EP031: 9 Cardinal Rules For Life

The idea behind coming up with the 8 cardinal rules for life came from an info graphic I found and posted on my Facebook fan page wall. Till this day, the info graphic had over 109 shares and 54 likes likes which blew my mind!

In coming up with today’s podcast, I thought that I can expand on the quote and talk about it through my own lens with a few compelling examples and reasons why these rules do make sense and should be applied.

However, the original info graphic was only 7 cardinal rules but the last two rules are my own because I learned something very important while attending the Tony Robbins seminar a few weeks ago and it is worth talking about.

I hope you like the “9 Cardinal Rules For Life” podcast. I would love your feedback below!

1. Make peace with your past so it won’t disturb your present.

• I can resonate with this one myself — I often talk about the past in my podcasts but it’s time to let all of that go.
• Emotional baggage is real — fill your closet full of old cloth and you won’t have room for new cloth. Our hearts are our closets and the emotions are the cloth we put into them.
• For a lot of us, our hearts are full of negative emotions and baggage that we carry everywhere. This is why we’re not as happy or as successful as we want to become.
• Emotional blocks can be found in all areas of our lives – relationships, careers, family and everything in between.
• Don’t cling to negative feelings — anger is nothing more than an outward sign of hurt, fear, guilt or frustration.
• Making peace with your past is never easy or simple but it is possible but only if you’re intentional about removing baggage from your heart that no longer belongs there.

2. What other people think of you is none of your business.

• How people perceive you reveals more about them than it does about you.
• Everyone grows up through a different lens and perspective of how life is and how it should be.
• People will judge you, talk about you and project their stuff on you. It is what it is.
• Seeking validation is one way for others to judge you because a confident, self-assured person doesn’t need validation.
• Sometimes we invite others to judge us based on how we act around them because there is an old saying “tell me who you spend your time with and I’ll tell you who you’re”
• While most of the time, like I said before — everyone lives life through their own unique lens.
• Regardless, “This too shall pass.”

3. Time heals almost everything. Give it time.

• There is a great quote by Regina Brett — regina says “If we all threw our problems in a pile and saw everyone else’s, we’d grab ours back.” — This is why I believe that it’s very important to feel grateful —  you have problems because you’re living life. I feel sorry for the man or woman who doesn’t have problems.
• We need to make peace with the present so that it won’t screw up the past.
• It takes time to heal
• It takes time to recover
• It takes time to reconnect and recharge
• Give yourself time and don’t beat yourself up — its all a process.
• I’ve been through it many times and every struggle I had in life was for a reason.
• What’s that old saying? “f it doesn’t kills you, it will make you stronger?”

4. No one is in charge of your happiness. Except you.

• This one is huge — it really is. Trust me!
• No person or material possession will ever make us happy. Your partner in life is not responsible for your happiness or for your boredom.
• I believe that success in all walks of all comes from the inside out — if this statement is true, then how come we always blame others for our downfalls and unhappiness?
• I guess it is a lot easier to