A few days ago Leo Babauta posted 28 Brilliant Tips for Living Life over on his Zenhabits blog. It is a compilation of tips suggested after he asked “What’s the best tip that has made your life better/easier?”.

Now some of them seem trite, some I don’t agree with and some just don’t work for me. Which is fine; that’s as it should be. Nevertheless there is a nucleus which many of us — me included! — would I think benefit from. So here’s a selection.

• Use travel delay as opportunity to stop rather than get stressed. When the world stands still, let it.
• Stop clinging and embrace change as a constant.
• Try and give people the benefit of the doubt if they snap at you. Might be something going on you don’t know about.
• Life is so much easier when you make a decision within 5 minutes. Longer than that and you get bogged down & never decide.
• Friendship is a gift, not a possession.
• Mostly nothing is that serious as it seems in the first moment.
• When you think you want something, put it on the planner a month from now. When that month rolls around and you still want it, OK.
• Smiling … seems to help with most things. 🙂
• Expecting less or nothing, and just being. That way disappointments are nil and you are pleasantly surprised often.
• QTIP: quit taking it personally.
• When in doubt, take a deep breath.