Be Up Around People You Love
Yo u r j o b f r o m n o w o n , a s a R u l e s P l a y e r, i s t o b e u p a r o u n d
people you love. No more moaning. No more complaining. No
more grumbling. These things will no more issue from your
lips. You are, from now on, the positive one, the perpetually
cheerful, always up one around whom good things revolve
and happen.
When asked how are you, instead of saying, “Can’t complain,
mustn’t grumble,” in the future you will say, “Fine, good, mar-
velous”—No matter how crummy you feel, no matter what
sort of a day you’ve had, no matter how low, down, or fed up
you are. And do you know, the interesting thing is that when
you do say “Marvelous,” even if you don’t feel it, you’ll find
something positive to say to follow it up with. Whereas if
you’d said “Been better,” then the follow-up thoughts would
be negative. Try it—honestly, it really works.
In the future, right from today, from this very second, you
have to become the one who is always happy, up, cheerful.
Why? Because someone has to, or everybody will want to end
it all. This life is hard and treacherous. Someone has to lift the
burden, lift the spirits, lift the gloom. So who’s it going to be?
Yo u , t h a t ’s w h o.
I know, I know. You’ll be sitting there reading this, thinking,
“Why me? Why lay this burden on me?” Because you can do
it, that’s why. But do it secretly (remember Rule 1), without
fuss or bother. Just a simple change of heart, change of direc-
tion. From now on you cannot be anything but up around
those you love. OK, moan to strangers. But loved ones get the
full treatment. Up, up, and away.