The 7 (Almost Universal) Rules To Break ASAP

1. The one where time=money i.e. you work an hour and are paid for an hour. Start raising your standards, working smarter and getting more creative until one day a distinct tipping point is reached where people notice that they don't want you for your time but for your value. They realise just twenty minutes of your time is worth a week's pay. Then you've cracked it: you no longer are dealing with a finite resource (time); you have access to an infinite resource i.e. your value. Now your earnings can be unlimited.
2. The one where keeping fit is a chore, a bore and doesn't happen. Stop working at going to the gym and hating it and start working at finding an activity which keeps you fit and you enjoy. Make a list of possibilities starting with cycling and try them all; that in itself should get you fit.
3. The one where age has become an excuse. Oh, I'm too young for that position.Oh, I'm certainly too old to be starting that now. Bull**it. Many age considerations are purely mental. Decide that you can do it and ...you can.
4. The one where you will only give if you get. Not a bad rule for commercial negotiation. But not all of Life is a commercial exchange. There are those starting out on the tough path you have trodden. There are those less fortunate. Help them out, with no expectation of return.
5. The one where your book is simply not going to happen. Yes it is. You have ideas. You can write. You can create. Thus a book is born. Go for it.
6. The one where happiness=stuff. Oh, boy does it seem to. But think about it for a moment. The chips are down...what would you really, really want? Now be delighted it's not quite that bad and you can enjoy those very things.
7. The one where the TV is central to the household. Be ruthless. Banish it. Limit it. Reduce the number. And notice the sense of calm and productivity which descends.