The Rules of Life

No Fear, No Surprise, No Hesitation, No Doubt Where does this come from? It’s from a seventeenth-century samurai warrior. This w ...

No Hesitation Weigh the odds and then just get on with it. If you hang back, the opportunity will have passed. If you spend too ...

I Wish I’d Done That—and I Will Regrets, I’ve had a few.... You might be expecting me to say there’s no room for regrets or “if ...

(with family if necessary)? Or how about making firm plans that when you retire you’ll put this at the top of your “to do” list? ...

It’s OK to Give Up Yo u k n o w h o w y o u s o m e t i m e s h e a r s t o r i e s a b o u t p e o p l e w h o have failed thei ...

Quitting is when you give up because you don’t want to put in the effort, you can’t be bothered, you don’t like hard work, you’r ...

Count to Ten—or Recite “Baa Baa Black Sheep” Every now and then someone or something is really going to get your goat. But you’r ...

when I got outside by the local boys who were sitting on a brick wall. “Saves waiting in the queue,” he confided. I left the sho ...

Change What You Can Change; Let Go of the Rest Time is short. This is another of those facts you can’t escape; it’s a given. If ...

Pope, you might have a hand in shaping the next Papal Bull. If you have the ear of a general, you might avert a war. If you have ...

Aim to Be the Very Best at Everything You Do— Not Second Best Wow. What a tall order. This is a seriously difficult thing to aim ...

liberating is that? Infinitely. Having established that you’ll aim for the very best and you’ve set the standards of what that i ...

Don’t Expect to Be Perfect OK, so you’re aiming to be the very best at everything. But what if you fail? So long as you tried, t ...

Yo u a r e t h e s u m t o t a l o f e v e r y t h i n g t h a t h a s h a p p e n e d i n y o u r life—the successes and the fa ...

Don’t Be Afraid to Dream This may seem incredibly obvious, incredibly easy, but you would be surprised how many people seriously ...

The only note of caution here—and I do speak from personal experience—is to be very careful of what you do wish for, what you dr ...

If You’re Going to Jump Off a Bridge, Make Sure You Know How Deep the Water Is Me, I’ve always been a risk-taker. Too much of a ...

I’ve been gullible in the past. Friends have said, “Come in, the water’s lovely! Join us in this business venture/vacation/game. ...

Don’t Dwell on the Past Whatever the past was, it’s gone. There is nothing you can do to change anything that has gone before, a ...

Every day that we wake up is a fresh start, and we can make of it what we want, write what we want on that blank canvas. Keeping ...