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  1. #81
    Quote Originally Posted by wilson View Post
    I also do that, including when I'm driving around the neighborhood or standing in my driveway/front yard. Several people per day look a me like I'm completely insane...seriously. It's really kind of sad.
    Try walking around and waving in a neighborhood in Southern California.

  2. #82
    My dad's advice to me when he dropped me off at college: "Don't sit on anyone's bed without asking first."

  3. #83
    Join Date
    Feb 2007
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    Los Angeles

    Thanks Allen for a great thread

    End each day with 3 things for which you are thankful/grateful.

    Start each day with 3 ways you can make things better for others.

    Determine that each person you meet/talk with will feel better because of their interaction with you.

    Stop worrying so much.

    Learn something new every day.

    Yell and scream and jump up and down when watching your favorite sports -- instead of a couch potato, you can turn it into an excercise routine.

  4. #84
    Leave things better than you found them.

  5. #85
    Quote Originally Posted by 2535Miles View Post
    Try walking around and waving in a neighborhood in Southern California.
    You send me a ticket to come visit and I'll give it a try.


    My father's advice when he dropped me off at college - there is more to an education than books.

  6. #86
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    Quote Originally Posted by CameronBornAndBred View Post
    I keep looking at this thread and enjoying it, but haven't added anything yet. Here's my 2 cents and basically what I live by.

    "In 5 years it won't matter"

    Meaning that as bad as anything seems the moment you are experiencing it, it will not affect your life in 5 years. There is one caveat to this..if you are standing before a judge and he hands you a 6 year or longer sentence.
    But I don't plan on being in jail at any given point in 5 years, so whatever I'm feeling right now that totally bums me out will be long forgotten and won't matter, and I will be focused on something new, whether good or bad. Either way, I'm still keeping on and living life. And as far as I'm concerned, that's all I'm here for, is the experience. It might be bad, it might be good, and if done right it's shared, and a little of it is left behind when your finished with it.

    Amen. I usually use 10 years; this is a great way to gain perspective when the truly awful things in life happen.

    Thanks for the reminder...

    brumby

  7. #87
    Quote Originally Posted by brumby041 View Post
    Amen. I usually use 10 years; this is a great way to gain perspective when the truly awful things in life happen.

    Thanks for the reminder...

    brumby
    Actually, in my experience, it is often about 24 hours until it won't really matter, the rest is just holding on to resentments.

  8. #88
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    Feb 2007
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    Atlanta, Georgia

    More useless personal rules

    Some of Jaytoc's long held personal rules:

    1. When driving on a limited access highway, exit the off ramp smartly;

    2. Judge a restaurant by the quality of its bread, and the speed with which the water glasses are refilled;

    3. Don't be the third person in a two person debate (except as an act of mercy);

    4. Try to attend the highest quality school that admits you;

    5. "Comparisons are inherently odious";

    6. Don't trust anyone who doesn't have a soft spot for animals;

    7. A pizza is a cheese and tomato pie - yep, that's all, folks - no pineapple, hamburger meat, or bar-b-que chicken.

  9. #89
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    Mary's Place
    "Simplify, simplify, simplify..." - Thoreau

    P.S. I hit the wiki for that "Pottery Barn rule" and was surprised to read Friedman is trying to claim credit in 2003. There's a Springsteen song from The River, from 1980...

    You Can Look (But You Better Not Touch)

    Yesterday I went shopping buddy down to the mall
    Looking for something pretty I could hang on my wall
    I knocked over a lamp before it hit the floor I caught it
    A salesman turned around said, "boy, you break that thing you bought it"

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