The Rules of Life: A Personal Code for Living a Better, Happier, More Successful Life - Softcover

Templar, Richard

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0131743961 ISBN 13: 9780131743960

Publisher: Financial Times/ Prentice Hall, 2006

Synopsis

Think about the world’s happiest, most contented, most fulfilled people...

How’d they get that way?

 

Is it their genes? No. Money? Absolutely not.

It’s about the small choices they make, every day.

Things you can do. Things you can change.

 

It’s about what they know and you can learn:

The Rules of Life.

 

Here they are:

 

100 personal, practical rules for dreaming, planning, living, loving, and overcoming even life’s toughest adversities... 

For knowing what matters... learning from experience...using your intuition... changing what you can...de-stressing... staying younger... getting stronger.

 

Read ’em. Learn ’em. Live ’em.

You’ll feel better. You’ll live better.

You’ll be a better friend, partner, parent, child, human being.

 

You’ll do it: one small, simple step at a time.

One step a day, every day. Starting today.

 

Introduction  xi

 

Part I: Rules for You  1

Part II: Partnership Rules  105

Part III: Family and Friends Rules  141

Part IV: Social Rules  171

Part V: World Rules  201

About this title

Review:

"Most of the rules found in this 219-page book are delightfully sensible. They certainly live up to Templar's declaration that these guiding principles "will help you get more out of life, shrug off adversity more easily and generally be a happier, calmer, more fulfilled person." Indeed, not only will you feel the benefits but also everyone else around you. " - The Star (Malaysia), August 2006

"And they're not really rules, they're things we kind of knew already but have forgotten because we were too busy going to the gym and the therapist trying to figure out what was missing and there it was all the time... staring us in the face!"

- Radio Anna Livia (January 2006)

"Follow Templar's rules and enjoy a more fulfilled existence. Down-to-earth and witty it will change your attitude to life."

- Red, (July 2006)

From the Back Cover:

A personal code for living a better, happier, more successful kind of life

 

Some people seem to be just good at life. They glide effortlessly onwards and upwards, always seeming to know the right things to say and do, in every situation. Everybody likes them – they are great to work with and to live with. They are happy (for the most part) and they know how to roll with life’s punches. They have time for everybody and always seem to know what’s important (and how to deal with what’s not).

Is there something they know and do that we don’t? Is it something we could all learn? The answer is a most definite yes. They know the Rules of Life.

The Rules of Life are the guiding principles that will help you achieve more, shrug off adversity more easily, get more out of life and generally be a happier, calmer, more fulfilled person. You'll feel the benefits – and so will everyone around you.

 

It's your life. How good could it be?

About this edition

• Publisher: Financial Times/ Prentice Hall
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0131743961
• ISBN 13: 9780131743960
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 240