LIFE AND ITS LAWS: TEN OF THE BEST

Life laws are rules of the game of life. No one is going to ask if you think these laws are fair, or if you think they should exist. Like the law of gravity, they simply are, you don't get a vote. You can ignore them and stumble along, wondering why you never seem to succeed, or you can learn them, adapt to them, mold your choices and behaviour to them and live effectively. These life laws consist of:

1. YOU EITHER GET IT, OR YOU DON'T: Your strategy: Become one of those who get it. Break the code of human nature, and find out what makes people tick. Learn why you and other people do what they do, and don't do what they don't.

2. YOU CREATE YOUR OWN EXPERIENCE: Your strategy: Acknowledge and accept accountability for your life. Understand your role in creating the results that are your life. Learn how to choose better so you have better.

3. PEOPLE DO WHAT WORKS: Your strategy: Identify the pay-offs that drives your behaviour and that of others. Control the pay-offs to control your life.

4. YOU CAN'T CHANGE WHAT YOU DON'T ACKNOWLEDGE: Your strategy: Get real with yourself, about life and everybody in it. Be truthful about what isn't working in your life. Stop making excuses and start making results.

5. LIFE REWARDS ACTION: Your strategy: Make careful decisions and then pull the rigger. Learn that the world couldn't care less about thoughts without actions.

6. THIS IS NO REALITY; ONLY PERCEPTION: Your strategy: Identity the filter through which you view the world. Acknowledge your history without being controlled by it.

7. LIFE IS MANAGED; IT IS NOT CURED: Your strategy: Learn to take charge of your life and hold on. This is a long ride, and you are the driver every single day.

8. WE TEACH PEOPLE HOW TO TREAT US: Your strategy: Own, rather than complain about how people treat you. Learn to renegotiate your relationship to have what you want.

9. THERE'S POWER IN FORGIVENESS: Your strategy: Open your eyes to what anger and resentment are doing to you. Take your power back from those who have hurt you.

10. YOU HAVE TO NAME IT TO CLAIM IT: Your strategy: Get clear about what you want, and take your turn.