it can make an enormous difference to the quality of your life.
Two: You will be presented with lessons.
You are enrolled in a full time informal school called life.
Each person, animal, object or occurrence can be your teacher.
Each day, you will be presented with opportunities to learn what you need to know.
The lessons presented are often completely different from those you want, or think you need.
You may like the lessons or think them irrelevant or stupid.
Three: There are no mistakes, only lessons.
Growth is a process of trial, error and experimentation.
You can learn as much from failure as you can from success, maybe more!
(perhaps the only real mistake is not learning the lesson.)
Four: A lesson is repeated until it is learned.
A lesson will be presented to you in various forms until you have learned it.
When you have learned it,
(as evidenced by a change in your attitude and behaviour)
then you can go on to the next lesson.
Five: If you don’t learn easy lessons, they get harder.
External problems are a precise reflection of your internal state.
When you clear inner obstructions, your outside world changes.
Pain is one way the universe gets your attention.
Six: Learning lessons does not end.
There is no stage in life that does not contain some lessons.
If you are alive, there are still lessons to be learned!
Seven: “There” is no better than “here”.
When your “there” has become a “here”,
you will simply discover another “there”
that will again look better than your here”.
Don’t be fooled into believing that the unattainable is better than what you have.
Eight: You always get what you want.
Your subconscious rightly determines what energies, experiences and people you attract.
Therefore the only foolproof way to know what you want, is to look at what you have.
Nine: You can get there from here!
A way exists... You personally can find it!
Your life is up to you
You have all the tools and resources you need.
What you create with those tools and resources, is up to you.
Unless you change your direction, you may end up where you are headed.
Through desire, goal setting and unflagging effort, you can have anything you want.
Persistence is the key to success.
There are no victims; only students.
Take charge of your life (or somebody else will).
Ten: Others are merely mirrors of you.
You cannot love or hate something about another person,
unless it reflects something you love or hate about yourself.
When tempted to criticise others, ask yourself why you feel so strongly.
Eleven: Your answers lie within you.
The solutions to all of life’s problems lie within your grasp.
You know more than you have heard or read or been told.
Much more than you know you know!
All you need to do is ask, look, listen and trust.
Twelve: You are most likely to forget all this.
Unless you consistently stay focussed on the goals you have set for yourself,
everything you have just read won’t mean a thing.
Thirteen: You can choose to remind yourself.
You can choose to remind yourself as often as necessary,
to keep yourself on your chosen course.
THE RULES FOR BEING HUMAN
When you were born, you didn’t come with an ‘owner’s manual’.
Cherie Carter-Scott created what she called “The Rules for Being Human”.
Many people have found these guidelines make life work better.
A lot of people have made their own amendments to the original version.
Here is my version (Very little of it is original)
One: You will receive a body.
You may like it or hate it, but it will be yours for as long as you live.
How you take care of it or fail to take care of it can make an enormous difference to the quality of your life.
Two: You will be presented with lessons.
You are enrolled in a full time informal school called life.
Each person, animal, object or occurrence can be your teacher.
Each day, you will be presented with opportunities to learn what you need to know.
The lessons presented are often completely different from those you want, or think you need.
You may like the lessons or think them irrelevant or stupid.
Three: There are no mistakes, only lessons.
Growth is a process of trial, error and experimentation.
You can learn as much from failure as you can from success, maybe more!
(perhaps the only real mistake is not learning the lesson.)
Four: A lesson is repeated until it is learned.
A lesson will be presented to you in various forms until you have learned it.
When you have learned it,
(as evidenced by a change in your attitude and behaviour)
then you can go on to the next lesson.
Five: If you don’t learn easy lessons, they get harder.
External problems are a precise reflection of your internal state.
When you clear inner obstructions, your outside world changes.
Pain is one way the universe gets your attention.
Six: Learning lessons does not end.
There is no stage in life that does not contain some lessons.
If you are alive, there are still lessons to be learned!
Seven: “There” is no better than “here”.
When your “there” has become a “here”,
you will simply discover another “there”
that will again look better than your here”.
Don’t be fooled into believing that the unattainable is better than what you have.
Eight: You always get what you want.
Your subconscious rightly determines what energies, experiences and people you attract.
Therefore the only foolproof way to know what you want, is to look at what you have.
Nine: You can get there from here!
A way exists... You personally can find it!
Your life is up to you
You have all the tools and resources you need.
What you create with those tools and resources, is up to you.
Unless you change your direction, you may end up where you are headed.
Through desire, goal setting and unflagging effort, you can have anything you want.
Persistence is the key to success.
There are no victims; only students.
Take charge of your life (or somebody else will).
Ten: Others are merely mirrors of you.
You cannot love or hate something about another person,
unless it reflects something you love or hate about yourself.
When tempted to criticise others, ask yourself why you feel so strongly.
Eleven: Your answers lie within you.
The solutions to all of life’s problems lie within your grasp.
You know more than you have heard or read or been told.
Much more than you know you know!
All you need to do is ask, look, listen and trust.
Twelve: You are most likely to forget all this.
Unless you consistently stay focussed on the goals you have set for yourself,
everything you have just read won’t mean a thing.
Thirteen: You can choose to remind yourself.
You can choose to remind yourself as often as necessary,
to keep yourself on your chosen course.
Replies to This Discussion
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Permalink Reply by Dennis Atkinson on -
I like it
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Permalink Reply by Sophie-Rose Parker on -
Great !
I have seen a few versions of this over the years, Some have diluted/distorted the original.
Your version seems to include all of the original, with some very excellent additions/modifications
It was good to be reminded.
Sophie-Rose
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Permalink Reply by Glen Hoyle on -
Hey Sophie,
Long time no see!
Hi Fable,
Great stuff,
Looks like you have added to it since last time I saw it?
Glen
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Permalink Reply by janadra on -
I have shared versions of this for many years. I wish I could find all those people in order to share your version of #12 and your #13.
thanks
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Permalink Reply by James Malone on -
Fable, this is my favorite version of this, would it be OK to share this with the readers of my newsletter, giving a proper credit and back link to you of course? Jim
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Permalink Reply by Fable Goodman on -
James Malone said:Fable, this is my favorite version of this, would it be OK to share this with the readers of my newsletter, giving a proper credit and back link to you of course? Jim
ha ha Thanks Jim,
be my guest, but do make sure you include the acknowledgment of Cherie Carter-Scott.
Love and hugs,
Fable
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Permalink Reply by Kent Fullarton on
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Thanks Fable. I made a copy and saved it in a Word file. I need to be reminded now and then, Kent.
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Permalink Reply by melissa sweet on -
Love it,
It is always great to be reminded of these things.
Mel
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