Get your next pet from the animal shelter.	Don’t allow the phone to interrupt important moments. It’s there for your convenience, not the callers.
Don’t burn bridges. You’ll be surprised how many times you have to cross the same river.	Remember that winners do what losers don’t want to do.
Don’t be fooled. It something sounds too good to be true, it probably is.	Never tell anyone they look tired or depressed.
Be modest. A lot was accomplished before you were born.	Be suspicious of all politicians.
Laugh a lot. A good sense of humour cures almost all of life’s ills.	Send your loved one flowers. Think of a reason later.
Never cut what can be untied.	Don’t take good health for granted.
Always have something beautiful in sight, even If It’s just a daisy in a glass.	Never give a loved one a gift that suggests they need improvement.
Got acquainted with a good lawyer, accountant and plumber	Feed a strangers expired parking meter.
Don’t scrimp in order to leave money to your children.	Cherish your children for what they are, not for what you’d like them to be.
Measure people by the size of their hearts, not the size of their bank accounts.	Learn to listen, opportunity sometimes knocks very softly.
Give people a second chance but not a third.	Smile a lot. It costs nothing and is beyond price.
Lie on your back and look at the stars.	Donate two pints of blood every year.
Be brave. Even if you’re not pretend to be. No one can tell the difference.	Install smoke detectors in your home.
Watch for big problems. They disguise big opportunities.	Never eat the last biscuit.
Read carefully anything that requires your signature. Remember the big print giveth and the small print taketh away.	When playing games with children. Let them win.
Be willing to lose a battle in order to win the war.	Live so that when your children think of fairness, caring and integrity, they think of you.

From Life’s Little Instruction Book by H Jackson Brown Jr.

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