1. Love God
2. Love God’s people
3. Love the people God loves the way God loves them.
4. Listen to the Holy Spirit as you read the Bible
5. Learn to hear God speak. There is hope when He speaks
6. Learn to talk transparently to Him, not at Him.
7. Truth is your best friend.
8. Life is an adventure, explore it.
9. Neither victory nor failure is permanent.
10. All troubles have one thing in common: there is a Savior.
11. What you make of your name is your descendants’ priceless inheritance.
12. A firm handshake has no substitute.
13. Eye contact is the threshold of influence.
14. Pay attention to criticism.
15. Pay no attention to insults.
16, Learn to tell the difference.
17. Store complements in your prayer room.
18. Stand, walk, and sit erect.
19. Respect each person.
20. Be generous.
21. Find joy.
22. Live in peace.
23. Chace, truth passionately!
24. Forgive quickly and thoroughly, give and seek it freely.
25. Remember failures and victories, but lean into the challenges.
26. Take care of your body, you are its master.
27. Learn to wash and iron your own clothes.
28. Learn to sew on a button.
29. Learn to cook for yourself.
30. Develop the skill of cleaning a toilet.
31. Maintain confidence and be a person worthy of trust.
32. Listen as people talk to you.
33. Never turn your back on your family.
34. Encourage every person you meet.
35. Keep those who value what you value close to you.
36. Only trust those who are worthy of trust.
37. Celebrate success, no matter whose it is.
38. Develop the ability to think.
39. Think more, talk less.
40. Read, Read, Read.
41. Write, Write, Write.
42. Create constantly.
43. Pursue excellence, celebrate advancement.
44. Remove “errs” and “uhs” from your speaking vocabulary.
45. Grammar may not cause failure, but it could limit opportunity.
46. Etiquette may not cause failure, but it could limit opportunity.
47. Edit everything before you publish anything.
48. A trusted editor is better than a flattering friend.
49. Laugh a lot and share it.
50. Laugh with others, never at others!
51. Proper hygiene may not win friends, but when inadequate, you may lose a few.
52. You will never regret being overdressed, but you will feel exposed when underdressed.
53. When in doubt, use a breath mint.
54. You become what you think about.
55. You think about what you desire most.
56. Be merciless about what you allow to capture your imagination.
57. Enjoy Creation and be a good steward of it.
58. Clean up after yourself.
If you get it out, put it up
If you open it, close it
If you turn it on, turn it off
If you use it, clean it
59. Learn how to change a flat tire.
60. Learn how to drive a stick shift.
61 Learn how to swim.
62. When you fall, get up.
63. Only cry when it helps.
64. The single most important human on the face of the planet is your spouse.
65. Loving your children will sometimes sting like a hornet, but that wound will heal.
66. The most powerful moment of any day is the quiet one before God.
67. Because God never fails, you cannot fail. It is His name that is on the line, not yours.
68. God never fails to lead me, but I sometimes fail to follow.
69. Following God is an acquired skill.
70. Following yourself is to default to eternal obscurity.
71. Eat slowly, stop when your hunger is satisfied.
72. Learn when to stop talking.
73. Crude language never enhances the truth.
74. This is my list; use it freely, but develop your own.
75. Leave room at the bottom of your list for growth.
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Photo – Rutledge Falls near Tullahoma, Tennessee.
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