What 10 would you choose?

Jonathan Romain, a columnist for the British newspaper The Guardian proposes the following as THE TEN COMMANDMENTS he will try to follow for 2009:

1. You shall not complain about a tragedy in the news without doing something about it (be it sending a donation, writing a letter of protest or whatever else is helpful).

2. You shall play your role in protecting the environment by cutting back on waste, recycling materials and other measures, even if they involve effort or inconvenience.

3. You shall not look the other way when you hear someone cry out in the street, but either give help yourself or alert others to that need.

4. You shall regard giving to charity as an essential everyday activity and budget for it in your weekly expenditure.

5. You shall enjoy life as much as possible, although without doing so at the expense of someone else.

6. You shall seek to fulfill your own potential, so that each year is a new year and not a repetition of the previous one.

7. You shall not hurt other people with malicious gossip or betraying confidences.

8. You shall not protect wrongdoers, whether they be at work or in the family, but shall expose misdeeds.

9. You shall not give up on a task because it is enormous but start the work and make your contribution to it.

10. You shall see part of yourself in all whom you meet and recognise both the failings and the abilities that you share.

Were you given the opportunity to write a Top Ten List of Do's and Don't's for yourself, what would they be? Would a new personal list make a greater impact on your life than the Ten Words from Exodus 20?