7 Cardinal Rules You Should Consider Living By

Not me, nor anyone can tell you how to live. We can only advice ourselves on it. The point is to keep questioning and keep sucking the righteous information’s as much as you can during your whole lifetime.

Some may say it’s a code of living we need to have. Some may say there are crucial rules we need to follow. No one can burden us with rules to live, but again, we can take an advice, and I would present the rules you should consider living by.

It all starts in the brain. The person full with knowledge can never be defeated, for he always comes back stronger than before. So try to implement every next rule in your brain.

1. Don’t rush

It’s both terrifying and great that life is passing through so fast. Successful people (so far I’ve concluded) use time as an everyday fear, and they seem to “attack” it in every 24 hours of every day in the year. What would you do today if you could die tomorrow?

We fell out of the rails, right? It may seem that we chat the contrary, rushing things, but things never really seem to be done by rushing. The point is to start doing without waving the white flag on the first obstacle. You cannot do anything in a day, and yet, doing it frequently for an extensive period of time gets everything done!

Don’t rush, but don’t stop either. You know when things are not meant for you, but when you truly know they do, don’t stop. Great things come from marathons, not sprints.

2. Don’t stop thinking

The brain is the most magnificent organ. People explore it for thousands of years, and they haven’t explored a tiny bit of its usage. All we know is that the brain may extend to 60.000 thoughts per day!

From those 60.000 thoughts, it’s also claimed that 95% of them are from the previous day, and that’s where things go wrong.

“Don’t think too much” is both, true and false. Thinking too much in a focused and bright idea will give the best creative ideas. By default, thinking without focus burst our brain to the worst thoughts possible.

So, bottom line would be to always think properly. Don’t pause the questioning technique, for every proper question resolved by correct answer will give the right path for you.

3. Have a second “religion” for you

Before you think the third rule is a blasphemy, let me extent my explanation.

Having a religion and a god is right that belongs to every human. The second witch comes is the religion after first belief.

Living by a unique principles would be the best fit for the second religion. Many people believe that they operate good deeds and that they are rightful? What’s really rightful?

That definition started fading hundred years ago, especially thirty years ago when the world had vast technological evolution. Now every person has its own ‘rightful’ that can be shared through the social media.

You have to find that rightful for you, and made it as a pillar to your life.

4. Talk to yourself

Having the inner talk more often is really a rule we have to obey.

We already mentioned that we shouldn’t stop thinking.

Have you sensed that most of the things circle around one question, and I am sure you all repeat the question many times in the month, if not in a week: Am I a good person? I have sensed that many times I made the virtuous deeds by asking myself that question before doing anything.

Talk to yourself and answer your questions all the time; What if I do this? What’s going to be? Can I connect this two things to make this better? Can I somehow solve this?

I have a list of questions that will completely free your mind!

5. Renew your perception of things

One thing can be seen in many different ways. To me, being a writer and blogging was the last thing to do. Two years ago, if you’ve put a gun in my mouth and told me to blog or die, I would tell you to shoot!

We have a magnificent part in the brain called the reticular cortex. It’s a little pen-like section of the brain that deletes most of what you hear, see and feel.

In this very moment there are thousand things to focus on, but if you decide to focus on them all at once, you would go completely insane.

As you adjust your focus from one thing to another, you delete shifts as well. The reticular cortex determines what to delete, but you have to decide what you don’t want to delete.

The idea is to play with your perception, and update your reticular cortex frequently. Visualize and constitute vast and tiny goals all the time. As soon as you execute them, update it again.

You may want to be a millionaire, but until you get there you will have to play and update your perception and the way you see things more often.

6. Be happy, but don’t force it

Happiness is the main goal to every human being. Everything we do is to be happy.

As I experience life, happiness is a rare thing. In most cases where happiness is frequent, is by people who execute tasks in a way to their vision, working the things they love. But how many people really do it?

Most just work to get paid, doing things they never do from the heart.

As I said, frequent! Even if you do and work the job you love (and would even do voluntarily) it has million obstacles waiting to be solved by you and your team. You cannot tell that you love problems and obstacles, because no one really does. By being determined, you push yourself hard to not forfeit from the thing you love.

For example, I love running marathons, but pushing myself hard is making me want to hate it too! I love the feeling of being better than yesterday, but I know being better takes determination and persistence, which is a brave thing, but not happy. Mike Tyson hated every moment of training, but he said, suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion!

So, know that happiness prevails less and adversity is more common. That’s why you remember the happiest moments for the rest of your life. Do more of the things you love, and happiness will come to you.

7. Learn to control your “crazy”

“Wow, you are crazy girl!” You can almost hear it every day, but we do not discuss you-threw-a-water-at-your-husbands-face type of crazy. We talk about really bizarre things here. And, to be honest, we never reveal these things to anyone.

For example, many successful people controlled the crazy and used it to be creative.

Thomas Edison refused to sleep when he was on a roll. He would sneak in a power nap, he usually slept as little as possible — only three hours a night. His ideas were that sleep was “a heritage from our cave days” and a waste of time. This is not accepted by bigger piece of the population, right?

Maya Angelou kept a hotel room to block everything out and write her best works.
Her secret: a tiny hotel room, where she’d go from 7 a.m. to 2 p.m. with a dictionary, a Bible, a deck of cards, and a bottle of sherry to get her creative juices going.

Think you’re addicted to coffee? Chances are your caffeine problem doesn’t even come close to that of French novelist Honore de Balzac. This historical writer consumed as many as 50 cups of coffee each day, barely sleeping at all while composing his magnum opus, La Comedie Humaine.”I’ll stay as long as it’s going well,” she said in an interview. “It’s lonely, and it’s marvelous.”

So if you think your “craziness” stops your creativity, think again!