Find time

Lose yourself in a book

Actually taste your lunch

Call a friend

Seek adventures

Visit new places

Visit familiar places and look for what’s news

Step out onto the edge of your own fears

Ask for

What you want

Love

Trouble

Watch The Eight Irresistible Principles of Fun

I’ve staying with my friend Libby in Paris.  On the back of her door an intriguing assortment of postcards, posters and collections of wisdom.  I particularly liked these 14 “rules of being human” by Dan Miller – and tracked it down on the internet.  I particularly love the last two, which made me laugh out loud.

When you were born, you didn’t come with an owner’s manual. These guidelines help make life work better!

1. You will receive a body. You may like it or hate it, but make the best of it because it’s going to be with you for the rest of your life.
2. You will learn lessons. You are enrolled in a full time informal school called life on planet Earth.  Every person or incident is the Universal Teacher
3. There are no mistakes, only lessons.  Growth is a process of experimentation. ‘Failures’ are as much a part of the process as ‘Successes’
4. A lesson is repeated until it is learned.  It is presented to you in various forms until you learn it, then you go to the next lesson.
5. If you don’t learn easy lessons they get harder.  External problems are a precise reflection of your internal state; pain is how your subconscious gets your attention.  First it whispers, then it Yells.  When you clear inner obstructions, your outside world changes.
6. You will know you have learned a lesson when …
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Bonjour mes amis!

I happen to be in Paris for a brief visit today and tomorrow – and the timing is perfect.

Because today we release The Eight Irresistible Principles of Fun in French:

les huit principes irrésistibles du divertissment

The movie that’s been seen in English by nearly a million people around the world…

is now available in Canada’s other official language!

You can see it here

Apprécier!

Michael

PS – please do pass this along to any francophone you know who’s looking for a little more fun, inspiration and action in their lives. There’s a link called “Send it to a friend” on the website. Click on this link and you can send the movie to 3 people at a time.