I came across a stack of sticky notes sticking to each other and containing a few terse commandments I had written for myself maybe two years ago. I was still trying to fit into the research group I had joined few months back and was introspecting quite a bit to figure out how I was behaving and contemplating about how I should behave instead. Here are the commandments from those times:
1. Be active.
2. Be available.
3. Be approachable.
4. Listen/ Be attentive/ Be a good listener.
5. Voice your opinion/ preference. Be vocal.
6. Smile.
7. Say "yes".
8. Be patient.
9. Be good at what you do.
10. Be prompt.
11. Be an eloquent speaker.
12. Be a compassionate friend.
13. Be positive.
14. Forgive and forget.
15. Be sincere to your work.
16. Be more efficient.
17. Focus on solving problems, not proving yourself.
18. Be nice to people.
Ways to simplify life were also listed: Wake up early, cook and workout daily, work 9-to-6.
Also listed were these four terms - self-awareness, imagination, conscience, independent will. I can't recall what they were for. The last thing on there was a maxim - money comes and goes.
I would really like to believe that some of those commandments have been followed since then, but some could still use some working up on.
To good times, that are disguised as bad times! They forge the human out of us!
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