With Apolgies to a Bevy of Coveys

Dr. Stephen Covey’s Seven Cardinal Rules of Life

#1 Make Peace with your past so it does not spoil your present. Your past does not define your future – you actions and beliefs do.


#2 What others think of you is none of your business. It is how much you value yourself and how important you think you are.


#3 Time heals almost everything give time, time. Pain will be less hurting. Scars make us who we are; they explain our life and who we are, they challenge us and force us to be strong.


#4 No one is the reason for your own happiness, except you yourself. Waste no time and effort searching for peace and contentment and joy in the world outside.


#5 Don’t compare your life with others’ you have no idea what their journey is about. If we all threw our problems in a pile and saw everyone else’s, we would grab ours back as fast as we could.

#6 Stop thinking too much it’s all right not to know all the answers. Sometimes there is no answer; not going to be any answer, never has been an answer. That’s the answer! Just accept it, move on. Next!

#7 Sometimes talk-therapy can cause you and me to over think everything. Sometimes you just have to stop thinking about some things and move on.