Rules for Engagement - Rule 7 - Break All The Rules

This might seem counter-productive but hear me out.

It’s important to not take the previous seven rules too seriously or obsessively, otherwise you sacrifice more important aspects of your life. Just like in any body swapping hit movie, you’ll learn that you’ve been taking certain aspects of your life for granted.

If you are focused on being productive, that’s great, but you could be forgetting your partner, family, friends, the fortune you already have or lucky life you already live. What I mean is these rules are effective at building habits so everyday you’re moving foreward but don’t focus so much on the future that you forget the life you’re living today. So take days where you do something for you and your loved ones. Have dinner with your family, spend the day in bed with your partner, get smashed with your friends down the pub and take a look around once in a while and take stock of how lucky you are and how much you have to be grateful for because it might not be there forever.

So this is the last rule in this series for a while. If I think of anymore, I can add to it later but this seems like a good place to end Rules for Engagement. So remember life is only what you make it so get up and exercise, think of what you’re doing now and ask if it makes you happy, eat well, organize yourself, don’t forget to rest and play and finally forget all these rules when you’re ready to live your life with those you love.

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