Secrets of Life

1. Love

Life requires that you love it. Choose each day to reach out to someone, to be grateful for the wind, the air, the sun, the dirt beneath your feet. Be thankful you're alive, then love life, love yourself, and love those around you.

2. Depression

For you who tell yourselves you can't love life, it is because you love a lie and the lie becomes your master. When you decide to stop loving the lie you will stop bowing to it. Then you can start on the journey to becoming master of your life.

3. Anger

The root of all anger is pain. Identify your pain and then give it comfort.

4. Social behavior

You are better than no one, and no one is better than you. All people are equal. If someone told you differently, they lied to you.

5. Power

Power is a lie. The more you try to control others, the less influence you will have. The more freedom you give to others, the more influence you will have.

6. Bullying

Any pain you inflict upon others, whether physical or emotional, will come back to you. If you tell yourself that controlling others makes you powerful, you lie to yourself.

7. Attitude

You can refuse to be influenced by negative attitudes around you. Attitudes are decisions. Decide to form your own attitude, regardless of those around you.

8. Faith

You can replace "I can't" with "I think I can" anytime you want. You can replace "It won't happen" with "God can help make it happen" anytime you want.

9. Religion

Scientists have learned that the human brain is wired to believe in a Supreme being. Fighting against this will depress you.

10. Control Freaks

It is human nature to resist compulsion. When you try to control others, you incite rebellion. Dictators and control freaks can only have temporary power.

11. Finances

If you question every purchase your spouse makes their frustration will tempt them to spend more and more. If you give them a reasonable and fair budget, they will be tempted to abide by it. The same goes for every company department in the world.

12. Sibling Conflict

The African Dinka tribe, which lives in simple yet functional conditions, does not allow a child to hit another. Bullying is stopped at a young age. When we let our children hit each other, we are less civilized than they are.

13. Parenting
Being a parent is the hardest thing you'll ever do, and the most rewarding.

14. Kids

If you think kids are a nuisance, someone probably once treated you like a nuisance. This was a lie and you knew it. Forgive them, and try to correct the lie.

15. Kids

If children are a nuisance, adults are a mega-nuisance. It we can't tolerate a child, we become intolerable.

16. Babies

No man or woman who wasn't a wuss, ever died from a baby crying on an airplane.

17. Success

It isn't never falling, it's rising every time you fall.