THE 10 BASIC PRINCIPLES OF LEARNING THE LESSONS OF LIFE

THE 10 BASIC PRINCIPLES OF LEARNING THE LESSONS OF LIFE

1. You are God’s handiwork. You were made with a definite purpose. Not by chance not by probability. Your faculty is intricately designed and this makes you unique from other creatures. Being a rational being it is your innate duty to know the essence of your existence.

2. You will learn lessons. You are endowed with the capacity to learn –the gift to comprehend. The moment you were born you’re already enrolled in a full-time informal school called “University of Life”. Each day in this school you will have the opportunity to learn lessons. Some you will find relevant, others irrelevant. Filtering is a necessity you must not miss.

3. You can learn lessons of life from your mistakes. Experience is your best teacher. You will grow by going thru trials and errors or experimentations. The ‘failed’ experiments in your life are as much a part of the process of the experiment itself that ultimately “works.”

4. Learning is a matter of repetition. A lesson is repeated until learned. It is presented to you in various forms until you have learned it. Lessons learned are knowledge applied. Putting into practice what you know spells the difference. When you have learned a lesson, you can then go on the next and so on and so forth.

5. Learning lessons of life is a lifelong process. As long as you live you will continue to learn lessons. There is no part of your life that does not contain lessons. Learning only stops when your heart stops to beat.

6. Live each day as if it is your last. You can never be the same in different dispensations of time and never be in different places at the same time. What you were then is different from what you are now and what you’ll be tomorrow. Each day, do your best for tomorrow might no longer come.

7. You are like others. But your life is your life it belongs to no one else. If you won’t treasure it expect no one to do it for you. If you’ll break it no one can fix it but yourself. On the Final Day you are to face the Judge of All and settle your account with Him. By then you’ll be judged based on how you lived your own life. Not by how you lived with others or acted like them.

8. You are equipped to plan for your life. But He’s the only one who can fulfill your plan. You have all the tools and resources you need. Use them! Explore! But not lavishly. Always keep in mind that your make is not according to your own blueprint but according to what He planned.

9. There are three perennial questions about life: question of origin (where are you from?),question of existence (why are you here?) and question of destiny (where are you going?) . The quest for the answers to these questions is man’s toughest assignment in the “University of Life.” This is the ultimate lesson of life that must be learned by all men.

10. You will forget all that you learned. Hence, you’ve got no choice but to
share what you learned. “Light others’ candle” and you’ll not be forgotten.

Villamor S. Quebral

Olog 07/30/08 01:25pm