{"id":13160,"date":"2011-02-21T05:07:09","date_gmt":"2011-02-21T10:07:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/improvisedlife.com\/?p=13160"},"modified":"2013-08-29T12:36:24","modified_gmt":"2013-08-29T16:36:24","slug":"tolstoys-rule-for-living","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/improvisedlife.com\/2011\/02\/21\/tolstoys-rule-for-living\/","title":{"rendered":"tolstoy&#8217;s big rule for living"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_13180\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13180\" style=\"width: 525px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/improvisedlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Tolstoy.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13180\" title=\"Tolstoy\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/improvisedlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Tolstoy.jpg\" width=\"525\" height=\"396\" srcset=\"https:\/\/improvisedlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Tolstoy.jpg 525w, https:\/\/improvisedlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Tolstoy-100x75.jpg 100w, https:\/\/improvisedlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Tolstoy-300x226.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 525px) 100vw, 525px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-13180\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">World History Archive\/Alamy\/Alamy<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.happiness-project.com\/happiness_project\/2011\/01\/10-rules-of-life-from-tolstoy-what-are-your-rules.html\">The Happiness Project<\/a> recently posted <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Leo_Tolstoy\">Tolstoy<\/a>&#8216;s Ten Rules of Life, found in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0802137687\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=theimprolife-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217153&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=0802137687\">Tolstoy, Henri Troyat&#8217;s biography<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=0802137687&amp;camp=217153&amp;creative=399349\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/> of the great Russian writer. Among maxims like &#8220;Get up early&#8221; and &#8220;Keep away from women&#8221; is one that we found incredibly clarifying and focusing:<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;Have a goal for your whole life, a goal for one section of your life, a goal for a shorter period and a goal for the year; a goal for every month, a goal for every week, a goal for every day, a goal for every hour and for every minute, and sacrifice the lesser goal to the greater.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We discovered that asking ourselves &#8220;What is our goal for this moment&#8221; can mean the opposite of the usual &#8220;goals-for-getting-ahead-and-keeping-tight-control-on-life&#8221; thinking. It makes us ask &#8220;What&#8217;s REALLY important here?&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Happiness Project recently posted Tolstoy&#8216;s Ten Rules of Life, found in Tolstoy, Henri Troyat&#8217;s biography of the great Russian writer. 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