The Four Agreements

[Ombudsman]

This comes from a book I read recently. Thought I'd share it.

In the best selling book The Four Agreements don Miguel Ruiz gives four principles to practice in order to create love and happiness in your life. Adopting and committing to these agreements is simple. Actually living and keeping these Four Agreements can be one of the hardest things you will ever do. It can also be one of the most life changing things you will ever do.

As you practice living these four practices your life will dramatically change. In the beginning these new habits will be challenging and you will lapse countless times. With practice these agreements become integrated into your being and every area of your life and become easy habits to keep.

The Four Agreements are:

1. Be Impeccable with your Word: Speak with integrity. Say only what you mean. Avoid using the Word to speak against yourself or to gossip about others. Use the power of your Word in the direction of truth and love.

2. Don’t Take Anything Personally
Nothing others do is because of you. What others say and do is a projection of their own reality, their own dream. When you are immune to the opinions and actions of others, you won’t be the victim of needless suffering.

3. Don’t Make Assumptions
Find the courage to ask questions and to express what you really want. Communicate with others as clearly as you can to avoid misunderstandings, sadness and drama. With just this one agreement, you can completely transform your life.

4. Always Do Your Best
Your best is going to change from moment to moment; it will be different when you are healthy as opposed to sick. Under any circumstance, simply do your best, and you will avoid self-judgment, self-abuse, and regret.

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[Dryer Vent]

Nice.

Query: My neighbor calls and bitches about everything - like my dog ran through his yard that happens to be 9 acres, my horseshoe pit is too close to his property line, our camper was too close to his property line - by the 9 acres, mind you.

Does #3 give me the permission to tell him that I think he's a butthole that needs to get a life? I sure hope saw cause that's just what I've done several times.

[Ombudsman]

Well first you need to address the horse shoe issue. Nobody has played that since the 70's. Make a nice cornhole set instead then you can move it close to his property. When he complains hit him the head with a bean bag. Do that a few times and see if he has anymore complaints about you playing horseshoes.

[Dryer Vent]

Well first you need to address the horse shoe issue. Nobody has played that since the 70's. Make a nice cornhole set instead then you can move it close to his property. When he complains hit him the head with a bean bag. Do that a few times and see if he has anymore complaints about you playing horseshoes.

Obviously, you don't live in my neck of the woods. Everybody here plays horseshoes. Cornhole is for pussies. We have friends who constructed a "washers" court. I don't play washers, however. That's for pussies.

[Boatrocker]

. . . Cornhole is for pussies . . . .

Homie don't have nuthin to do with no "cornhole." The meaning I grew up with was much different, and in marked contrast to the quote above!