Wednesday, January 1, 2014

10 New Years Resolutions You Shouldn’t Break In 2014


1. To Communicate: (Be in verbal contact; an interchange of information or ideas) Communicate more with your family and friends.  Don’t just talk AT them - in other words, don’t make the only time you talk to them is to complain.

2. To Not invalidate* Anyone.  Refusing to contribute in communication with a person is also a form of invalidation, as though they are not worth talking to or not worth actually answering a question of theirs (regarding them not worth acknowledging, their communications or even their help)

(*Invalidate: to put someone down; regard a person as less than what they are, regarding them as not important or not truthful).

3 To Grant Everyone “beingness” (Respecting an individual as a person with the same right to exist as you).  You have a human “being” in front of you.  Treat them as important as you regard yourself.

4 To Respect The Religious Beliefs Of Others.  The only reason people attack religions is because they are ignorant of those religions and invent untruths or twist facts in order to attack.  Put yourself in their shoes.  How would you feel if someone you never met or only met briefly told lies about you or twisted facts to invalidate you and make you look bad in people’s eyes?  Remember, even Buddhism and Agnosticism are regarded as religious beliefs - they may not have a god to prey to, but they believe in themselves, their abilities and have a moral code - which is much more important.

5 To Not Be Friends Or Associate With Criminals Or Wrongdoers or go into agreement with their crimes.  People with no moral compass and no honesty boast about their crimes and try to pull you into their criminal world by trying to get you to agree that their crimes like lying, cheating, stealing, disrespecting, hacking, bullying and violence is okay.  Besides, being friends with criminals and wrongdoers puts your life and your freedom at stake 95% of the time.

6 To Be Responsible For The Honesty Of Others.  If a friend is dishonest or violent, the buck stops with you!  Tell them it is NOT okay, and teach them to be honest and not violent; in thought, word or deed.

7 To Safeguard And Improve Your Environment.  This applies to yourself, your family, your friends, your town or city and even your social networking like Facebook and Twitter.  Get involved with others doing the same.

8 To Fulfill Your Obligations.  You don’t like someone dropping the ball, so don’t do it to others.  This includes your obligations to yourself.  You may enjoy helping out others by using your talents and abilities, but if you are doing it for free you are robbing yourself and allowing the person you are working for to rob you.  You are in effect telling the person you are working for that your talents, knowledge and ability are worthless.

9 To Take Responsibility For Your Actions.  This means being the cause of your actions, being accountable and not blaming others for your difficulty or even your abilities.  A person who lacks the ability to be responsible is often heard to say “You made me do it” and “Look what you made me do?”  Since they don’t believe they have an ability to cause things and don’t believe they themselves exist, they have to assign that cause to someone or something else other them themselves.  When THEY win a swimming race, instead of taking responsibility for all the training they did that helped them win, they assign the cause of their win to God or someone else.  When something goes wrong, instead of taking responsibility for THEIR lack of planning or lack of knowledge, they blame the cat, God, their physics professor... anyone but themselves.  That’s not taking responsibility or exerting influence on their environment, but being an effect of their own cause.

10 In fact, go further and treat people the way YOU would want to be treated and don’t do to others what you don’t want done to you.

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