Preface to the second edition

How to get the most from this guide

Introduction

Step one Don’t decide what you want. If you do decide what you want, don’t think about why you want it. And if you do decide why you want it, commit to believing you can’t have it.

Step two Don’t do things on purpose

Step three Don’t stop working for a living

Step four Don’t know what you value in life (and if you do, lose sight of it)

Step five Don’t spend any of your time in the future

Step six Don’t have any goals

Step seven If you do have goals, don’t put them in writing, and if you do, don’t think too big

Step eight Don’t plan your priorities

Step nine Don’t involve other people

Step ten Don’t have a mentor or be a mentor

Step eleven Don’t get advice from people you’ve never met or who are dead

Step twelve Don’t take action right now

Step thirteen Don’t get feedback on your actions

Step fourteen Don’t adjust

Step fifteen Don’t get even more feedback, don’t be flexible…(you get the idea)

Step sixteen Don’t practise continuous improvement

Step seventeen Don’t wear a parachute

Step eighteen Don’t change your beliefs

Step nineteen Don’t stop having a deep fear of failure and of making a fool of yourself

Step twenty Don’t take personal responsibility for your life and results

Step twenty-one Don’t stop believing in luck

Step twenty-two Don’t expand your comfort zone

Step twenty-three Don’t use inside-out thinking

Step twenty-four Don’t put things in before you try to take things out

Step twenty-five Don’t control your moods

Step twenty-six Don’t transform your language

Step twenty-seven Don’t think about the first four minutes

Step twenty-eight Don’t talk and think about what you want

Step twenty-nine Don’t go to the movies

Step thirty Don’t stop being an unthinking dog

Step thirty-one Don’t ask ‘How do you do that?’ Don’t act ‘as if’. And don’t be naïve.

Step thirty-two