How many rules have you set for your life?

The idea or thought of setting rules for yourself might feel constricting at first, and to a certain extent it is, but they also allow you to create a structure for your life.

Setting rules for yourself allows you to automate certain areas of your life, therefore, reducing some of the decisions you have to make. Rules are often easier than self-discipline because they require less thinking.

Rules can be temporary or permanent. You can use the structure of rules as a scaffolding to help you accomplish goals that you’re attempting to reach and then implement new rules for new goals.

One of the best things about creating rules for your life is that you can change or eliminate them when you feel that they’re not working for you. This doesn’t mean you break or change them because you’re not enjoying them, since the idea of rules is to keep you on track, and at times staying on track means saying no to things that might be tempting in the moment.

If you decide to set new rules for yourself then start small and with one rule at a time. Setting too many at once, like goal setting, will overwhelm you and there’s a high chance that you’ll end up breaking them.

Find a few simple rules that you can use to unload some of your mental load, to free up some thinking space and see what you can do with the additional time and mental bandwidth rule-setting gives you.

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