Encouragement Plus Coaching
"Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness."
Chinese Proverb
Don H. Morris
Memphis, Tennessee
U.S.A.
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FIVE RULES
OF THE WORLD
By Anne Lamott*
- You must not have anything wrong with you or anything different.
- If you do have something wrong with you, you must get over it as soon as possible.
- If you can't get over it, you must pretend you have!
- If you can't pretend you have, you shouldn't show up. You should stay at home, because it's hard for everyone else to have you around!
- If you are going to insist on showing up, you should at least have the decency to feel ashamed!
So the most subversive, revolutionary
thing you could do is to show up for life
and not be ashamed!
*Lamott, Anne. (1993). Operating instructions: A journal of my son's first year (p. 100). New York: Fawcett Columbine.
Anne reported that she first heard these rules from a Jesuit priest, but no specific citation was provided.
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