Friday, April 06, 2012

A Commentary On Going Back To The Basics

Everyone experiences a slump, a period of life going against you, a string of losses, or feeling down. We all experience feeling depressed, sad, and asking ourselves “What am I doing?” There are bad moments waiting for us. We forget our strengths. There are times we are going to be lost, lose focus, and need help. Sometimes we must solve our problems or refocus ourselves. One approach is going back to the starting point; in other words, go back to the basics.

Review your core skills, beliefs, and principles. Refresh your knowledge. Think back to how you got started. Perhaps you need a distraction, a break to refocus and remember. I share three sets of my life basics. The first set is my daily rules of life. The second set is life lessons I learned from my first 300 blogs. And the third set is life lessons I learned going back to school at De Anza College.

Here are my daily rules of life:

1. Don't criticize, condemn, and complain, and don't compare with others.
2. Don't act like a jerk or bitch.
3. Always speak calmly and be calm.
4. Don't daydream when driving.
5. Keep your head up high . . . look at their cute face when talking.
6. Breath with your nose and stand up straight.

Here is a summary of my top 30 blogs from my first 300 blogs:

01. Never take anything and anyone for granted.
02. Trust my gut feeling.
03. My [earlier] daily top five rules for living: (1) Don't criticize, condemn, and complain, and don't compare with others. (2) Don't act like a jerk or bitch. (3) Always speak calmly and be calm. (4) Don't daydream when driving. (5) Keep your head up high . . . look at [their] cute face when talking.
04. Continue to live life finding what you want to do.
05. Never judge a person by their appearance.
06. Remember to learn from you failures as well as your successes.
07. It takes patience to learn who a person is for long-term family, friend, business, and romantic relationships.
08. Do something else to take your mind off something you hate.
09. Meet new people and make new friends continuously.
10. It's OK to be alone.

11. You must earn what you want in life.
12. You are responsible for yourself.
13. Schools have summer vacations; life doesn't have summer vacations.
14. Age is just a number.
15. Have courage to say goodbye to anything precious.
16. First years, first impressions, first go-around, and first successes are equally important as second years, second impressions, second go-around, and second successes.
17. Everyone has the right to find happiness.
18. Be patient. Never rush.
19. Take life one day at a time. Have fun, learn, and enjoy.
20. If you talk the talk, you must stand by your talk.

21. Do something to receive something.
22. Money is a way to help people, create action, and show appreciation.
23. Fight the pain, the suffering, and the struggles to keep living.
24. Use your mind to see.
25. Time is the ultimate judge.
26. Live the present. Live the moment.
27. Wait 24 hours for goods or services less than $100 and 48 hours for greater than $100 to avoid the urge to splurge.
28. Do the little things and they add up in time.
29. Life is a marathon, not a sprint.
30. When you in a jam, go back to the basics.

To read the 300th blog in its entirety, click here: http://ininblog.blogspot.com/2008/12/300.html

And here are the lessons I learned at De Anza College:

1. Everyone is human.
2. Go with the flow.
3. Timing is everything.
4. Use it or lose it.

Don’t take life for granted such that you never need to review your basics. You remember everything and nothing negative happens to you. That’s wrong. There are times in our lives everyone needs to stop and take a breath. Time outs and checkpoints are part of life.

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