My Pink Mommy, Trish Rankin, got a New Years email that inspired her to compile this list of rules to live by in 2010. Take it away, Mommy!
Hi Pinkies! I’m not a big believer in telling people how to live. Even with my children, I always believed that you raise your children by leading with a good example. But sometimes we lose our mojo, fall off our path, and need a little help guiding our way back to health, happiness, and peace. So here are a few tips to live by in 2010:
Health:
1. Drink plenty of water.
2. Eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince and dinner
like a beggar.
3. Consciously buy food grown locally.
4. Live with the 3 E’s – Energy, Enthusiasm and Empathy.
5. Live in the moment.
6. Reduce, reuse, recycle. Be kind to our Earth. She will reward you with clean water, clean air and pure food.
7. Read more books than you did in 2009.
8. Sit in meditation or prayer for at least 10 minutes each day.
9. Sleep no less than 7 hours each night.
10. Exercise – move your body in walking, stretching or resistance movement for 30 minutes every day.
Your reward is a stronger body, more energy and a more alert mind.
Personality:
11. Don’t compare your life to others’. You have no idea what
their journey is all about.
12. Don’t have negative thoughts about things you cannot control.
Instead invest your energy asking God or the Universe to help.
13. Make a new friend, you can never have too many.
14. Don’t take yourself so seriously. No one else does.
15. Don’t waste your precious energy on gossip.
16. Dream more while you are awake.
17. Envy is a waste of time. You already have all you need.
18. Forget issues of the past. Don’t remind your partner with
mistakes of the past. That will ruin your present happiness.
19. Life is too short to waste time hating anyone. Try love instead, it works.
20. Make peace with your past so it won’t spoil the present. It is the journey that counts not the end result.
21. Realize that life is a school and you are here to learn.
Problems are a part of the curriculum that appear and fade- but unlike calculus,
the lessons you learn will last a lifetime..
22. Smile and laugh more, belly laugh-it will make you healthier.
23. You don’t have to win every argument. Agree to disagree.
Society:
24. Call your family often.
25. Each day give something good to others. Be the bright spot in someone’s day, especially a stranger.
26. Forgive everyone for everything.
27. Spend time with children and the elderly. They will remind you how to live.
28. Try to make at least three people smile each day.
29. What other people think of you is none of your business.
30. Your job won’t take care of you when you are sick. Your family and friends will.
Life:
31. Do the right thing!
32. Get rid of anything that isn’t useful, beautiful or joyful.
33. GOD heals everything, either physically or spiritually and sometimes both.
34. However good or bad a situation is, it will change.
35. No matter how you feel, get up, dress up and show up.
36. The best is yet to come.
37. When you awake alive in the morning, thank GOD for your life!
38. Burn no bridges- you may need one to cross the rough river of life!
39. Be kind to you, You are the best friend you will ever have.
40. Live in gratitude for all of the blessings in your life.
There you go, Pinkies. I’m sure there are more, but these are the guidelines I post on my wall to remind me how to live. I hope they will help you too!
Happy New Year! May all your dreams come true in 2010.
With lots of love,
Trish
Tags: joy, joyful life, mojo, tips for living, Trish Rankin
Thank you Lissa and Trish. I think that everyone should have a copy of this and read it daily. Sometimes it is the simple and most basic ideas that are the most important. Imagine if the world followed these simple “rules”, then Lissa, your vision would be realized. I think the Pink Effect is the vehicle towards achieveing this. Thank you for sharing.
Pinkie Love,
Caren
Trish, thank you so much. As always, your wisdom is inspiring. This list embodies many of my intentions for the new year. I may just print this out and hang it somewhere so that I’m frequently reminded to life fully, joyfully, and with dignity. Looking forward to seeing you soon – lots of love! xoxoxo
I must say that my favorite rule is ‘9. Sleep no less than 7 hours each night.’ lol.
But in all seriousness, this is a GREAT post and I am going to share it with a few of my Pinkies tonight. XO
Trish- you are a rock star.
What a fantastic and inspiring list! There is nothing on it that I disagree with. I will definitely need to print and refer to it regularly. Happy 2010!
Trish, I love you so vey much, you are pure “JOY”!!
Happy New Year.
Reading over “THE LIST”, thinking, yup, yup, yup, do that, do that too, and that one too, than I read number 36 and it takes me so by surprise. “The Best Is Yet To Come”, tears flooding down my face, as if someone had said, let me remind you of something you may have forgotten along the way. No matter where you are today, where you have come from, never forget the countless possibilities for our days tomorrow. I seem to have along the way put the notion that the best had already happened, and perhaps I was now in a bit of a waiting station…………BUT YES, you are right, the best is yet to come. How had I lost sight of that. why was I holding onto the notion that all of my “best” had come and gone. But “The Best Is Yet To Come”, brought me to my knees with joy, with hope, with light and great eagerness for my future. It rattled me, shook my internal cage, woke me up a bit, and filled me with the ultimate JOY to be reminded that YES, the best IS yet to come!! Joy, your list is now the first thing I see with my morning coffee!!…………….
I am printing this off and hanging it in my office. Thank you for sharing!