1.2.09.  New Year's Resolutions are Rules.


New Year's Resolutions. What are they -- really? They're rules.


A "New Year's Resolution" is a rule you've decided you'll follow this year. You've seen many other terms for rules, for example:


advice, agendas, agreements, aims, algorithms, best practices, blueprints, cautions, checklists, checks, codes, commandments (the Bible), commitments, cookbooks, core principles, core values, covenants, customs, decisions, desires, determinations, directions, do's and don'ts, duties, errands, ethics, etiquette, expectations, focus, formulas, foundations, goals, guarantees, guidelines, guiding principles, habits, honey do's, how-to's, ideas, innovations, inspirations, instructions, itineraries, jobs, kaizens, keys, laws, lessons, lists, mandates, manners, mantras, means, methods, mission statement points, morals, needs, new year's resolutions, objectives, obligations, operating principles, options, orders, outlines, pillars, plans, pointers, points, policies, practices, preferences, priorities, procedures, process improvements, processes, promises, recipes, recommendations, regulations, reminders, requirements, resolutions, road maps, routines, rules, schedules, secrets, solutions, standards, steps, strategies, suggestions, tactics, targets, tasks, techniques, terms, thoughts, tips, toolkits, tools, traditions, tricks, tricks of the trade, try this, unspoken rules, unwritten rules, values, warnings, ways, wisdom . . . .


If it tells you what to do, it's a rule. If you tell yourself a new thing to do this year, in fancy terms, it's a New Year's Resolution. In plain terms, it's a rule. You can use the Good Rules Way, and the goodrulesblog, to achieve it.


© 2009 Rick Favaloro, J.D., The Good Rules Consultant™  rick.rulesatwork@mac.com

When you use

good

New Year's Resolution

rules,

you meet

your

New Year's Resolution

goals.


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The

New Year's Resolution Rules Theorem


1.1.09.  Welcome to the goodrulesblog!


Hi. I'm Rick Favaloro, the Good Rules Consultant™. Welcome to my blog.


The goodrulesblog explores the Good Rules Way™: the Good Rules Theorem™ and how you can use it to meet any goal.


The Good Rules Theorem is a simple, powerful, reliable truth. It says: "When you use good rules, you meet your goals". It's a "theorem" because, just like the theorem "2 + 3 = 5", there's a mathematical proof for it. It's true always, everywhere, for everyone, for everything. You can use it to meet any goal because it works for any goal: business, personal, individual, group. For example: (1) when you use good management rules, you meet your management goals; (2) when you use good weight loss rules, you meet your weight loss goals; (3) when you use good company profit rules, you meet your company profit goals. The Good Rules Way is how you use good rules to achieve your goals. The goodrulesblog explores the Good Rules Way.


Welcome to the Good Rules Way to meet your goals. Welcome to my blog.


© 2009 Rick Favaloro, J.D., The Good Rules Consultant™  rick.rulesatwork@mac.com



Rick Favaloro, J.D.

The Good Rules Consultant™


1.3.09.  In the Good Rules Way, what are "rules"?


The Good Rules Way™ shows you how to use good rules to achieve your goals. The Good Rules Theorem™ shows that when you use good rules, you always meet your goals. But what are "good rules"? What's a "rule"?


Basically, a "rule" is something that instructs something to do something. Rules abound. They've been around forever. They'll be around forever. They're everywhere. They appear in many forms. When you're reading or listening, a rule may appear as verb-first sentence. "Go." is a rule. It's a one-word verb-first sentence that instructs you to do something. "Stop." "Wait." "Hurry." "Focus." "Eat." and "Think!" are other one-word rules you may have heard, read, written, or said. Ditto for their two-word relatives: "Stop that." "Wait up." "Hurry up." "Focus, please." "Eat lots." and "Think, dude!" Whenever words tell you to do something, they're rules.


Rules also abound in non-word forms. Traffic lights instruct you: "stop", "go", "use caution". Road markings instruct you: "don't pass", "turn left", "turn right or go straight". Traffic sirens instruct you: "pull over", "get out of my way". Rules can be physical instructions: gravity "come here", inertia "hold your course". Rules even appear as emotions and feelings: "drink something", "sratch your leg", "go to sleep", "wake up!".


In the Good Rules Way, if they tell you what to do, they're rules, and when you use good ones, you always meet your goals.


© 2009 Rick Favaloro, J.D., The Good Rules Consultant™  rick.rulesatwork@mac.com

A rule is:

something

that instructs

something

to do

something.


Rules can appear as:

words

lights

markings

sounds

forces

feelings


1.4.09.  In the Good Rules Way, what are "good rules"?


In the Good Rules Way™, if something tells you what to do, it's a rule. According to the Good Rules Theorem™, when you use "good rules", you meet your goals. But what's a "good rule"?


Basically, a "good rule" is a rule that "solves your goal equation". Consider this example: You have 2 apples and your goal is to have 5 apples. A goal equation takes the form:

    what you have  +  good rules  =  your goal

In the example, your goal equation is:

    have 2 apples  +  good rules  =  have 5 apples

If you use the rule "add 3 apples", you'll meet your goal "have 5 apples". The rule "add 3 apples" solves your goal equation, so "add 3 apples" is a good rule.


Good rules solve much more than simple arithmetic goals. Good rules solve any goals in arithemetic. Good rules solve any goals in mathematics, physics, chemistry, biology, and any other science. Good rules solve any goals in anything beyond science: art, music, dance, sports, politics, economics, finance, education, business, sales, management, motivation, medicine, weight loss. Good rules solve any goals in anything. Name your goal. Good rules solve it.


That's the vast, profound, and breathtaking power of good rules: they meet any goal.


© 2009 Rick Favaloro, J.D., The Good Rules Consultant™  rick.rulesatwork@mac.com

A good rule is:

a rule

that

solves your goal equation.


Good rules are

breathtakingly powerful.


Good rules

will meet

any goal.


1.5.09.  What we know, with absolute certainty, about goals and rules.


The Good Rules Way™ radiates from the Good Rules Theorem™: "When you use good rules, you meet your goals." As with other theorems, it's been mathematically proven. We know, with absolute certainty, that it's true. We can use the rules of logic to prove further theorems. We can state the original theorem, and further theorems, in different ways, to know many things.


Consider the original arithmetic theorem:  2 + 3 = 5.

It also means, with equal certainty:  3 + 2 = 55 - 2 = 3,  and  5 - 3 = 2.

It also means:  two plus three equals fivefive minus three makes two,  and other things.


Consider anew the original Good Rules Theorem:

    When you use good rules, you meet your goals.

It also means, with equal certainty:

    When you meet your goals, you use good rules.

    When you don't use good rules, you don't meet your goals.

    When you don't meet your goals, you don't use good rules.

It also means: If you didn't use good rules, you didn't meet your goals, and other things.


Begin with the Good Rules Theorem and use the rules of logic. You will know, with absolute certainty, many things, and some surprising things, about goals and rules.


© 2009 Rick Favaloro, J.D., The Good Rules Consultant™  rick.rulesatwork@mac.com

We know,

with absolute certainty,

that:


When you use

good rules,

you meet

your goals.


When you don't use

good rules,

you don't meet

your goals.


1.6.09.  In the Good Rules Way, what does "use" good rules mean?


In the Good Rules Way™, for rules in ordinary language, "use" good rules means: "enact" good rules, "instruct" good rules, "ignite" good rules, and "achieve" good rules.


Consider a business example. You make your goal: "design, manufacture, and sell ten widgets". "Enact" might mean: write, verbalize, or imagine "company rules" to design, manufacture, and sell ten widgets. "Instruct" might mean: read, hear, or recall the rules. "Ignite" might mean: read, hear, touch, smell, taste, think, or feel things that motivate you to achieve the rules. "Achieve" means: design, manufacture, and sell ten widgets. When you enact, instruct, ignite, and achieve good widget design, manufacture, and sales rules, you meet your widget design, manufacture, and sales goals -- every time.


Consider a personal example. You make your goal: "develop power-walking fitness". "Enact" might mean: write on a stickie on your computer the rule "go for a power-walk each afternoon". "Instruct" might mean: read your stickie rule "go for a power-walk each afternoon". "Ignite" might mean: remember that "go for a power-walk each afternoon" will make you thinner, happier, calmer, and power-walking fitter. "Achieve" might mean: you "go for a power-walk each afternoon". When you enact, instruct, ignite, and achieve good power-walking fitness rules, you meet your power-walking fitness goals -- every time.


© 2009 Rick Favaloro, J.D., The Good Rules Consultant™  rick.rulesatwork@mac.com

When

you

use good rules

---------------------------

( enact good rules

instruct good rules

ignite good rules

achieve good rules )

----------------------------

you

meet

your goals

-- every time.


1.7.09.  The Good Rules Way: a closer look: mathematics.


The Good Rules Way™ was conceived, designed, and developed to be the best way for anyone to meet any goal: any business goal, personal goal, group goal, individual goal. The Good Rules Way was inspired by the most brilliant and successful system of pure and applied thinking ever developed: mathematics.


Mathematics' main alternatives are intuition and common sense. But they produce many obviously true -- and later proven false -- assertions. Consider: "the earth is flat", "the sun rises in the east", "the planets circle the earth". Mathematics proved that each of these is false.


The brilliance and success of mathematics arises from its obsession to reject everything except what the most rigorous formal proofs produce. The products, called "theorems", are 100% reliable: always, everywhere, for everyone, for everything. Regardless of common sense or intuition, in mathematics, if it's proven, it's a theorem, and it's in. If not, it's not a theorem, and it's out. Common sense says that the expression 0.9999... will never quite equal 1. But  1 = 0.9999...  is a theorem. It's certainly true. Intuition would deny that -3 x -3 = positive 9, and -3 x -3 x -3 = minus 27, and -3 x -3 x -3 x -3 = positive 81. But it's a theorem. It's certainly true.


Mathematics is the most brilliant and successful system of pure and applied thinking ever developed. Forty years ago, mathematical thinking landed people on the moon. Today, it delivers satellite tv, cell phones, instant streaming video from Amazon rain forests -- and the Good Rules Theorem: "when you use good rules, you meet your goals". From this absolutely certain truth radiates the entire Good Rules Way: pure and applied mathematics to meet goals.


© 2009 Rick Favaloro, J.D., The Good Rules Consultant™  rick.rulesatwork@mac.com

Mathematics is

the most brilliant and

the most successful

system of

pure thinking

and applied thinking

ever developed.


The

Good Rules Theorem

is

mathematics.

From it

radiates

the Good Rules Way.

In

the Good Rules Way,

"you"

means

you,

whoever you are,

whatever you are.


The Good Rules Way

is

infinitely applicable

and

infinitey comprehensive.


1.8.09.  In the Good Rules Way, what does "you" mean?


In the Good Rules Way™, the Good Rules Theorem™ states: "when you use good rules, you meet your goals". "You" means you, whoever you are, and whatever you are -- whether you're Andy or Becky, male or female, the boss or the intern, young or old, big or small, a President or a prisoner, thin or chubby, confident or terrified, rich or poor, an individual or teammates, sad or happy, outdoorsy or cosmopolitan, two chessplayers or the U.S. Navy, pleased or angry, careful or careless, light-hearted or grumpy -- or both light-hearted and grumpy!


In a way, you means you even if you're not you! That's because other certainly true Good Rules Theorem variations state: "when they use good rules, they meet their goals", and "when I use good rules, I meet my goals". In fact, there are infinite certainly true variations on the Good Rules Theorem: "when firemen use good rules, they meet their goals", "when bank robbers use good rules, they meet their goals", "when your pet lizard Ed uses good rules, he meets his goals" and "when a crusty old boot uses good rules, it meets its goals" -- even if it has zero goals!


In the Good Rules Way, when any person or group uses good rules, that person or group meets its goals. The Good Rules Way is infinitely applicable and infinitely comprehensive.


© 2009 Rick Favaloro, J.D., The Good Rules Consultant™  rick.rulesatwork@mac.com

In

the Good Rules Way,

a rule

that you choose

to do

is

a goal.


1.9.09.  In the Good Rules Way, what are "goals"?


In the Good Rules Way™, a rule that you choose to do is a "goal". The instant you choose -- decide, opt, select -- to do -- achieve, accomplish, perform -- you make a goal.


In ordinary language, a goal can appear exactly as a rule can appear: as a verb-first sentence. For example, "Go." "Stop." "Wait." "Hurry." "Focus." "Eat." and "Think, dude!" are rules. When you choose to do one, it's a rule and a goal.


In the Good Rules Way, in ordinary language, a rule that you choose to do is a goal.


© 2009 Rick Favaloro, J.D., The Good Rules Consultant™  rick.rulesatwork@mac.com

In

the Good Rules Way,

you can choose,

or unchoose,

any goals,

anytime.


In

the Good Rules Way,

"your goals"

means

any goals you choose

-- any goals.


1.10.09.  In the Good Rules Way, what are "your goals"?


In the Good Rules Way™, a rule that you choose to do is a "goal". You name it: it's your goal. You pick 'em: they're your goals. "Your goals" means any goals you choose: any goals


You can make personal goals, business goals, individual goals, or group goals. They can be ambitious, "live an extremely happy life", modest "survive today", general "run a good meeting", or specific "make 25 sales calls today". They can be immediate, long term, smart, dumb, unique, reasonable, unreasonable, quantifiable, or qualitative. You can make any goals your goals.


This is a major Good Rules Way strength, and for you it can be an inspiring, liberating, uplifting, empowering treat: your goal can be ANY goal; your goals can be ANY goals. Instantly. Whatever goals you make, just as quickly and easily, you can change them. You can tweak, adjust, specify, generalize, detail, combine, quantify, qualify, expand, reorganize, reprioritize, reconceive, rewrite, overhaul, or otherwise change, any of your goals, anytime. You can add or subtract, or choose or unchoose, any goals -- anytime, anywhere, anyway, for any reason.


In the Good Rules Way, "your goals" means any goals you choose -- any goals.


© 2009 Rick Favaloro, J.D., The Good Rules Consultant™  rick.rulesatwork@mac.com

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