Ten Laws of Life

1. You either “get it” or you don’t.   Strategy:  Become one of those who “gets it”.

2. You create your own experience.  Strategy:  Acknowledge and accept accountability for your life.

3. People do what works.  Strategy:  Identify the payoffs that drive your behaviour and that of others.

4. You cannot change what you do not acknowledge.  Strategy:  Get real with yourself about life and everybody in it.

5. Life rewards action.  Strategy:  Make careful decisions and then act on them.

6. There is no reality; only perception.  Strategy:  Identify the filters through which you view the world.

7. Life is managed; it is not cured.  Strategy:  Learn to take charge of your life.

8. We teach people how to treat us.  Strategy:  Own, rather than complain about, how people treat you.

9. There is power in forgiveness.  Strategy:  Open your eyes to what anger and resentment are doing to you.

10. You have to name it before you can claim it.  Strategy:  Get clear about what you want and take your turn.

Life Strategies by Phillip c. McGraw, Ph.D.