Here’s a story….
TR was going to check out a hotel in Maui as a future seminar venue. The first thing to go wrong with the trip was the discovery that there were no first class seats on the plane. Being particularly tall, and having recently sustained a sporting injury, he preferred extra legroom and comfort if he was travelling any distance on a commercial airline.
Well, that wasn’t going to happen this time. So, he was pissed off, but he decided he was going to do it anyway – and enjoy it. Once aboard the plane he started looking around for something to make him joyous and that’s when he made contact with an old woman on the airplane. For fun they did a mini ‘Mexican Wave’ to inject a bit of joy to the cabin. Soon he was so into talking with the woman and listening to her that he forgot his own pain . . . for the whole five hours of the flight!
Afterwards he admitted that he felt so stupid that he had allowed his old rules to keep him from feeling happy.
The message:
If rules are keeping you from being happy – get rid of the rules!
TR also said he enjoyed seeing the rules of others, such as his wife whose flying rules included putting in ear plugs and wearing an eye mask.
‘Learn to enjoy the different personalities.’
If a rule doesn’t serve – get rid of it.
