( I carry this note wherever i go, had digitally copied it and printed it to wherever walls i stay , to keep me reminded :) ) I'd like to share this to my friends here.)
1. Begin and end your day with God.
2. Welcome each day with a smile. Thank God for the opportunity of being alive.
3. Pray from the heart. Share with God your agony and ecstasy. He is listening all the time.
4. Strive, strike, and never yield. Do more. Need less.
5. Remember friends and loved ones on their birthdays.
6. Smile often. Laugh a lot. Cry once in a while.
7. Dream big but don't try to reach for the sky.
8. Learn to control your emotions. Smile though your heart is aching.
9. Be patient with your dealings.
10. Organize your day's agenda. Don't mix up things. Do one thing at a time.
11. Be a nature lover. Appreciate the rainbows and bluebirds in the sky.
12. Spend few minutes of your time everyday with yourself: meditate, recollect, and reflect.
13. Take time to smell the flowers.
14. Brisk walk. Don't run. Chew food slowly. Life is not a contest.
15. Eat like a king for breakfast, a prince at lunch, and a pauper at dinner.
16. Say only nice things about a person.
17. Don't be a perfectionist in an imperfect world.
18. Live each day as it comes along.
19. Be a good instrument of God.
20. Think twice before you say or do things.
21. Avoid hurting people. Reconstruct your sentences. Modify the tone of your voice.
22. Stay calm amidst anger or turbulence.
23. Take care of your heart. It's the only one you've got. We only live once.
24. Live for today. Seize the moment. Tomorrow may not come.
25. Be a happy person. Spread joy and happiness to all people, regardless of creed and color.
26. Don't expect too much from life.
27. Presume and assume nothing.
28. Focus more on the positive side of things rather than the negative.
29. Listen more. Talk less. Give the benefits of the doubt.
30. Accept people for what they are and not for what you want them to be.
31. Come to terms with yourself. Don't be a Jack-of-all-trades.
32. Don't mix business with pleasure.
33. Follow the Boy Scout's motto: Be prepared always.
34. Make your past a gateway to your present, and your present a gate way to your future.
35. Eat and drink moderately and be merry.
36. Reach out to others and share life's blessings.
37. When you're in the Philippines, live like a Filipino.
38. Enjoy what you have in life. Don't try to ask for more.
39. Be grateful for little or big favors done by friends in the past.
40. Don't let fame and fortune transform you into someone unreachable. Stay humble.
41. Count not the years added to your life but the life added to your years.
42. Spend a quantity of quality time with your kids. Youth happens only once in a lifetime.
43. Don't compare yourself with others.
44. Enjoy the fruit of your labor. Take time to pamper yourself.
45. Create a book of memories. Celebrate special occasions with loved ones.
46. Believe that nothing will happen to you today that God and you cannot handle together.
47. Grow old gracefully with time.
48. Live life to the fullest. Strive to be happy.
49. Be at peace with the world.
50. Open your arms to change, but don't let go of your values.
51. We cannot have everything in this world.
52. Realize that we are all but passing visitors on a limited tourist visa.
53. Do your best in everything so that when the final curtain falls, you can tell yourself: "It's been such a wonderful journey. Thank you, Lord, for friends and good times together."
you can also view this @ my facebook notes:
http://www.facebook.com/smadrazo?v=app_2347471856#/notes/sunshine-madrazo/53-rules-of-life-and-living/121327120888
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