Fourteen Rules for Being Human
from If Life is a Game, These are the Rules by Cherie Carter-Scott

1. You will receive a body.

You may like it or hate it, but it will be yours the entire period this time around.


2. You will learn lessons.

You are enrolled in a full-time informal school called Life. Each day in this school you will have the opportunity to learn lessons. You may like the lessons or think them irrelevant and stupid.


3. There are no mistakes, only lessons.

Growth is a process of trial and error: experimentation. The "failed" experiments are as much a part of the process as the experiments that ultimately "work."


4. A lesson is repeated until learned.

A lesson will be presented to you in various forms until you have learned it. When you have learned it, you can go on to the next lesson.


5. Learning lessons does not end.

There is no part of life that does not contain its lessons. If you are alive, there are lessons to be learned.


6. "There" is no better than "here."

When your "there" has become a "here," you will simply obtain another "there" that will again look better than "here."


7. Others are merely mirrors of you.

You cannot love or hate something about another person unless it reflects something you love or hate about yourself.


8. What you make of your life is up to you.

You have all the tools and resources you need. What you do with them is up to you. The choice is yours.


9. Life is exactly what you think it is.

You create a life that matches your beliefs and expectations.


10. You always get what you want.

Your subconscious rightfully determines what energies, experiences, and people you attract – therefore, the only fool proof way to know what you want is to see what you have. There are no victims, only students.


11. There is no right or wrong.

There are consequences. Moralizing doesn’t help. Judgments only hold the patterns in place. Just do your best.


12. Your answers lie inside you.

The answers to life's questions lie inside you. All you need to do is look, listen, and trust.


13. You will forget all this.



14. You can remember it whenever you want.