Rules for Being Human

I have seen this list in various forms/incarnations. This one was shared by Fable Goodman, a.k.a Lawrie Shaw, wonderful hypnotherapist from the UK.


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 focused 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.