30 Rules of IKIGAI

1. If you aim to improve by 10%, consider what you need to do to improve by 100%.

2. Include at least one 'impossibility' in your day-to-day agenda.

3. Practice patience and perseverance with what resolved to do.

4. Devote 21 days to implementing a positive, new habit. 

5. Ask people you trust for feedback on what you are doing.

6. Seek out a mentor who can guide you in your passion. 

7. Imitate and improve on what you like for your next project.

8. Identify what you don't like in order to discover, through a process of elimination, what you do.

9. Each week develop a virtue you want to strengthen. 

10. Share your passion with like-minded people to learn and improve together.

11. Get out of your comfort zone and explore new territories.

12. Prioritize important things ahead of urgent ones.

13. Push aside what is neither essential nor worthwhile in your life.

14. Baptize your project with a name that may spur you into action.

15. Recover your childhood values and dreams.

16. Motivate yourself by recalling your life's "greatest hits." 

17. Recognize your "level one" friends and give them the attention they deserve.

18. Join the dots from your past to understand your present.

19. Establish a screen-free and virtual life-free time slot. 

20. Make "slow life" a part of your meals and leisure time. 

21. Do just one thing at a time, without getting side-tracked. 

22. Write something personal for at least 5 minutes each day.

23. Take up the art of haiku to get to know your emotions. 

24. Take the crucial decisions you need at this time in your life.

25. "Sleep on" the questions you still have no answer to. 

26. Flow by drawing the enso circle.

27. Solve a koan each week.

28. Practice giving your undivided attention to your every- day activities.

29. Let yourself be carried along by the serendipities and other coincidences of your life.

30. Carry out an altruistic act of kindness every day.