A list ...

... of what i have learnt. Your list will be different. Write one, put it somewhere and read it again in a year or more and see if it's still true. A few years ago when my oldest daughter Grace was at university some 222 miles away in Bath (according to Google maps) she became very ill and spent a week in hospital. I recieved the message at 10:30 at night and i don't drive so couldn't do much at that time of night. I prayed that night that i would feel she was save and being taken care of so i could sleep because being a nurse i know when a family member is sick it takes lots of energy that people dont always have enough because they can't sleep. I also phoned the local church near where she was at that time and i know people went to see her, people who were strangers but they went anyway and reassured me that though she was sick she was in good spirit. 

While i was staying at my daughter's students lodgings i wrote a list of things that i had learnt, things i thought were of value. I don't know if she still has the list and i'm sure this new list will be different in parts if not in the whole but these are the things i feel are important today; 

1. Sleep before midnight - often
2. Sleep 8 hours a night - most of the time
3. Rise early - you will get more done
4. Get ready for the day - dress to your shoes, so if you need to you can just walk out the door
5. Eat breakfast - fruit, yoghurt, cereal, cereal bar, bread toasted or not but eat something
6. Drink water - do not buy bottled water, the water from the taps in the UK is more then adequate
7. Take lunch with you - its healthier and it's cheaper
8. Girls should smell nice - a bath or a shower every day is adequate anything else, sprays, lotions, potions and perfume is extra
9. Wash you face properly - buy a bar of oil based soap from Bodyshop, e.g coconut, olive, shea and use it every day. Use an exfoliatant once a week. Add a simple moisturiser
10. Get your hair cut and styled regularly
11. Dress appropriately - no one looks good in the wrong size or the wrong style of clothing
12. Buy and wear nice underwear - make sure it fits correctly and so what if no one else sees it, you at least know what's under your clothes
13. Take some daily exercise
14. Get your weight under control and keep it there - not everyone is supposed to be super skinny and besides it's not any healthier then being over weight, unless it's your natural size
15. Don't eat meat a couple of times a week - give your body a rest
16. Eat fruit and vegetables
17. Be honest - don't cheat you will only get found out and it may cost you more then you think, don't lie, the only person you are really lying to is yourself and don't steal, if it's not yours and you don't have permission don't take it, don't use it
18. Live with heart and hands wide open - be generous with what you have and share it whenever possible and appropriate, likewise, be grateful for the blessings that you have
19. Do the four, go to church, read your scriptures, pray, and pay your tithing
20. A word on prayer, pray openly, pray in your heart, walk with prayers under your feet, pray for a blessing over your what you eat and drink daily, be thankful in your heart at all times
21. Learn to meditate and practice daily
22. Be clean - in mind, body and soul
23. Strive to have the Holy Ghost with you all the time
24. Save - yes money - no matter how little, a little goes a long way when necessary
25. Always have enough money to get home
26. Stay out of unnecessary debt - a car is not essential unless you need it for work and not to just get to work
27. Don't gamble, not even the lottery
28. Work for what you need
29. Have a food storage - to last you at least two weeks
30. Only buy cheap if it's worth it 
31. Don't own what you don't need - someone else maybe able to use it, so share it
32. Re-cylcle - when you can, don't use plastic bottles and bags and cups
33. Read good books that have nothing to do with what you are studying
34. Laugh often
35. Be friendly
36. Say I LOVE YOU