Life's Ten Simple Rules.

LIFE'S TEN SIMPLE RULES

By Bill Cottringer

     It seems like we have to wade through some pretty deep chaos to get to real simplicity just on the other side of too much complexity. In other words, it is often a life journey to get to the useful simple stuff. Here are ten very true and useful rules I learned to follow the hard way.

1.  No deposit, no withdrawal; no negotiation, even with plastic.

2.  Fairness is an imaginary standard that makes judgment of unfairness harder to bare; Life isn't fair, but compared to what?

3.  You can't eat soup with a fork. There are certain rules and there are even correct and incorrect rules of following the rules and that is where all the failures occur.

4.  Success is often a matter of persevering a series of failures and learning to delete the nonsense from the lessons of sense left over while you are failing.

5.  When you are in a hole and its keeps getting deeper—For God's sake man, quit digg'n or at least downsize from a shovel to a spoon.

6.  There is actually less having in a life of hoarding, but much more abundance of real wealth in giving and sharing.

7.  Nothing under the sun is new; it is just old and retold in new and unusual ways, but that is often the creativity that solves problems.

8.  Only those who know enough is enough ever have enough; they learn the art of knowing when the point of no return is coming before it comes and goes.

9.  Yellow lights mean "watch out:" when you keep running them the red one is bound to catch you.

10. When the doing becomes enough reward itself, you finally get the point.

     Life really doesn't have to be that complicated unless we are weirdly addicted to chaos satiation. Keep wading through the muddy water to get to the bank on the other side. More to come.