The Ten Universal Laws of the Warrior Code:
- Pay attention. Stay in the present. It’s the only place anything real is happening.
- Take responsibility. This is your life, take it back. Either you get to own it or you get to blame someone or something else for it. Choose.
- No kvetching (to complain persistently). No whining, no sniveling — it takes you out of the present and lets you abdicate responsibility.
- Don’t take any abuse. It’s very bad for one’s self-esteem to take any abuse. Stand up to your tyrants, both internal and external. The cost is too great not to.
- Do it anyway. Hard choices temper our strength and our integrity; they make the difference between a life of excellence and a life of mediocrity.
- Don’t quit. Look at what stops you, at where you give the effort up. That is the edge between becoming a victim or a warrior.
- Keep your agreements. A warrior is only as good as his or her word. The way we build self-trust and trust in others is by making and keeping agreements.
- Keep your sense of humor. Otherwise what’s the point? Humor helps us to stretch beyond our own limits and ourselves.
- Love one another. Otherwise where’s the meaning? It’s the way we remember we’re not alone in the universe.
- Honor your connection to the source. There is a force in the universe, greater than ourselves that creates us, provides for us, cares for us, guides us, and loves us. It speaks to us from within. Trust it.
From: “Awakening the Warrior Within” by Dawn Callan