FiftyEasyWaysToMakeLifeEasier

1. At the end of the day, plan tomorrow.
2. Travel light. Regularly empty out the bags and wallet of the accumulated debris.
3. Write down their names. Nobody minds at all.
4. Look for the best.
5. Plan 'down' time as specifically as 'work' time.
6. Double-check which terminal it is before you leave for the airport.
7. Make your health central to your life: think, live, breath, eat and drink wellness.
8. Do not be afraid to ask for help.
9. Get enough sleep.
10. Create and use check-lists.
11. Realise there is no perfect job but there is a perfect approach to any job: find the intrinsic worth in all you do. Chop wood, carry water.
12. Remember who your friends are.
13. Offer help and notice the Earth spin more easily.
14. Never, ever complain again.
15. Alternate all drinks at the office with a couple of glugs of simple, no nonsense water.
16. Start the meeting knowing the action you wish to achieve.
17. Practise until you get really good.
18. Converse, chat and 'hang out' more.
19. Never say 'I don't have time'.
20. Use the camera on your phone to photograph stuff e.g. the timetable you need to remember.
21. Write every day. Rain or shine.
22. Sort your washes: coloureds, whites, low temp.
23. Build your spreadsheet assuming it will actually be really, really tough in the next 6 months.
24. Use a pencil when writing in your diary.
25. Switch off e-mail while working.
26. Consider that there are many kinds of love. All are fun. But they are very different.
27. Buy decent coffee.
28. Simplify everything.
29. Notice the small, the medium and the large of life.
30. The famous names of a nation or company are not the nation nor the firm.
31. Never send a reply to an e-mail immediately. Let it brew. Then send it.
32. Listen.
33. Reflect that so much great work was once done without e-mail nor PowerPoint nor even Face book.
34. Take walks more often.
35. Cook twice the amount and freeze the rest for another day.
36. File it.
37. Do airline travel with a fantastic novel. Delays, shuffles and security become a breeze.
38. Get a good accountant.
39. Be able to change scale: from strategy to tactics. From country to globe.
40. Ask what is reality, here? For relationships, for business, for the first novel expectations.
41. Write it down.
42. Remember that it's simply a point of view which could augment your current different perspective.
43. Do one thing at a time.
44. Make your own super healthy soups.
45. Have a master list: one definitive list of all you want to do and have to do.
46. Sit and think.
47. Remember the staggering enormity of it all. A planet with life. A lonely solar system. One mind-boggling universe.
48. Decide to make life easier. As it is.
49. Turn your decisions into actions.
50. Immediately.