MY SPECIAL RULES TO GET THROUGH LIFE

CHOOSE THE COMPANY YOU KEEP

AVOID people with bad attitudes. Some people will hate you just because you don’t hate yourself, and I hate that.

NO CAN DO

THE ultimate productivity hack is saying ‘no’. Say no to anything you don’t want to do — it’s a hard choice in the moment but then you don’t have to do the thing you don’t want to do. ‘Do you want to go to Ikea this Saturday?’ No. ‘Can you pick me up from the airport?’ No. ‘Do you want a shot of Jager?’ No. ‘Do you want to marry Steve from the chip shop and have his ugly kids?’ No.

FAKE IT

PRETENDING to be a better person and being a better person is indistinguishable to the casual observer. Pretend to be happy and after a little while you might just be happy. The mask becomes the face.

TIREDNESS IS THE SOFTEST PILLOW

WORK hard both physically and mentally. Because working works, a tired dog is a happy dog.

TAKE CARE OF YOURSELF

A 10 per cent change in diet is equivalent to 100 per cent change in exercise. Exercise is the icing on the cake — the cake you shouldn’t be eating.

MAKE HARD CHOICES

IT’S pretty simple. If you can be hard on yourself now, you can be fit and rich and happy and all that good stuff in the future. But you do have to start now.