1. You will receive a body. You may like it or hate it,
but it will be yours for the entire period this time around.

2. You will learn lessons. You are enrolled in a full-time,
informal school called Life. Each day in this school you will
have the opportunity to learn lessons. You may like the
lessons or think them irrelevant and stupid.

3. There are no mistakes, only lessons. Growth is a process of
trial and error, experimentation. The "failed" experiments are as
much a part of the process as the experiment that ultimately "works."

4. A lesson is repeated until it is learned. A lesson will be
presented to you in various forms until you have
learned it. Then you can go on to the next lesson.

5. Learning lessons does not end. There is no part of
life that does not contain its lessons. If you are alive,
there are lessons to be learned.

6. "There" is no better than "here." When your "there"
has become a "here," you will simply obtain another
"there" that again looks better than "here."

7. Others are merely mirrors of you. You cannot love or
hate something about another person unless it reflects
to you something you love or hate about yourself.

8. What you make of your life is up to you. You have all
the tools and resources you need; what you do with
them is up to you. The choice is yours.

9. The answers lie inside you. The answers to life's questions
lie inside you. All you need to do is look, listen, and trust .

The Author of this piece is Dr. Shari Carter-Scott. She wrote the
rules in 1974 and they were used in her course "Consultants Training"