I don't know if I have one. That's bad, huh?

I have a new one.

My old one was "Perseverance Furthers" from the I Ching.

The new one I have borrowed from the woman that just completed an open water swim from Cuba to Florida. She said what kept her going was holding in her mind: "Find a way". I need her words, not just as a guideline/code, but as a specific instruction to use almost like a mantra; which is what she said she did during the swim. We all need something to use when life seems overwhelming.

My secondary life guideline has always been: Ahimsa, which translates as "do no harm".

I'll go with Diana Nyad's, as a former distance swimmer, she has been a long time idol.

"Find a way" everyday
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I like yours. The only Code I live by is a tool that pops up when a flag pops up that says, Stop. What do I do? 1 Don't feel sorry for yourself for too long. 2 You are not the center of the universe. 3. Don't forget to laugh.

"One foot in front of the other", I've been saying to myself lately.

I've also used, "One step at a time, one day at a time, one hour at a time, one minute at a time, one second at a time."

It's funny, in my hospital chaplain's training, in order to put my own trauma experience aside to deal with an ER patient and their trauma, we were taught to tell ourselves "it's not about you."

I know that looks at first like it is backwards to your code, arfie, but I don't think it actually contradicts it. We were taught to learn the tricky task of recalling our own personal trauma to then draw from it to have empathy for the person in front of us.

And yet we were taught not to tell them our story out loud, but listen to them telling us theirs, paralleling it in our own minds with our own story. Major case of chewing gum and walking at the same time, emotionally.

Most hospital chaplains, by the way, do have trauma in their own personal background and self select to work in major medical trauma centers because of wanting to help from their own experience. That was certainly the case with the ones who trained me on the job in my internships and hospital residency.

It works, if you can do it. Patients can tell when they're talking to someone on the hospital staff who's been there or not, even when that staffer doesn't say so explicitly. It just shows.

Good code. Hard, but good.

"It's not about me" is very compatible with the KIP Code. Everybody gets their own personal personal. When someone honors me with sharing his/her personals, the KIP Code keeps it about him/her. I can care about his/her pain but we each have to walk that lonesome valley by ourselves.

That's my theory and I'm sticking to it... For now...

Mine used to be, "Work hard; Play hard." I still work hard, but my playing hard used to take a toll on my well-being. Now, I guess I just try to rest hard instead.

Still trying to think of a good mantra... Maybe- focus and breathe? Lately, I seem to be spinning a lot. Back to school with 15 million irons in the fire. I need to get them all done yesterday. I get overwhelmed and it's difficult to ever get one thing crossed off the list. Instead, I have all of them half done!

Yep, focus and breathe seems to be the one for now.

Exactamundo, arf.

"Don't plan. Be led."

be right here right now.

and, breathe :)

oh! breathe in good/ breathe out bad

Live before you die

How can I make this day good?

One day at a time.......

Do the next right thing

My dad used to say to me
'learn one new thing each day to make it count" for along time that worked for me, reading everything to meet the something new.

Now I have a lot of useless info floating in my brain , Jeopardy can call anytime.

Yea, I know that feeling of having a headfull of knowledge that isn't good for anything but awaiting a call from a game show host.

Here on a Monday morning of continuing the drive to bring my graphics studio to productivity I find myself with the mantraic refrain of, "Do more with what you already have."

Be grateful