It can be a bit daunting to read a book with 100 Rules for a happier more successful life. I mean, where do you start? You’ll probably find you follow a few of them already, but how can you be expected to learn dozens of new Rules all at once and start putting them all into practice? Don’t panic, you don’t have to. Remember, you don’t have to do anything – you’re doing this because you want to. Let’s keep it at a manageable level so you go on wanting to.

You can go about this any way you like, but if you want advice, here’s what I recommend. Go through the book and pick out three or four Rules that you feel would make a big difference to you, or that jumped out at you when you first read them, or that seem like a good starting point for you. Write them down here:

Just work on these for a couple of weeks until they’ve become ingrained and you don’t have to try so hard with them. They’ve become a habit. Great stuff, well done. Now you can repeat the exercise with a few more Rules you’d like to tackle next. Write them here:

Excellent. Now you’re really making progress. Keep working through the Rules at your own pace – there’s no rush. And remember, I’m not the only one who can observe other people and see what works for them that could work for me too. So when you identify a Rule I haven’t included here, you can include it yourself. Keep a list of additional Rules you want to emulate and write them down:

It seems a shame to keep these new Rules to yourself, so please feel free to share them with other people. If you’d like to share them on my Facebook page I’d love to hear from you: www.facebook.com/richardtemplar.