Rules of Everything

RULE 4

Zen it

Here’s a lesson I learnt like a thunderbolt from someone else, and it came as a huge surprise after decades of being intermittently stressed and frustrated about various and random things, as most of us are. Well it may surprise you to know that most of that stress is optional. There’s simply no need for it. You can just turn it off.

Yeah, me too. I didn’t believe it at first. All those years of getting stressed by slow traffic, and difficult colleagues, and exams and interviews, and computer malfunctions, and the hot water running out just as I got under the shower. All wasted. I didn’t need to get stressy about any of it. I just wish someone had explained that to me sooner.

It wouldn’t be putting it too strongly to say that it’s ...