You should read chapters 1-5 of The Four Agreements.

I will start off with the information you need form this book.

Four Agreements:

1) Be impeccable with your words. Say what you mean and mean what you say, at all times. Try to think about what you wish to say and how you wish to say it.

2) Do not take anything personal. Other people may lie but they do it because they fear they will look imperfect. This one was tough. There is a paragraph speaking about a “gun to your head” scenario, and regardless if the trigger is pulled, do not take it personal. I really struggle with the concept, then what could be personal? Apparently you should take nothing to heart. This is why the book is on the list. Because I never thought about it like that. I reminds me of another quote in another Mark Manson book. “ I will try to live my life such that in the hour of my death I would feel joy rather than fear.”

3) Do not make assumptions. To assume is to make an ASS of U and ME. We don’t know the full story of everyone’s life, therefore, show patience and don’t assume anything of anyone else. We don’t know or understand other’s battles.

4) Always do your best. Whether you are great or terrible, always do the best you can, especially when you are bad at it. You do the little things the same as the big things in life.

Outside the first five chapters, there is a lot of preachy God stuff. It that tickles you fancy, read that too. I did and felt the book hurts itself and its message because I do not believe you need to “feel the light”. It can come off as cult-like and I ended up skimming the last too chapters because the author was droning on about a subject matter, I have not interest in.

Overall a few solid lessons can be learned.