When you were born, you didn't come with an owner's manual; these guidelines make life work better.

• You will receive a body. You may like it or hate it, but it's the only thing you are sure to keep for the rest of your life.
• You will learn lessons. You are enrolled in a full-time informal school called "Life on Planet Earth". Every person or incident is the Universal Teacher.
• There are no mistakes, only lessons. Growth is a process of experimentation. "Failures" are as much a part of the process as "success."
• A lesson is repeated until learned. It is presented to you in various forms until you learn it -- then you can go on to the next lesson.
• If you don't learn easy lessons, they get harder. External problems are a precise ...