{"id":113,"date":"2020-03-28T19:37:01","date_gmt":"2020-03-28T19:37:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.billcraig.info\/?p=113"},"modified":"2020-03-28T23:38:49","modified_gmt":"2020-03-28T23:38:49","slug":"bills-life-and-living-directives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/billcraig.info\/?p=113","title":{"rendered":"Bill\u2019s Life and Living Directives"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Over the years I have recorded short directives that I try to follow on a daily basis. Many of the directives are ones that I have come up with, others have come from sources that are long forgotten. During the next two months I will be expanding on these to explain where they came from, what they mean and how they can be used.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As more come to mind over the coming years I\u2019ll keep adding to them. The directives include:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Be genuine<\/li><li>Have influence and bring impact<\/li><li>Do, live and be well<\/li><li>Value others and provide value to others<\/li><li>Communicate to collaborate<\/li><li>Be a friend, to have friends<\/li><li>Dream to inspire<\/li><li>Seek and build flourishing lives and communities<\/li><li>Explore and experience the world, be of the world, and be for the world<\/li><li>Do instead of say or watch<\/li><li>Listen, observe, and always learn<\/li><li>Relax to accomplish<\/li><li>Keep it short, simple and sweet<\/li><li>Be in the moment to maximize  the moment<\/li><li>Know the past, to understand the present and shape the future<\/li><li>Live on the edge \u2013 \u201cIf your not living on the edge your taking up too much space!\u201d<\/li><li>Analyze the problem as much as the solution<\/li><li>Negate (<em>definition: to&nbsp;nullify&nbsp;or&nbsp;cause&nbsp;to&nbsp;be&nbsp;ineffective<\/em>) negative emotions  \u2013 anger, jealousy, hate, envy and others<\/li><li>Make history everyday \u2013 Howard Zinn<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Originally posted on billcraig.info on August 25, 2013<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Over the years I have recorded short directives that I try to follow on a daily basis. Many of the directives are ones that I have come up with, others [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","book_review_cover_url":"","book_review_title":"","book_review_series":"","book_review_author":"","book_review_genre":"","book_review_isbn":"","book_review_publisher":"","book_review_release_date":"","book_review_format":"","book_review_pages":"","book_review_source":"","book_review_rating":"","book_review_summary":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/billcraig.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/billcraig.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/billcraig.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billcraig.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billcraig.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=113"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/billcraig.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":150,"href":"https:\/\/billcraig.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113\/revisions\/150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/billcraig.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billcraig.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billcraig.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}