Melinda's Golden Rules

Melinda Gates 10 Golden Rules for Life: 

1. Trust yourself. This is the most important thing. Everybody has an inner truth and if your learn how to listen to it, you'll be happier in everything you do.

2. Make time for quiet self reflection. You need to connect with nature and quiet truths to live a meaningful, balanced life. 

3. Cultivate great friends and keep them close. Tell them what you're learning and what you're excited about, and they will do the same for you.

4. Be a lifelong learner. Learn new topics, take up new hobbies. You will be amazed at what you don't know and what the world holds in store.

5. Broaden your worldviews. 

6. Connect deeply with others. Our humanity is the one thing we all have in common. 

7. Get a good night's sleep! Your mind and body need it.

8. Laugh aloud as often as possible. Laugh with others, Laugh at yourself. However you laugh, do it with abandon. 

9. Teach your children your values - don't just teach them how to tie their shoes and do multiplication tables. Teach them how to think about the important things in life. 

10. Read books with your friends and family and talk about them. You learn and grow more when you do it within a community. 

(text via porter magazine, image via one)