My List of ‘Commandments’ (or, “How I intend to keep my sanity and make sense of things”)

I’ve been listening to Gretchen Rubin’s “The Happiness Project” while driving to work in the morning, and while it won’t necessarily make my top 20 audiobooks of all time, I must admit that I am intrigued by the idea of her “Twelve Commandments of Happiness”.

Intrigued enough to consider some “commandments” of my own – not necessarily “Happiness commandments”, but something to come back to when the chips are down or I’m having a sense of humor failure or when my feet hurt and I need some perspective.

My guess is that the list will be a Work in Progress for a good, long while still, but here goes (in no particular order)

1. In a world where I can be anything, be kind
2. Whatever happened is the only thing that could have happened
3. There isn’t going to be a trial
4. Trust the process
5. Guard my boundaries, cherish my spoons
6. Make the higher choice
7. Live lightly
8. There’s a poem for that
9. Nothing changes if nothing changes
10. . Write every day
11. I belong deeply to myself

…and if none of these work, the answer is probably ‘Water’.

To be continued…