The Rules of Life to Minimize Stress and Strife



The Rules of Life to Minimize Stress and Strife
Gary Shulman, MS. Ed.
July 16, 2023

Right off the bat let me declaratively state
No expert am I about guaranteeing a happy fate
For mistakes lord knows I have made in life
The resulting effect being stress and strife
But let me expostulate and freely fantasize
Some thoughts if I may, to help spirits to rise
And perhaps to avoid some foibles ahead
So with kindness I will share and gently tread
If you live your life not genuinely being you
Your soul will suffer and true happiness eschew
If you choose to deride and focus on strife
The reflection in the mirror will cut sharp as a knife
If your passions are ignored and swept aside
Your psyche will explode until your spirit has died
I know external pressures can be virulent and strong
I know sometimes it’s difficult to ignore the shouting throng
But the bottomline if I might offer, is simple, clear and true
Life was meant to be fully lived by the fiercely genuine YOU!

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Some simple thoughts about living a fulfilling life.

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Written on July 16, 2023

Submitted by shulman.gary on July 16, 2023

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Scheme ABX CCAADDBBEEAAFFGGEE
Closest metre Iambic hexameter
Characters 978
Words 183
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 3, 18

Gary Shulman, MS. Ed.

Gary Shulman, MS. Ed. has spent a lifetime supporting vulnerable families and children. He began his career working with children with and without disabilities in an inclusive Head Start program in Brooklyn NY. He then transitioned to become the Special Needs and Early Childhood Coordinator for the Brooklyn Children's Museum for 10 years. His passion for advocacy grew as he worked more and more with parents of children with disabilities. For over 24 years he passionately advocated for the needs of these parents as the Social Services and Training Director for Resources for Children with Special Needs, Inc. in NYC. The last 8 years of his working life, Mr. Shulman served as a private Special Needs Consultant conducting hundreds of training sessions throughout NYC and beyond to help parents and professionals find and access the services and systems required to facilitate maximizing the potential of their children with disabilities. Now Mr. Shulman is happily retired in Palm Springs CA, but still volunteers his time any way he can to provide information to those in need of his expertise. Today, Gary enjoys sharing his poetry that he passionately writes with the goal of leaving this world a better place one word at a time. more…

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