1.  DON'T PANIC ! ! ! ! !
2.  Don't worry.
3.  Calm down.
4.  Never question Christopher.
5.  Manage your time.
6.  Every evening, so far as possible, when you have finished your work, go for a walk.
7.  Ask the intercession of St Alphonsus Liguori for the right employment of time.
8.  Relax.
9.  Look out of the window.
10.  Ask for help if you need it.
11.  Don't rush anything, ever.  It is a waste of time.
12.  "DO MANFULLY AND BE OF GOOD HEART.  FEAR NOT, NOR BE YE DISMAYED AT THEIR SIGHT: FOR THE LORD THY GOD HE HIMSELF IS THY LEADER, AND WILL NOT LEAVE THEE NOR FORSAKE THEE." - Deuteronomy, 31, 6.
13.  Take time in all the tasks you carry out.
14.  When you feel wretched, and wish you were dead, or dying, or want to run away to a far distant land where no one will know you, first, pray; secondly, read rule number 12; and thirdly, talk to a good friend.
15.  Cheer up!
16.  Remember that your stresses are really of short duration.
17.  Be charitable to everybody.
18.  "Oh, memories that bless - and burn!
            "Oh, barren gain - and bitter loss!
     "I kiss each bead, and strive at last to learn
            "To kiss the cross,
                    "Sweetheart,
            "To kiss the cross."
(Robert Cameron Rogers, "The Rosary.")
19.  Remember that you are in the same boat as many other people, and that you are not rocking it.
20.  Take sufficient food, drink, and sleep, bearing in mind that you live at the top of a hill, which you walk up and down twice a day usually.
21.  Read over these rules from time to time.
22.  Call to mind Dr Johnson's modification of Burton's advice.  "If you are idle, be not solitary; if you are solitary, be not idle."
23.  "Time spent in prayer is never wasted." - Fénélon
24.  Time spent in acts of charity is never wasted either.
25.  Think of all the graces and blessings the Lord has bestowed upon you, and how unworthy you are of them.
26.  "This too shall pass."
27.  "Do it NOW!"
28.  When you rise, bear in mind that this may be your last day here; and when you go to bed, bear in mind that you may not live until the morning.  [A Kempis et al.]
29.  "An idle man is dead all his life long."
30.  "We ought to hear Mass [every day] if we habe time and opportunity, for to hear Mass is by far the most profitable of all devotions."  [Penny Catechism, and cf. Rules of Catholic Life number 4.]
31.  Never despair.
32.  Pray five decades of the rosary every day.
33.  Read in the Gospels, or the Lives of the Saints, or some other good spiritual book, for fifteen minutes every day.  [Rules of Catholic Life number 7.]
34.  Pray the Angelus or the Regina Caeli in the morning, at noon, and in the evening, every day.  [Cf. Rules of Catholic Life number 8.]
35.  Go to Confession at least once a month, as far as possible, and as soon as you can if you fall into mortal sin.
36.  Do not exhaust yourself.
37.  Sing!
38.  Smile!
39.  When in doubt, say a Hail Mary.  ["We're not Crazy, We're Just Catholic" Facebook group, I believe.]
40.  Every morning when you get up, say three Hail Marys, adding, "O my Mother, preserve me from mortal sin this day;" and every evening when you go to bed, say three Hail Marys, adding, "O my Mother, preserve me from mortal sin this night." (The advice of St Alphonsus Liguori.)
41.  Be in the open air as much as possible without fatigue, and without neglect of other duties.  (Paraphrased from Sidney Smith.)
42.  A man who claims he does not cry is a liar, not a man.
43.  "Pray without ceasing."  (I Thess. 5, 17.)
44.  Never do anything that you cannot offer to God.  (St John Vianney.)
45.  When you are in sickness, sorrow, pain, or humiliation, say, "Lord, Thy Will be done; I take this for my sins.  May I suffer patiently with Jesus and Mary;" and thank God for the cross he has sent you.  (Cf. Penny Catechism and Rules of Catholic Life number 12.)
46.  Do no evil to anyone.
47.  "We are to hate sin, so that we are resolved never to commit one wilful sin, for the love or fear of anything whatsoever."  (Penny Catechism.)
48.  If you are tempted to blasphemy, say, "Cursed be my sins."  (St Alphonsus Liguori.)
49.  "Read only the best books." (Fr Paul Ward.)
50.  Think of the things that give you cause to enjoy and be grateful for being alive.
51.  Thank God for creating you in particular, for otherwise you would not exist; and, likewise, for all of the rest of His creation.
52.  Laugh!
53.  Do not complain about anything - even on the inside.  (Fr John Hardon, S. J.)
54.  Do everything with a desire to please God.  (Cf. Rules of Catholic Life number 6.)
55.  "When you find yourself tempted to sin, make the Sign of the Cross on your heart, and call on God as earnestly as you can, saying 'Lord, save me, or I perish;' and invoking also the holy names of Jesus and Mary.  Then, in order to forget the temptation, give all your attention to the work you are about, or occupy it with holy thoughts, such as the Passion of Jesus, the Sorrows of Mary, or death and eternity."  (Rules of Catholic Life number 10; cf. Penny Catechism.)
56.  Do not babble when you pray the Rosary, or any prayer for that matter.  One devout Hail Mary is worth more than a hundred and fifty said hurriedly and without attention.  (Cf. Rules of Catholic Life number 19, and other sources.)
57.  Think positively.
58.  Keep your temper at all times, even when all the devils seem to have been loosed from hell, and however much you are provoked.
59.  Do not let indecent images enter your mind.
60.  Saints are not sad!
61.  "Strive to enter by the narrow gate: for many, I say to you, shall seek to enter and not be able."  (St Luke, 13, 24.)
62.  Listen to soothing music to assist with rule number 8.
63.  "Take all that shall be brought upon thee: and in thy sorrow endure, and in thy humiliation keep patience.  For gold and silver are tried in fire, but acceptable men in the furnace of humiliation."  (Ecclesiasticus, 2, 4-5.)
64.  Do not drink excessive amounts of alcohol.  "Wine was created from the beginning to make men joyful, and not to make them drunk."  (Ecclesiasticus, 31, 25.)
65.  If you have time and it does not interfere with your other dutires, pray the Little Office of Our Lady every day.  If you do not have time to pray the Little Office entire, then pray some of it - the Office of Compline, for instance.
66.  Be neither too lax nor too scrupulous.
67.  Think logically and encourage others to make use of this practice.  (Partly Fr Paul Ward.)
68.  You can do a lot in ten minutes.  [(Mr D*****g.)]
69.  Do some music practice every day, when this is possible.
70.  Look upon that which is good, true, and beautiful.  [(Aristotle, I think.)]
71.  Live life to the full.
72.  "Learn that the flame of the Everlasting Love
"Doth burn ere it transform."  (Ven. John Henry Card. Newman.)
73.  "God's Will be done!" (The Peter Noster , and also St Francis de Sales, and many, nay, all the Saints.)
74.  "Whatsoever He shall say to you, do ye."  (St John, 2, 5.)
75.  Be efficient and organized.
76.  Follow the example of men who are better than you.
77.  Keep control of the situation, even "when all about you are losing [their heads] and blaming it on you."  (Kipling et al.)
78.  You are not useless; you are not a worthless mass of flesh; you are a creature of God and were made to know, love, and serve Him in this world, and to be happy with Him for ever in the next.  (Baltimore and Penny Catechisms.)
79.  If you don't know what to do, take steps to rectify that situation.
80.  "Grief is a species of idleness." (Dr Johnson.)
81.  Do not talk too much.  "Really, you should never speak without thinking." (Chesterton.)------"Really, that is a counsel of perfection."------(Chesterton did not reply.)
82.  "I have learned much from disease which life could never have taught me anywhere else." (Goethe.)
83.  "This is the day which the Lord has made: let us rejoice and be glad therein."  (Ps. 117, 24.)
84.  "Unless the Lord build the house, they labour in vain that build it.  Unless the Lord keep the city, he watcheth in vain that keepeth it."  (Ps. 126, 1.)
85.  Do not waste any time.
86.  Do not stay up until twelve, one, two o'clock unless you are in the company of a friend or friends [or have some other good reason].
87.  "Occupy your minds with good thoughts, or the enemy will fill them with bad ones.  Unoccupied, they cannot be."  (St Thomas More.)
88.  "That man is truly humble who converts humiliation into humility."  (St Bernard.)
89.  "If you have too much to do, with God's help you will find time to do it all."  (St Peter Canisius.)
90.  "Fly from bad companions as from the bite of a poisonous snake.  If you keep good companions, I can assure you that you will one day rejoice with the blessed in Heaven; whereas if you keep with those who are bad, you will become bad yourself, and you will be in danger of losing your soul."  (St John Bosco.)
91.  "Our own inclinations are far more dangerous thatn any external enemies."  (St Ambrose.)
92.  "It is impossible for a person who prays regularly to remain in serious sin; because the two are incompatible, one or the other will have to be given up."  (St Theresa of Avila.)
93.  "The devil is a big dog on a chain, who threatens and makes a lot of noise but who only bites those who go too near to him."  (St John Vianney.)
94.  Do everything with a desire to please God.  (Cf. Rules of Catholic Life number 6.)
95.  Avoid unnecessary occasions of sin, especially when the danger is greater.
96.  "Be good and say your prayers every day."  (Fr Paul Ward.)
97.  Spend extra time in devotions on Sundays and Holy Days, especially those of obligation, so far as this is possible.  (Cf. Rules of Catholic Life number 16.)
98.  "Be you therefore perfect, as also your heavenly Father is perfect."  (st Matt. 5, 48.)
99.  "He that loveth correction, loveth knowledge: but he that hateth reproof, is foolish."  (Prov. 12, 1.)
100.  ONLY ONE THING IS NECESSARY
A Prayer of St Alphonsus Liguori

"O my God, help me to remember -
That time is short, eternity is long.
What good is all the greatness of this world at the hour of death?
To love You, my God, and save my soul is the one thing necessary.
Without You, there is no peace, no joy.
My God, I need fear nothing but sin.
For to lose You, my God, is to lose all.
O my God, help me to remember -
That to gain all I must leave all,
That in loving You I have all good things: the infinite riches of Christ and His Church
the motherly protection of Mary,
peace beyond understanding, joy unspeakable!

"Eternal Father, Your Son has promised that whatever we ask in His Name will be given to us.  In His Name I pray: give me a burning faith, a joyful hope, a holy love for Jesus Christ.  Give me the grace of perseverance in doing Your Will in all things.  Do with me what You will.  I repent of having offended You.  Grant, O Lord, that I may love You always and never let me be separated from You.

"O my God and my All, make me a Saint!"

(Thursday, 1st May, 2008.)