Incredible Women
Alicia Keys’ golden rules
One of the most successful artists of all time, with 15 Grammy awards to her name and counting, singer-songwriter ALICIA KEYS is also a dedicated campaigner for AIDS research through her non-profit organization Keep A Child Alive. Here, the straight-talking New Yorker shares the rules she lives her life by.
LOVE WINS. I tell my sons Egypt, seven, and Genesis, three this all the time.
Perspective is EVERYTHING. How you see YOURSELF is what you will be.
DON’T take any s**t. Tell it like it is – HOLDING it in will KILL you.
Do it for LOVE. Not money, not acclaim. Do it because it BURNED so deeply within you that you couldn’t turn AWAY.
Good ENERGY trumps all. A person can be the ‘BEST’ whoever they are, best at whatever they do, but if their energy isn’t GOOD, don’t DEAL with them.
Time alone will save your LIFE – don’t put yourself on the back burner. One of my FAVORITE sayings by spiritual teacher Yogi Bhajan is: “If you don’t go WITHIN, you go WITHOUT.”
Good LOVE keeps you HAPPY and good SEX makes you HEALTHY. Have and GIVE both often.
DON’T give it all up. Make people use their IMAGINATION, make them want more – it’s the SEXIEST tool we have.
The physical body is NEVER as BEAUTIFUL or as POWERFUL as what’s WITHIN. You can be the most outward-facing beauty in the WORLD with the ugliest heart and, I PROMISE, you won’t look GOOD.
My most IMPORTANT golden rule is the ACTUAL golden rule: ‘Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.’ If we all did this one SIMPLE thing, it could SAVE the WORLD.
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