18 Rules for Living

Here are the 18 rules for living according to the Dalai Lama. I'm posting this in my home! So many great things to remember and try to live by...

DALAI LAMA’S 18 RULES FOR LIVING 

1. Take into account that great love and great achievements involve great risk.

2. When you lose, don’t lose the lesson.

3. Follow the three Rs: Respect for self, Respect for others, Responsibility for all your actions.

4. Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.

5. Learn the rules so you know how to break them properly.

6. Don’t let a little dispute injure a great friendship.

7. When you realize you’ve made a mistake, take immediate steps to correct it.

8. Spend some time alone every day.

9. Open your arms to change, but don’t let go of your values.

10. Remember that silence is sometimes the best answer.

11. Live a good, honorable life. Then when you get older and think back, you’ll be able to enjoy
it a second time.

12. A loving atmosphere in your home is the foundation for your life.

13. In disagreements with loved ones, deal only with the current situation. Don’t bring up the
past.

14. Share your knowledge. It’s a way to achieve immortality.

15. Be gentle with the earth.

16. Once a year, go someplace you’ve never been before.

17. Remember that the best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other.

 18. Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it.

Back to School

I'm going back to school! Finally. I'm very excited about it! I've been wanting to finish my degree for years, but life keeps getting in the way. But starting January 3rd I'll be a student again! I've also decided to change my major from Education to a double major in Hotel & Tourism and Communications. I am extremely excited and nervous and impatient to start! I have so much on my plate right now, but it just feels right to get started on this goal and there's no time like the present! Please wish me luck on starting another new journey in my life:)

#75 Learn Italian or Spanish

Okay, for the record I want to learn both! But my current reading (Eat, Pray, Love) has inspired me to learn Italian! So far I can count to 10, I know the months, days of the week, colors, and a smattering of other words and phrases (coffee, snow, book, hello, good-bye, I love you and I am hungry to name a few!). This is so exciting!!! I love to learn!!!

101 in 1001

This is my list of 101 things that I'd like to accomplish in 1001 days!! So that means I should have these things accomplished by Friday, August 30, 2013. Here's the list:

1. Join a gym

2. Plan my wedding

3. Spend a weekend camping

4. Start taking vitamins

5. Start giving blood again

6. Take a pole dancing class

7. Go to a concert

8. Read 101 books

9. Get married

10. Visit Europe

11. Take a photography class

12. Work with homeless or underprivileged children

13. Plant something

14. Start taking college courses again

15. See a Broadway play

16. Get at least 2 more stamps on my passport

17. Decorate a room in it's entirety

18. Keep the tv off for one week

19. Buy a nice watch

20. Go skiing

21. See an opera

22. Pay for the person in line behind me

23. Buy stock

24. Make a playlist of 101 favorite songs

25. Brush up on my French

26. Take tango lessons

27. Go ice skating

28. Go on a picnic

29. Go to a topless or nude beach

30. Rent a cabin for the weekend

31. Go on a cross country road trip

32. Clean my car

33. Throw a dinner party

34. Get a mani/pedi

35. Take more pictures

36. Take a trip to the beach

37. Take a tai chi class

38. Do a walk for a cause

39. Go snorkeling

40. Buy a new perfume

41. Get a massage

42. Stay in bed all day watching tv

43. Have hot chocolate topped with whipped cream

44. Keep up with this blog

45. Go to a bonfire

46. Watch Saturday morning cartoons

47. Bake a cake

48. Go on a double date

49. Go horseback riding

50. Take an art class

51. Help feed the homeless

52. Learn to play one song on the guitar or piano

53. Go to Six Flags

54. Hand write a letter to a loved one

55. Say hi to everyone I see for one day

56. Watch the sun rise

57. Watch the sun set

58. Play in the snow

59. Ride a ferris wheel

60. Dance in the rain

61. Turn my phone off for a day

62. Re-read 3 Shakespeare plays

63. Finish an entire crossword puzzle

64. Send someone flowers

65. Get something monogrammed

66. Take a CPR & First Aid class

67. Do karaoke

68. Take a girls only trip

69. Get new tires for my car

70. Try 5 new restaurants

71. Do yoga

72. Go on a walk in Piedmont Park

73. Kiss Sky at midnight on NYE

74. Update my wardrobe

75. Learn Italian or Spanish

76. Finish our wedding registry

77. Lie in the grass

78. Go to the GA Aquarium

79. Learn a waltz

80. Walk a mile everyday for a week

81. Go to a Braves game

82. Check into a hotel for the night just because

83. See a movie that makes me cry

84. Buy a beautiful dress

85. Go somewhere nice enough to wear that beautiful dress

86. Ask a doctor why I eat ice and how to stop

87. Leave a 50% tip after good service

88. Go out dancing with my girlfriends

89. Paint pottery

90. Take a walk through Atlanta

91. Print and organize my photos

92. Buy and use a planner

93. Make a blanket for Sadie

94. Create a budget

95. Learn how to coupon

96. Get our engagement pictures done

97. Visit Granny in NC

98. Try 10 new recipes

99. Go for a hike

100. Write 10 random thank you cards and send them

101. Make another list of 101 things after I finish this list