What are the FIVE most important lessons you learned in 2010: some sharings

I recently asked my Facebook friends, as to what were the FIVE most important life lessons they learned in the last year. The sharings were very interesting and thoughts that we can all benefit from. The specific learning may have been someone else’s but these learnings can help us on our way as we move on to the new year and a new decade. And maybe, some of these may resonate with you as well.

Please do share your FIVE most important lessons from last year…

Philip Z.: Don’t force, have a short-term memory, and I forget the other three…

Amit R.:

• Have patience and trust; We’ll surely receive what we deserve.
• Anger is one of the biggest enemy.
• Accept people with their mistakes. Nobody is perfect.
• Have trust in God. Believe in God; He will save you even from the worst condi…tion.
• Receive when it is time to receive back the blessing. By receiving, we’re also helping others to remove burdan from them.

Garrimaa S.:

• Silence is good
• One can replace complaints with praise
• Everything has two aspects without which that “thing” won’t exist
• Balance in everything comes from moderation
• Death is inevitable

Ajender S:

• Sometimes giving up is better than screwing up.
• Love your self for a change
• Its good, that everyone in the world does not love you.
• great moments, make a great life.. focus on the moment.
• Don’t take your goals too seriously, they will change …anyway, as we move forward

Desh K.

• Take care of the one foot by one foot around you, the rest of the world will start falling into place.
• If you are diligent and honest; you needn’t fear the consequences
• Things will be good and things will be bad. Remain Happy… and enjoy all the moments for they only come once.
• To have any chance of help from anyone, just help everyone you can in whatever way you can – indiscriminately. You will be surprised by the Universe!
• Whether you want to meet your Guru or not, when you are ready, He will get you. And get you GOOD!

Vish K.: he most valuable learning for me in 2010 was the conviction that ‘What one works hardest to keep, is generally lost’ , courtesy of demonstations by Gerry Weinberg. It depressed the hell out of me.

Archana C.: To be “content” with life as it unfolds and to know that things will always change

Carol S.:

• Pay attention. All the time.
• Know when to hold ’em and when to fold ’em.
• Puppyhood is really nerve-wracking. But also incredibly enjoyabl…e. (Didn’t I learn that one before??)
• Trust in my connection with Source Energy – with God – and in the steady evolution of my soul.
• Be here now.

Somanjana C:
All I really needed to know I learnt in Kindergarten! And then she elaborated:

Robert Fulghum said in this fantastic book:

“Most of what I really need to know about how to live, and what to do, and how to be, I learned in kindergarten. Wisdom was not at the top the graduate school mountain, but there in the sand box at… nursery school.

These are the things I learned. Share everything. Play fair. Don’t hit people. Put things back where you found them. Clean up your own mess. Don’t take things that aren’t yours. Say you are sorry when you hurt somebody. Wash your hands before you eat. Flush. Warm cookies and cold milk are food for you. Live a balanced life. Learn some and think some and draw some and paint and sing and dance and play and work everyday.

Take a nap every afternoon. When you go out in the world, watch for traffic, hold hands, and stick together. Be aware of wonder. Remember the little seed in the plastic cup? The roots go down and the plant goes up and nobody really knows how or why. We are like that.

And then remember that book about Dick and Jane and the first word you learned, the biggest word of all: LOOK! Everything you need to know is there somewhere. The Golden Rule and love and basic sanitation, ecology, and politics and the sane living.

Think of what a better world it would be if we all, the whole world, had cookies and milk about 3 o’clock every afternoon and then lay down with our blankets for a nap. Or we had a basic policy in our nation and other nations to always put thing back where we found them and clean up our own messes. And it is still true, no matter how old you are, when you go out in the world, it is best to hold hands and stick together”.

Piyush M:

• Have Patience,
• Ignore skeptics and march head on with your big picture agenda,
• The critics are your friends helping improve you
• Don’t sweat the small stuff
• Service before Self

What do you think?