The Rules of Life

Accept What Is Done Is Done People make mistakes. Sometimes very serious ones. As often as not, the mistakes aren’t deliberate o ...

For me it was essential, if I wanted more out of my life, to embrace all the bad things as being an important part of me and to ...

Accept Yourself If you accept that what’s done is done, you are left with your- self exactly as you are. You can’t go back and c ...

like all of us, fall far short. That’s OK; don’t beat yourself up. Pick yourself up and start again. Accept that you will fail f ...

Know What Counts and What Doesn’t Being here counts. Being kind and considerate counts. Getting through each day without serious ...

There are some things in this life that are important and a whole lot of things that aren’t. It doesn’t take too much dis- crimi ...

Dedicate Your Life to Something To k n o w w h a t c o u n t s a n d w h a t d o e s n ’t , y o u h a v e t o k n o w what you a ...

what has gone before. This is what I dedicate my life to. Yes, it might be crazy; I might be crazy. But at least I have somethin ...

Be Flexible in Your Thinking Once your thinking gets crystallized, rigid, and formed, you’ve lost the battle. Once you think you ...

The second you are offered an opportunity to have an adven- ture, to change your thinking, to step outside of yourself, go for i ...

Take an Interest in the Outside World Yo u m a y b e w o n d e r i n g w h y t h i s R u l e i s h e r e a n d n o t i n w i t h ...

be around are those who take a great interest in what’s hap- pening around them. Listening to the radio the other morning, the h ...

Be on the Side of the Angels, Not the Beasts Every single day of our lives we are faced with an immense number of choices. And e ...

Now, the problem is that no one is going to tell you exactly what constitutes an angel or a beast. Here you are going to have to ...

Only Dead Fish Swim with the Stream Life is difficult. And the Rule is to thank God* it is so. If it was all fluffy and easy, we ...

the moment before the next obstacle gets thrown our way. And that’s what life is, what it is meant to be: a series of strug- gle ...

Be the Last to Raise Your Voice For me this is a really hard one. I do love to have a good shout. I came from a big, robust fami ...

There are two situations where people lose their temper—jus- tified and manipulative. The first is where you run over their foot ...

Be Your Own Adviser Deep down within all of us is a fount of wisdom. This is called intuition. Listening to your intuition is a ...

Listen, and it’s all there. If you are going to trust any adviser, who will it be? It makes sense for it to be you because you h ...