Lessons Learned

Post date: Apr 25, 2011 6:31:37 PM

LESSONS LEARNED (and still learning)

1. Whatever breaks can be fixed.

2. Wherever you go, good things will be there.

3. Whatever bad happens to you, good people will help you.

4. Goodbye never gets easier, and the art has no master.

5. Spending money means enjoying life; hoarding money causes headaches and short temper

6. There are beautiful and ugly hearts everywhere you go.

7. Country folk are cleaner and lighter in spirit.

8. Stress, loneliness, direction-less life magnify the risk for addiction

9. Chances are, you already know who you are and what you want, and you’re not searching for yourself- you simply doubt yourself or want to be more than what you are.

10. The U.S. is home.

11. U.S. weaknesses: overconsumption of resources, greed and dissatisfaction that result in physical and mental illnesses, work too hard, too democratic and enabling, loose family bonds, operates too much by the textbook and within the lines, too much governmental involvement (petty laws), too close-doored, too restricted in passion, snobby and spoiled and ungrateful attitudes.

12. U.S. strengths: trustworthy people, polite people, law abiding citizens, financially charitable people, intellectual people, organized and reliable infrastructure, very high standard of living, low living costs, culture of self-reliance and self-determination, freedom, legal and mostly social equality between all groups, good morals, committed to making the best world possible.

13. ONE DAY AT A TIME

14. Enjoy the moment while it is here. Take lots of pictures to enjoy it later.

15. Write for memory and write to share and write to inspire and write to relax and write to organize.

16. Open your heart and home to the world.