03-17-10

Life Rules

This is an ever grow­ing list of my life rules as they come to mind.

  1. Love the Lord your God with all your heart, soul, and mind
  2. Attempt to do all things to God’s glory, in the best inter­est of mankind, and to my own good, profit, and plea­sure with­out wor­ry­ing about how long the endeavor may take or the tri­als that may be faced.
  3. Love your neigh­bor as your­self by count­ing oth­ers as more sig­nif­i­cant than your­self and putting their inter­ests above your own
  4. Do noth­ing that con­tra­dicts your faith
  5. Always take the most unique, least avail­able opportunity
  6. Live by the rule of 3s
  7. Never burn your bridges
  8. It’s all about who you know, not what you know
  9. Live with as lit­tle inhi­bi­tions as possible
  10. Try to view life through other people’s per­spec­tive and respond to them accordingly
  11. Noth­ing is worth loos­ing sleep over
  12. Live within your income, and never have any debt
  13. If any­one speaks badly about you, your life should be lived in such a way that no one would believe them
  14. Never live the sta­tus quo but always proac­tively engag­ing my mind and body to find ways to ful­fill the pre­vi­ous goal.
  15. When­ever I fail to main­tain these prin­ci­pals to get back up and persevere.
  16. Live to fullest no mat­ter my age, phys­i­cal capa­bil­i­ties, or unfa­vor­able sit­u­a­tions I may find myself in.
  17. Never do any­thing that I would regret hav­ing done dif­fer­ently in the last hour of my life.
  18. Act and speak in all humil­ity as if I were the worst and ugli­est per­son on the face of this earth.
  19. Never to judge a sin­gle per­son because of their actions whether they prac­tice a lifestyle I don’t agree with or per­son­ally attack me but to remind myself that my life is full of it’s own faults.
  20. When I feel pain I want to auto­mat­i­cally be reminded of Chris­tians all over the world who suf­fer phys­i­cally for their faith.
  21. Always look­ing for oppor­tu­ni­ties to show char­ity, and when oppor­tu­ni­ties are found to give lib­er­ally and with­out reservations.
  22. Never to speak neg­a­tively about any­one unless it is called upon by some­one with author­ity and/​or it will bring about the most good.
  23. Fre­quently do things that would seem unlikely to be done by me.
  24. To be at peace with all men to the best of my abilities.
  25. To be known as a faith­ful man in all that I do.
  26. Spend my nights in med­i­ta­tion of the cur­rent day and how I may improved the next day.
  27. Always do those things I wish I had done when I see oth­ers do it.

Andrew is a 20-​​something Chris­t­ian who adopted a sim­plis­tic lifestyle after grad­u­at­ing from col­lege and real­iz­ing the van­ity of rush­ing around and all the mate­ri­al­ism of our soci­ety. He wants to squeeze the most out of life and live each day extra­or­di­nar­ily through sim­ple means. Andrew is the author and edi­tor of Live [Sim­ply] Free, and con­tin­ues on the jour­ney of declut­ter­ing and sim­pli­fy­ing his life. Fol­low him on Twit­ter @Andrew_Randazzo.
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