Three lessons for my next life, Revisited

One of my favorite things about writing is the reaction I get from people.  I’m not talking about the ‘wow I love what you wrote’ comments or the ‘you’re a really good writer’ ones (though I don’t mind those).  No, the reaction I enjoy most is ‘that blog you wrote really got me thinking.’  A while ago I wrote- Three Lessons for My Next Life– and it provided me with a ton thought-provoking feedback.  Obviously, while people may agree with my three lessons a lot of people had ideas of their own.

With that in mind, I decided to make a list of the different lessons readers shared with me that they would take with them to their next life:

• Give yourself permission to be who you truly are
• Relationships over possessions/money
• Appreciate the best in others
• Always be honest
• Listen more than you talk
• There are exceptions to everything
• Have faith more than hope
• Love as much as you allow yourself to (both yourself and others)
• Tell the people you love that you love them
• Don’t care what other people think about you
• Be kind to yourself (self-love)
• Keep your head down and work
• Start earlier on the dreams you thought were impossible (don’t postpone doing what you love just because you don’t feel capable right now)
• Champion experiences
• Develop compassion
• Don’t take it all(mostly yourself) too seriously
• Practice noticing details at an early age. Details about nature, about relationships, about cycles, about science, about yourself.
• Enjoy youth while you’re am young. That limber body and high energy does not last forever
• Learn to be a jack of all trades, except the trade of being a jackass.
• Things you don’t remember matter more than the things you do, so appreciate everything as it happens

If there’s a lesson you’d like to share feel free to comment below.

Stay Gold.