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What is your guiding 'principle'?

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cowonthecommon · 16/02/2024 13:17

I've often heard that having a guiding principle brings purpose and satisfaction in life. Something - a firmly held value - you live by and stick to. Something to sort of 'organise' everything in your life around, which guides you.

Feel in a bit of a slump.

Just asking, what is your 'guiding principle', if you have one? Maybe I just don't know what mine is.

Does it have to be lofty and ethics-based or can you be guided by something more simple, like the need to be organised and have things in order? If anything, that would be mine but is that a little without substance and meaningless?

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MamaAlwaysknowsbest · 16/02/2024 19:14

Biblical principles, commands also

UngratefulOldCabbage · 16/02/2024 19:16

WhatsInANameDearBethany · 16/02/2024 13:26

'Don't be a dick'

Beat me to it!!

UngratefulOldCabbage · 16/02/2024 19:18

Also ' everything will be okay in the end. If it's not okay then it's not the end'

Pocketfullofdogtreats · 16/02/2024 19:20

Gormless · 16/02/2024 14:02

To thine own self be true

This is what I came here to say.

Gormless · 16/02/2024 19:22

‘This too shall pass’. It’s helpful in bad times and humbling in good times.

VivienneDelacroix · 16/02/2024 19:46

We create our own happiness.

MinervatheGreat · 16/02/2024 19:53

ComtesseDeSpair · 16/02/2024 13:44

That I’m not obliged to do something profound with my life. I don’t have to “live my best life”; “make each day count”; “unlock my greatness”; “reach for the stars”. I’m just another mammal shuffling along the mortal coil with no sort of obligation to fulfil wonders. It’s absolutely fine to just be entirely mediocre and to live a mediocre life, finding satisfaction in being comfortable and in the small things, and generally trying not to leave people worse than when you found them - the vast majority of people ever to walk the planet will live this way, and it isn’t some sort of moral failing not to achieve greatness or purpose.

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This has articulated for me what many of us could do with remembering.
Thank you.

Cluelessbutwilling · 16/02/2024 20:07

Gormless · 16/02/2024 19:22

‘This too shall pass’. It’s helpful in bad times and humbling in good times.

Ha ha @Gormless that was mine also at the start of the thread

Gormless · 16/02/2024 20:09

Cluelessbutwilling · 16/02/2024 20:07

Ha ha @Gormless that was mine also at the start of the thread

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Sorry! I didn’t see that! It’s a good’un.

noodlezoodle · 16/02/2024 21:17

Assume good intentions until proved otherwise. Often when I think someone is trying to be a dick that's not the case. Of course if they ARE trying to be a dick, all bets are off

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