THE RULES FOR BEING HUMAN

1. You will receive a body. You may like it or hate it, but it will be
yours for the entire period this time around.

2. You will learn lessons. You are enrolled in a full-time, informal
school called Life. Each day in this school you will have the
opportunity to learn lessons. You may like the lessons or think
them irrelevant and stupid.

3. There are no mistakes, only lessons. Growth is a process of trial
and error, experimentation. The "failed" experiments are as much a
part of the process as the experiment that ultimately "works."

4. A lesson is repeated until it is learned. A lesson will be
presented to you in various forms until you have learned it. Then
you can go on to the next lesson.

5. Learning lessons does not end. There is no part of life that does
not contain its lessons. If you are alive, there are lessons to be
learned.

6. "There" is no better than "here." When your "there" has
become a "here," you will simply obtain another "there" that again
looks better than "here."

7. Others are merely mirrors of you. You cannot love or hate
something about another person unless it reflects to you something
you love or hate about yourself.

8. What you make of your life is up to you. You have all the tools
and resources you need; what you do with them is up to you. The
choice is yours.

9. The answers lie inside you. The answers to life's questions lie
inside you. All you need to do is look, listen, and trust

In Leadership, Friendship & Service

Thomas E. Brown Jr.
tebrown@lonestar.jpl.utsa.edu
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