The Rules of Life

Get Used to Stepping Outside Yo u r C o m fo r t Z o n e Be prepared to be a little bit brave every day. Why? Because if you don ...

We impose a lot of restrictions on ourselves that limit us, hold us back. We think we couldn’t do that, wouldn’t feel happy with ...

Learn to Ask Questions Look, you may not like the answers, but at least you’ll know. Most of the world’s problems can be laid fi ...

Yo u c a n a l w a y s t e l l t h e r e a l R u l e s P l a y e r s ; t h e y ’ r e t h e o n e s asking questions while others ...

Have Dignity I’ve spent years watching successful people, and I don’t just mean successful as in having lots of money or a big-s ...

Dignity is about showing self-respect and having quiet self- esteem. It’s amazing how others will respect you and hold you in gr ...

It’s OK to Feel Big Emotions If we’re busily maintaining dignity and being peaceful, it’s tempting to think that we’re detached, ...

it out on innocent people—if you can’t express the anger appropriately, then you need to find a way of letting it out that isn’t ...

Keep the Faith Keeping the faith is about sticking to your promises, going down into darkness rose-crowned, proud, and unrelucta ...

KEEPING THE FAITH IS SOMETHING YOU DO. BEING A GOODY-GOODY IS WHEN YOU TRY TO CONVERT OTHERS. ...

You’ll Never Understand Everything Look, we are tiny complex humans in a huge complex world (and even bigger universe). It’s all ...

We are now collecting information faster than any human, or any computer, can process it. We can’t understand it all. We can’t e ...

Know Where True Happiness Comes From No, I’m not about to reveal the secret people have sought since the beginning of time—where ...

takes us to get over it. People get addicted to buying new stuff or falling in love or whatever because they just love that feel ...

Life Is a Pizza I love my kids. I love reading to them, playing with them, watching them grow up, listening to them talk, teachi ...

love your partner but hate the way she sulks after an argue- ment, accept her as she is and recognize that the sulking is the bi ...

Know When to Let Go— When to Walk Away Sometimes you have to just walk away. We all hate to fail, hate to give up, hate to give ...

I don’t want to be rude, but your problems—hey, my prob- lems, too—won’t even warrant a footnote in the history of the universe. ...

Retaliation Leads to Escalation Now, I’ll be honest here. Among my friends, I’m not actually known for my tolerance or my abilit ...

scheme and plan our Machiavellian strategies over days or even months. Brothers and sisters can go from a minor disagreement to ...