These things nabbed from numerous people, books and websites have proved useful to me…

• Take what you want, and pay for it. You have lots of choices, but most things come with a price to pay. As long as you know what the price is, you can make your choice.
• Retain your personal power - you always have choices.
• If you sit staring at a lightbulb, your world becomes a lightbulb. Get a change of perspective.
• Balance - the middle way. Not too much, not too little. Extremes are usually unhelpful.
• Asserting yourself is not the same as shouting at people. If a person does not hear you, walk away.
• Feel your feelings, don’t think them. They don’t even need a label. Mindfulness is letting things arise and pass, not avoiding them or clinging to them.
• Value your own opinion more than that of others. Most people have a vested interest in your failure, so will discourage you. Jealousy is a nasty thing.
• Say what you mean, and mean what you say, life is too short to worry about what others think.
• Everything is relative, and the same thing means different things to different people.
• The future starts here - changes can happen this minute. Just do something.
• Get active! It’s easy to think yourself into paralysis. As above, just do something, and it will shake the tree for you.