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How do I make my own life rules?

5 steps to making your own rules Get connected. Sit and meditate. ... Shed what's not serving you. Make a list. ... Make space. Without space, there is no room for inspiration, creativity, or anything new. ... Allow creativity. Find something you like that is creative and fun. ... Make new rules.

Do you put oxygen absorbers in rice?
Do you put oxygen absorbers in rice?

Use food-safe oxygen absorbers [Bj5] available from food storage supply stores to preserve rice quality, and protect from insect infestation.

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How many hours are survivalists?
How many hours are survivalists?

While its cute, pixel art aesthetic won't be for everyone and its short length is an issue, there's plenty to love. Cards on the table: you can...

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Sometimes the rules aren't so obvious. Sometimes the rules are just assumptions about the way life has to be. Expectations. Status quo. Rule breakers and trail blazers aren't limited to the heroes we read about in history books. Earth shakers are all around us. We all have heroes in our daily lives--mothers, fathers, siblings, children, co-workers, and friends--who've improved our lives by going against the stream. My good friend Tao Porchon-Lynch is 94 years young and blazes trails all over the globe leading yoga classes and reminding people that they have the power within to accomplish anything. Occasionally she brings me along for the ride and I am energized and inspired by her presence. My husband Mike Taylor took a leap of faith into the direction of his interests and talents and adopted a career switch from technology start ups to Strala. (Working beside me daily takes some major rule breaking skills!) Maybe it's a mother who believed in your artistic dream before you did. A friend who encouraged you to leave the boyfriend who was perfect on paper, but not for you. A sister who started practicing yoga and inspired you to take better care of your health. Our heroes are important to us because they believed in their vision for how life could be when no one else did. They took giant leaps of faith, went against the grain, broke the rules, and left the world a better place. Sometimes "following the rules" means holding ourselves back. It's easy to fall into habits and stay in our comfort zone. I don't buy the "fear of failure" routine. We all can imagine our own failure. What's more difficult to imagine is our success. It's uncharted, unscripted, and completely unbound.

What happens if we take a chance on ourselves, our dream, our life? What happens if we consider how we're living, break the rules that aren't serving our highest purpose, and write our own rules?

I encourage us to ask, Who made the rules that we live by? Which rules are we willing to stand by and which are we brave enough to break?

Where is the safest place to be if a nuclear bomb goes off?
Where is the safest place to be if a nuclear bomb goes off?

If warned of an imminent attack, immediately get inside the nearest building and move away from windows. This will help provide protection from the...

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How heavy is a sniper bullet?
How heavy is a sniper bullet?

Match-grade ammunition 7.62 × 51mm M118 Match Grade: A 173-grain round.

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What is Diamond rules?

In the "diamond rule", you treat others as they wish YOU to treat them. The "you" in this case is the individual "you". Who you are and what you bring to the conversation. In contrast, the platinum rule would have us all treat the person we're interacting with the same way that everyone else does.

The "golden rule", as we were all taught as children, is to treat others as we wish to be treated. Then we got older and the "platinum rule" was introduced, to treat others as they wish to be treated. In business and in life, I still find this lacking. I try to practice what I call the "diamond rule". In the "diamond rule", you treat others as they wish YOU to treat them. The "you" in this case is the individual "you". Who you are and what you bring to the conversation. In contrast, the platinum rule would have us all treat the person we're interacting with the same way that everyone else does. Who then will give them an alternate perspective? Who will ask the questions that no one else did? Who will build them up after a failure or remind them to stay humble after a success? In my opinion, being authentic and credible is about being the person the other person expects us to be: ourselves. Paraphrasing Drucker's classic, "The Effective Executive", I am suggesting that we ask ourselves, "What is it about me that this person needs that only I can provide?" and "Why did they come to me?". To put this into practice, if you're the cheerleader type, be that. People need your optimism. If you tend to be critical or the expert in finding the flaws, then embrace it, that's why they came to you. Of course there is a right way and wrong way to deliver the negative opinion - time and place and a simple turn of phrase can do wonders for how the news is received. But in the end, be who you are and others will seek you out for what only you can provide.

Why are some people very independent?
Why are some people very independent?

Hyper-independence can be related to a past trauma. For example, you might be overly independent because you learned that you could not trust...

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Why does my stomach look pregnant?
Why does my stomach look pregnant?

You could have a condition called Diastasis Recti Abdominus, or DRA. DRA is caused by an increase in abdominal pressure and occurs when the rectus...

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What happens to your money in the bank if there is a depression?
What happens to your money in the bank if there is a depression?

Deposits Are Protected by the FDIC. This is overwhelmingly the main form of protection that consumers have in case their banks fail due to an...

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Where was the worst earthquake?
Where was the worst earthquake?

Chile The 1960 Valdivia earthquake and tsunami (Spanish: Terremoto de Valdivia) or the Great Chilean earthquake (Gran terremoto de Chile) on 22 May...

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