What follows is not directly related to marketing, copywriting, professional speaking and the other topics I typically cover here — and it is easy to dismiss advice like this as simplistic or trivial.

But when copywriter Kim Stacey e‐mailed this list to me, I read it carefully—and found it to be deceptively profound and effective.

Here are 10 tips for living less stressfully, from “Loving and Leaving the Good Life” by Helen Nearing: 

1. Do the best you can, whatever arises.

2. Be at peace with yourself.

3. Find a job you enjoy.

4. Live in simple conditions; get rid of clutter.

5. Contact nature every day; find the earth under your feet.

6. Take physical exercise. 

7. Donʹt worry; live one day at a time.

8. Share something every day with someone else; help someone else somehow. 

9. Take time to wonder at the world and at life; see some humor in life where you can.

10. Be kind.

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