Instead of working with a fixed outcome (goal), work from moment to moment, using principles that work for you. Each moment, don’t ask “am I doing something to move me to my goal?” but instead ask, “Am I doing something right now that’s based on one of my values or principles?”

Let’s say we’re working and someone interrupts us: bam, so pissed off! Life is suddenly a boiling rage. OK, maybe we’re just annoyed. Why are we so annoyed/Hulk-enraged? Simply because we wanted to continue to work uninterrupted, but some buttwad has ruined that perfect fantasy.

What’s the fastest way to get a task off your to-do list? Just delete it … or don’t put it there in the first place.

Why is it that we cannot break the bad habits that stand in our way, crushing our desires to live a healthy life, be fit, simplify, be happier? How is it that our best intentions are nearly always beaten?

If your life is full of stress, like mine once was, there are some simle things you can do to get your life to a more manageable level. Your life will probably never be stress-free — but when stress gets too high, it causes us to be unhappy and unhealthy.

It’s not that changing bad habits is impossible. But if we are so discouraged we don’t try, we will never change them. To try and to fail is of little consequence, but to never start at all is fatal to the habit change.

One of the keys to happiness — as well as productivity and effectiveness at work — is finding work you love, that you’re passionate about. Work you want to do, instead of just have to do.

Too often the trend in our society is for people to be separated from either other, to be cut off from the great mass of humanity. Strike back against the selfishness and greed of our modern world, and help out a fellow human being today. Not next month, but today.

One problem with our complicated lives these days is that many of us never find time to spend alone, in peace, without being bombarded with noise and information. Find time each day to be alone, for your mental health, by stealing pockets of time from other areas of your life.

There are days in everyone’s life when they feel overwhelmed by the stresses and tasks and projects and phone calls and emails that weigh upon them. Yes, even the minimalists like me get overwhelmed from time to time.