How I Create My Own Life Rules

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By David Wygant September 11, 2012 268 Shares

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I hate rules.

Always have.

I remember when I was a kid my parents would send me to summer camp. It was called Brant Lake Camp in New York; it is a beautiful camp on Brant Lake.

I hated it.

I enjoyed certain things about it. I liked swimming. I liked playing football. I love tennis. I love baseball.

But I didn’t like playing soccer. I never liked soccer. I didn’t like playing basketball. These are certain things that I just did not like to do, but the problem is, in camp you had no choice.

They made you do things. They made you go play basketball. They made you go play soccer.

But I never did.

I would sit down and excuse myself. I would tell them that I didn’t enjoy it. I’d come up with excuses.

I was such a belligerent kid. I never liked to do my homework. I was the worst student in the entire world—a straight C student and damn proud of it.

I never could play by the rules—ever.

I remember when I got out of college. I got a few jobs, got fired from them all and each boss always told me the same exact thing:

“David, you have an attitude problem and you don’t play by the rules.”

I always took that as a compliment.

Life is too short. I never believed in playing by the rules. Now granted, I am not going to drive 100 miles an hour in a 50 mile an hour zone. I am not going to steal. I am not going to cheat. I am not going to lie.

But, I am not going to play by “the rules” of life, because you set your own rules; you determine how you’re going to live.

You determine who you’re going to hang with, you determine who your friends are going to be. You determine the job, you determine everything in life, and you set your own life rules.

I like creating my rules every day. I like living by my rules every day. It’s freeing. It’s empowering, and it makes me feel alive.

I’m going to ask you all a question, now, and I want all of you to really think about it before answering:

Who’s rules do you live your life by?

Be 100% honest here.

Who’s rules do you live your life by and for those of you that want to go even deeper today:

How many of you have rules that you would love to live your life by but for some reason or another, you stop yourself?

What are your excuses for not living your life by your own rules?

I want to hear from all of you today.

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Nick

Tuesday, September 11th, 2012

Well up until recently I'll admit that I had been following a lot of people's rules. And I'm slowly trying to get away from that because I think you really have a point here. BTW, Brant Lake isn't too far from where I live.

Boghos

Tuesday, September 11th, 2012

yes I do live by the rules because i live in middle east and if i see a woman on the other side of the road i feel its not normal to cross the road and approach her cause i have never seen a man doing it even during the day but however during the night life i feel its much safer to approach cause girls go out to have fun and meet guys and i have heard women screaming for men to approach her but however i do attract girls during the day i see there body language changing fixing the hair even changing the faces axprations but i dont talk because of excuses shes not my type or her noise is bid or shes younger but however im working on this cause its the women fantecy that they will meet their man when he walks infront of them

Bob

Tuesday, September 11th, 2012

I lived "by the rules" in the early days of my life, because I had no choice. I had to work, make money, save, and survive, while working my ass off, to attain the final goals of independence I dreamed of attaining. This makes me now much more appreciative of what I have, and how hard I worked to achieve it. I would argue that I appreciate and value my lifes accomplishments and the rewards I accomplished much more than anyone who took the easy way out and just ignored the rules, didn't do what they felt was beneath them, or simply didn't want to do. David, you are very lucky to have made it as easily as you have. Yes, I know, you work hard, bla bla bla., but you work hard at doing what you love! That is the difference that many people do not have available to them, and never will. They simply were not dealt those cards. I know I am extremely successful, and truly appreciate my good fortune, but realize and sympathize with those who never will have the opportunities I had to become successful. I really don't think you understand this sometimes, and are not sympathetic to the norm of responsibilities and difficulties of what most people have to go through in ordinary lives. You always speak of losing so many jobs, not doing what you have to, or are told, which I believe spoils a person, they never learn to be humble, self sacrificing, appreciative for a goal they achieve too easily. It often shows in your writings. There is an underlying arrogance, and idea of superiority in some of your blogs. Some people have no choice, due to family obligations, and people who rely on them, or mental and physical challenges. They never have a choice to ignore the rules, and get fired, quit jobs, be footloose and fancy free, as you have been able to achieve through a lot of luck, and some special talents you possess with the opposite sex and have exploited.