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1. Make little things bother you; don't just let them, make them!
2. Lose your perspective of things, and keep it lost.
Don't put first things first.
3. Get yourself a good worry - one that you cannot do anything about but worry.
4. Be a perfectionist: condemn yourself and others for not achieving perfection.
5. Be right, always right, perfectly right all the time.
Be the only one who is right, and be rigid about your rightness.
6. Don't trust or believe people, or accept them at anything but their worst and weakest.
Be suspicious.
Impute ulterior motives to them.
7. Always compare yourself unfavourably to others, which is the guarantee of instant misery.
8. Take personally, with a chip on your shoulder, everything that happens to you that you don't like.
9. Don't give yourself wholeheartedly or enthusiastically to anyone or to anything.
Use this prescription for a while and you will be guaranteed unhappiness.
I obtained this little "tongue in cheek" bit of reverse psychology, from my daughter, Marni, who used it during a sermon she preached at her Church on "Joy". She found it on the internet.
I have also used it many times during motivational talks to network marketers. What surprises me however, is that most people relate it to their spouse, but rarely to themselves.
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