Personal Utopia

Self Help: Guidelines Rules Etc

I would like discuss various guidelines for a better life. In that context, I am exploring various ideas and concepts, and I would like to chat. I am not using your services as a search engine, so please do not provide me links to any material. Those links distract me and make me lose my focus. There are many ideas, concepts, methods, techniques, rules, algorithms, laws, tips, and guidelines related to what I should or should not do to make my life better. In each successive prompt I will mention what I consider is the name of one such idea, concept, method, technique, rule, algorithm, guideline, etc. If I have made a mistake in the name, then please tell me the correct name. Tell me which subject area does the name originate from. Further, give me a full description of the term, and also where and how I should use it. Next tell me alternative names for the name that I used. Finally, for each of those alternative names, explain to me how the it works and its subtle differences from what my name suggests. Are you ready?


The List

  • Study philosophy for 30 minutes a day
  • Contemplate for 30 minutes a day
  • Build your own moral compass
  • Build First, Optimize Later.
  • The 80/20 Rule
  • The Law of Diminishing Returns
  • Traveling Salesman Problem
  • Quick Sort Algorithm
  • Merge Sort Algorithm
  • Optimal Stopping Problem
  • Sufficiency Principle
    • Minimal Effective Dose
    • Sufficiency Threshold
    • Social Saturation Rule
    • Micro-Discipline Rule
    • Good Enough Rule
    • Satisficing Principle
  • The ABC Method for prioritization
  • Distinguish Urgent vs Important Rule
    • The Eisenhower Matrix
  • Do a little to do a lot.
  • Work first, play later
  • Work hard, play hard
  • Explore some, exploit some
  • Partition, plan, action
  • Partition, plan, schedule, do
  • The Power of No
  • The Power of Habit
  • Master your sleep, master your life
  • Master your sleep, live a better life
  • The Morning Routine
  • The 10/10/10 Consequence Rule
  • The Growth Mindset
  • The HALT Method
  • The Ikigai
  • The GOOP Method as it applies to Goals, Options, Obstacles, and Plan. Consider other variations on the acronym theme.
  • Cut Your Losses Rule or Avoid the Sunk Cost Fallacy Rule
  • The Rule of X where X is a small positive number
    • The Rule of 1 or What is the highest priority
    • The Rule of 2
    • The Rule of 3
    • The Rule of 4
    • The Rule of 5
    • The Rule of 6
    • The Rule of 7
    • The Rule of 8
    • The Rule of 9
    • The Rule of 10
    • The Rule of a Dozen: Do one thing for 1 hour, closer to the end of the hour think about how you feel about the past hour, then move onto next thing, and so on for 12 hours a day.
    • The Rule of 20
  • The X-minute Rule where X is a small positive number
    • The 20-Second Rule
    • The 1-Minute Rule
    • The 2-Minute Rule
    • The 5-Minute Rule
    • The 20-Minute Rule
    • The Timebox Technique
    • The Pomodoro Technique
  • Mindfulness
  • Meditation
  • The Gratitude Practice
  • Nonviolent Communication
  • Radical Candor
  • Quid pro quo
  • Social Reciprocity

What other ideas, concepts, methods, techniques, rules, algorithms, laws, tips, and guidelines are there related to what I should or should not do to make my life better?