Rules for being human by Cherie Carter-Scott

I was cleaning the garage [for relaxation!] the other day and I found this piece of paper with ten rules for being human. It does not say who the author was and so I Googled and found more about the origins of this set of "rules". These "rules" first appeared from the book "If Life is a Game, These are the Rules" by Cherie Carter-Scott; and it seems there's more than ten of these "rules". I compared my written copy to what I found on the net and changed bits and pieces below:

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

1. 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.

2. 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.

3. Each day in this school you will have the opportunity to learn lessons. You may not like the lessons or think of them irrelevant and stupid.

4. There are no mistakes, only lessons. Growth is a process of experimentation. The "failed" experiments are as much a part of the process as the experiemtns that ultimately "works".["Failures" are as much a part of the process as "success."]

5. A lesson is repeated until learned. A lesson will be presented to you in various forms until you learn it. When you have learned it, you can go on to the next lesson.

6. If you don't learn easy lessons, they get harder. External problems are a precise reflection of your internal state. When you clear inner obstructions, your outside world changes. Pain is how the universe gets your attention.

7. You will know you've learned a lesson when your actions change. Wisdom is practice. A little of something is better than a lot of nothing.

8. Learning lessons does not end. There is no part of life that does not contain its lessons. If you are alive, there are lessons to be learned.

9. "There" is no better than "here". When your "there" becomes a "here" you will simply obtain another "there" that will, again, looks better than "here."

10. Others are merely mirrors of you. You cannot love or hate something about another person unless it reflects something you love or hate in yourself.

11. Your life is up to you. Life provides the canvas; you do the painting. Take charge of your life -- or someone else will.

12. To say in another sense: What you make of your life is up to you. You have all the tools and resources you need. What you do with them is up to you. The choice is yours.

13. You always get what you want. Your subconscious rightfully determines what energies, experiences, and people you attract -- therefore, the only foolproof way to know what you want is to see what you have. There are no victims, only students.

14. There is no right or wrong, but there are consequences. Moralizing doesn't help. Judgments only hold the patterns in place. Just do your best.

15. Your answers lie inside you. Children need guidance from others; as we mature, we trust our hearts, where the Laws of Spirit are written. You know more than you have heard or read or been told. The answers to life's questions lie inside you; all you need to do is to look, listen, and trust.

16. You will forget all this.

17. But you are allowed to remember these anytime you wish, remember life is a continous lesson!