Everyone has rules they apply to their own life and the things that they do, here are mine:
1. Despite manufacturers "claims" that their batteries have no charge memory, never place on charge any rechargeable battery or portable device with an internal battery that has charge remaining. They must be flat before being placed on charge.
2. Fill a fuel tank to the top. Cars like to have a full stomach just like you do.
3. Do not have unnecessary icons on one’s desktop screen; be a tidy computer user.
4. Tune a guitar string up to the note, not down to the note.
5. Stir coffee anticlockwise, always, for this is correct.
6. Don’t carry unnecessary keys with you. If you don’t need the keys then ditch them.
7. Never ever wear a cell phone, or anything for that matter, on your belt, unless you are batman or a policeman.
8. Pocket change is to be placed in a bowl every night upon returning home. When the bowl overflows to the floor it can be counted and exchanged for a guitar.
9. Use only one pen until the ink runs out. Only then have you earned the right to have another pen.
10. Never read more than one book at once lest you become confused and discouraged, never to finish either of them.
Obsessive compulsive - I don't know. Tell me yours and then we'll decide!
Friday, May 4, 2007
My Ten Commandments
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I add a hearty affirmation to #2 (there's something extremely satisfying about adding more fuel in your tank than the specified capacity of that tank).
#6 - for sure, less is more, embrace simplicity.
#7 - yep, Inspector Gadget was cool in the 80s. Now, not so much.
#8 - absolutely. Put the gold coins in a piggy bank and in no time you might have the GDP of some third world countries...and the capacity to rescue them from poverty.
#10 - love to agree, but I'm way to guilty for my support to mean anything at all.
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#11 - care for the apostrophe...it's done you no harm.
#12 - always embrace the number 12 - It's beautiful.
#13 - Avoid Comic Sans. It's of the devil and a product of the fall.
#14 - never add things to coffee that should be put on icecream
#15 - Don't try and win the heaviest wallet competition, clean regularly.
#16 - Don't tear pages out of a journal. You wouldn't do it to a friend would you?
#17 - Moisturise
#18 - Remember the sabbath and keep it holy
#19 - Bumper stickers... yeah, no
#20 - Don't waste your coffee quotient on bad coffee. Send it back or start again.
Rule
#1 Make no rule (ur bound to break them)
amen simon, to all of those, amen!
Awww...c'mon Serge that's no fun.
I reckon I've got one for you.
Serge's Commandment #21
Always be taking photos for the blog
"Amen" to #3!
#7 I take issue with: on a work-site of any kind a multi-tool on your belt is of infinite value
And I would add #22: Sleep when your body tells you to
Sandy (neat-freak-site-working-friend-of-Karyn)
Unfortunately Mr Field and Mr Elliot, I have broken most of these 'cept #2 & #4, and I love to have things neat as well. I always fill up my car to top, and I don't play any instrument. Well living the life of a travelling pilgrim, its very tough to keep self rules.... Cheers
1) Play a piano, much more classy and less fuss tuning!!
2) Feel free to abuse grammar' and punctuation every, now and then
3) Do a good deed at least daily and don't tell anyone. Secrecy is a godly thing sometimes.
4) Take time out to enjoy the so called simple things like the smell of rain (Simey, go nuts tiger!!!), the feel of grass under your feet, the light cracking through dawn.. you get the picture.
5) Never undervalue a simple smile or witty one liner.
6) Associated with #5, have a good laugh, belly laugh even daily.
7) Feed the spirit and mind always.
8) We are here for people and for one another. Make sure what I do has an outworking manifestation in someone else. How do my actions and behaviour affect others?
9) Play with children, see their innocence and embrace it.
10) Once a week eat something delectable.
What number are we up to? I'm going Roman:
i)Be worthy of admin staff. If you fail in this, you deserve all the ills that will be visited on your head.
ii) Use the right tool for the job.
iii)Coordinate shoes and bags. Just do.
iv)Always wear gloves to wash dishes; your hands will age fast enough on their own.
v) Only the competent and brave can work with more than two fonts on a page.
vi) Life's too short to choose bags because they're practical.
1. don't hover–-it's creepy.
2. eat quietly. while you're chewing with your mouth closed, your dining companions should be able to hear themselves talking.
3. have a go. statistically it is impossible for everyone to be "above average". this includes you. embrace that reality and have a go anyway.
4. mobile phones. (a) they should sound like phones (b) your existence is not validated because you're at the beck-and-call of the universe. there are definitely times to be strategically uncontactable. and that's ok.
5. get global. travel, read newspapers from all over the world, talk to people. don't live in a cul-de-sac (is that even English? no, it's french for "bottom of the sack"), even if it's just your headspace.
6. examine your life, regularly. journal, reflect, talk with trusted folk about matters of substance & be open to sharing the process of life, not just the conclusions.
7. walk the shortest distance between two places.
8. never, ever, ask something of Person C via Person B (eg. Person A to Person C: "Perhaps Person A would like to help you with that?") if you want something, ask directly.
Not sure what we're up to but I realised this week I had another.
So...
Rule#112
Never refer to yourself in the third person (unless for the sake of humour or because you like the feeling of sounding like a one-person multinational corporation) and do your best not to refer to another person in the third person while they're in the same conversation with you.
ie. Person A, B, C in conversation:
Person A to Person B:
I think we would love to see B spending more time in the kitchen.
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