{"id":1463,"date":"2010-07-19T17:08:36","date_gmt":"2010-07-19T17:08:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/?p=1463"},"modified":"2018-05-15T10:00:13","modified_gmt":"2018-05-15T17:00:13","slug":"the-four-agreements-a-book-for-getting-through-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/the-four-agreements-a-book-for-getting-through-life\/","title":{"rendered":"The Four Agreements &#8211; a book for getting through life&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have read The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz many times in the past ten years. I have listened to the recorded version even more.\u00a0\u00a0 The four agreements are simple:<\/p>\n<p>1. Be impeccible with your word.<\/p>\n<p>2. Don&#8217;t take anything personally.<\/p>\n<p>3. Don&#8217;t make assumptions.<\/p>\n<p>4. Always do your best.<\/p>\n<p>I have lived my life using these agreements since first reading the book. It has been hard. In fact, writing about them today gives me a good reminder that I have a situation in my life right now where the assumptions are rampant! I will take care of that!\u00a0 I also remind myself that doing my best is often based on my best in terms of where I am with bipolar disorder. On the really, really tough days, my best is quite different than on the more normal days. And on the hypomanic days- watch out! \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p>Julie<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/four-agreements-pic.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1464\" title=\"four agreements pic\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/four-agreements-pic.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"212\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/four-agreements-pic.jpg 240w, https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/four-agreements-pic-150x133.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/a>By Don Miguel Ruiz<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have read The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz many times in the past ten years. I have listened to the recorded version even more. The four agreements are simple:<\/p>\n<p>1. Be impeccible with your word.<\/p>\n<p>2. Don&#8217;t take anything personally.<\/p>\n<p>3. Don&#8217;t make assumptions.<\/p>\n<p>4. Always do your best.<\/p>\n<p>I have lived my life using these agreements since first reading the book. It has been hard. In fact, writing about them today gives me a good reminder that I have a situation in my life right now where the assumptions are rampant! I will take care of that! I also remind myself that doing my best is often based on my best in terms of where I am with bipolar disorder. On the really, really tough days, my best is quite different than on the more normal days. And on the hypomanic days- watch out! \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p>Julie<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/four-agreements-pic.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1464\" <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/the-four-agreements-a-book-for-getting-through-life\/\">[ Read More ]<\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1463"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1463"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1463\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11860,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1463\/revisions\/11860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}