5 Simple Rules To Live By

As we were cleaning out a room to set up a new office space and a new home for my desk my partner came across a well worn little slip of paper. On this paper were “5 Simple Rules To Be Happy”. It was given to her many years ago by one of her friends when she was going through a rough time and it stayed on her desk at work for a long time, and with her for a much longer time. Theses rules kind of hit home when I read through them.

1. Free you heart from hatred.
2. Free your mind from worries.
3. Live Simply
4. Give More
5. Expect Less

Pretty simple when you look at them, and pretty effective when you put them into practice. The first one really resonates with me because it is so easy for many of us to hate, but we fail to recognize that our hearts are much like the gas tank on a motorcycle (or any other vehicle for that matter).

Okay, okay, I can hear the eyes rolling back as many of my readers try and figure out just how I am going to equate a motorcycle's gas tank and a heart. It is pretty simple really!

Your gas tank has a limited capacity. Now you can put anything you want into that gas tank from high octane fuel, to regular fuel (I shudder at the thought), to sugar. As you fly down the open road you get that sense of thrill and joy, using up some of that fuel. The wider you open the throttle, the faster you fly, the greater the sense of thrill and joy. All the time, while you are burning off that fuel you are making room for more fuel to go into that tank. If you fill that tank with crap fuel or anything else, you are not going to get anywhere fast as your system plugs up and possibly shuts down altogether which means there is no room to put in new fuel.

Our hearts are much the same. If we fill them with love it will take us flying through life and the more love we give, the more we receive. If you fill your heart with hatred it will stop you dead in your tracks. It will sit and rot and fester and leave no room for anything good to enter your heart.

So clean out the crud and fill your heart with some high octane fuel. You will be amazed at the results!!