Greetings Kamazooies and Happy Friday!!!

I would like to repost with a vengeance today. After a recent personal setback, I found myself looking for inspiration today and I came across a great Forbes post on 10 Golden Rules for Living the Good Life.

To give full credit, I will pass on that this is a summary of a book written by authors M. A. Soupios and Panos Mourdoukoutas. While the complete article is available at the link included above, I will summarize the points for your quick weekend review:

  1. Examine life, engage life with vengeance; always search for new pleasures and new destines to reach with your mind.
  2.  Worry only about the things that are in your control, the things that can be influenced and changed by your actions, not about the things that are beyond your capacity to direct or alter.
  3. Treasure Friendship, the reciprocal attachment that fills the need for affiliation. Friendship cannot be acquired in the market place, but must be nurtured and treasured in relations imbued with trust and amity.
  4. Experience True Pleasure. Avoid shallow and transient pleasures. Keep your life simple. Seek calming pleasures that contribute to peace of mind. True pleasure is disciplined and restrained.
  5. Master Yourself. Resist any external force that might delimit thought and action; stop deceiving yourself, believing only what is personally useful and convenient; complete liberty necessitates a struggle within, a battle to subdue negative psychological and spiritual forces that preclude a healthy existence; self mastery requires ruthless candor.
  6. Avoid Excess. Live life in harmony and balance. Avoid excesses. Even good things, pursued or attained without moderation, can become a source of misery and suffering.
  7. Be a Responsible Human Being. Approach yourself with honesty and thoroughness; maintain a kind of spiritual hygiene; stop the blame-shifting for your errors and shortcomings.
  8. Don’t Be a Prosperous Fool. Prosperity by itself, is not a cure-all against an ill-led life, and may be a source of dangerous foolishness. Money is a necessary but not a sufficient condition for the good life, for happiness and wisdom.
  9. Don’t Do Evil to Others. Evildoing is a dangerous habit, a kind of reflex too quickly resorted to and too easily justified that has a lasting and damaging effect upon the quest for the good life. Harming others claims two victims—the receiver of the harm, and the victimizer, the one who does harm.
  10. Be kind - Kindness towards others tends to be rewarded. Kindness to others is a good habit that supports and reinforces the quest for the good life. Helping others bestows a sense of satisfaction that has two beneficiaries—the beneficiary, the receiver of the help, and the benefactor, the one who provides the help.

Looks like I've got my work cut out for me this weekend to try to follow these rules.  At least they've refocused me from worrying about my own situation (Point 2 in the list) and focus on improving my view of my situation (Point 5 in the list).

Wishing you and your family a Happy Friday and a great weekend.

 

 

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Comment by Brian Ritchie on January 24, 2015 at 11:50am

Very good post Amanda. Definitely good food for thought this weekend. Thanks!

Comment by Jack A. Langedijk on January 25, 2015 at 3:11pm

 hank you for sharing!....and...Yes its a great list...the last one is my favorite...being kind! Although One that is not really there...and I think is one that lately I have found sings true is--BE Grateful--showing and sharing gratitude is one of the most amazing ways to feel your life has worth!!

Comment by Brian Ritchie on January 25, 2015 at 3:35pm

That's a good addition Jack. We do have a lot to be grateful for indeed. Thanks for sharing the post Amanda!

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