5 simple rules are:
  1. Free your heart from hatred.
  2. Free your mind from worries.
  3. Live simply.
  4. Give more.
  5. Expect less.

Firstly, to free your heart from hatred. By simply forgiving and forgetting, one would be able to smile more often, expressing oneself freely instead of being trapped by the hatred and anger. Inhale love, exhale hate. Let love into yourself, push away the temptation to hate, purge it out of yourself. Forgiveness allows us to take responsibility of our own happiness. 

Next would be to free your mind from worries. By simply stop worrying and thinking about negative thoughts or possible outcomes, we can be much happier. Stay grounded to the present, worrying does not help to solve anything. By worrying, we are missing out on our current activity and we are also unable to do anything about our worries right in this moment. As it would be hard to completely stop thinking, a tip is to set aside a worry time each day. Before we go in-depth to our worries, during the day we can just keep it aside and tell yourself to think about it during your worry time, then during our worry time which is probably during the end of the day, we start thinking about our troubles and then start thinking of plans if it is solvable.

Live simply, a really short and sweet rule. Having a simple life beats everything, a simple life with no worries to fret. Sometimes people tend to have too much commitments, having their life much complicated than it should be. For certain people, by simply dropping a commitment, life can be much simpler and happier! 

A selfless rule, "Give more". 












Last but not least, expect less. When we are not expecting for more, we are least likely to be met with disappointment. When expecting less, we would be more satisfied and hence a greater happiness. We can actually be easily satisfied having lower expectations. Expect lesser, be happier!

Why not just follow these steps and spend life in a more meaningful way and one filled with happiness?

-Yuxin