THE GUIDE is overflowing with life skills for the young and young at heart. The comprehensive, well structured and practical advice is delivered in an entertaining and accessible style. It\'s a resource to influence others without being a preachy and condescending jerk.

1. Life skills for the young and young at heart. Well structured and practical advice delivered in an entertaining and accessible style. "...an essential family resource, like a dictionary or an atlas..." - Radio NZ National. www.terrywilliams.info

3. If you’re not making mistakes, you’re just not trying. If you keep making the same mistakes, you’re just not learning.

4. Your neo-cortex is thinking, “Hmm, a cuboid object of approximately 800 grams in weight in approaching my cranium at a rate of acceleration of 2 metres per second per second.” Your limbic system is thinking, “Why did they throw a brick at me. I’m a nice person. Why don’t they like me?” Your reptilian brain is thinking, “Duck!!”

5. Our survival and progress as a species has been reliant on dissatisfaction. Necessity is the mother of invention but unhappiness, failure and dissatisfaction are the three guys who might be the father.

6. “The stuff you own ends up owning you” – Tyler Durden (‘Fight Club’)

7. If any of your friends attempts to give you a diet book, take it. Take that diet book and beat them violently and relentlessly with it. This counts as exercise and stress release at the same time. (That’s what friends are for.)

8. Do not overstuff the washing machine. Your clothes will not get very clean if they can’t move about (just like when you shower with a group of friends.)

9. When screening potential flatmates, the most important criteria are lifestyle compatibility and shared values. These are more important than the size of their LCD screen..

10. If you sow and water some seeds into the carpet of an ex-lover’s car, they will grow and be a real pain to remove. Try sowing a flower arrangement as a poignant reminder of what could’ve been.

11. Borrowing money for a car is financially irrational. However most people do and you probably will too. It’s a lot easier to deal with your own irrationality than it is to go without the bitchin’ ride you’ve been hanging out for.

12. True love is like socks: You need two and they should match. You can get by for a long time if they don’t match but people will notice and eventually you’ll have to admit they should match. (By which time at least one sock is worn out and no one in their right mind would want it any more. You try and repair it but you live in fear it could fall apart at any moment.)

13. “Without love what are we worth? Eighty nine cents. Eighty nine cents’ worth of chemicals walking around lonely.” – Hawkeye (M*A*S*H)

14. TIPS FOR ENDING RELATIONSHIPS #7 Fake your own death or, if you’re feeling particularly confident, fake the death of your soon-to-be ex-partner.

15. Enter another relationship but... ...with the same person.

16. Variety and diversity are the keys to strength and endurance in any organism and the same goes for a relationship.

17. 50% of CVs contain spelling errors. Keep yours accurate and up-to-date.

18. If a train station is where the train stops, what’s a workstation?...

19. Casinos? Try staying home, throwing dice with the cat and setting fire to your money. The end result is the same AND you save on petrol and finding a park, plus the cat offers more sincere companionship.

20. Living life without a plan is like watching TV when someone else has the remote control. www.terrywilliams.info