good mood = success: Richard Branson, founder of Virgin group of over 360 companies. Pic/AFP Photo

If Robin Sharma's preachings in The Greatness Guide 1, had you asking for more, the second volume will be equally unforgettable. Sharma has listed 101 simple ways to help you live "beautifully and brilliantly". Sample his work from the excerpts, and find out if they are inspiring enough to buy a copy, and stuff in your handbag.

These 12 commandments mean business. Follow them

Do new things, meet new people
Listen to Boozoo Bajou if you usually listen to Bach. Eat Malaysian food, if you usually eat meat and potatoes. Because, leadership is about trying new things. It's about getting good at
being uncomfortable.

Live an intense life
Do it all with rare passion, with bravery, and with a sparkle in your eye. Live a high-volume life. Play full-out. Take risks. Reach high. Don't look back. Be authentic. Live to the point of tears.

Success comes from simplicity
These days it's all about being simple simple ideas and tools to help organisations and people get to world class. Live a simple life, say the most successful.

Life is always fair in the end. Trust it.
The more you give to life, the more life sends back. It's just not possible for you to be great at what you do, always reaching for your brilliance and standing for excellence, and not win in the end. Life runs according to its own agenda. All you do, is be patient. Trust.

The way you do little things says a lot about the way you will do the big things
Commit to OAD: Obsessive Attention to Detail. World class organisations and people always do. Thank-you notes, remembering birthdays, an organised room, for instance, reflect the same commitment
to excellence.

Be jokeable. Relax
When was the last time you allowed someone to make you laugh so hard, tears streamed down your cheeks? How often do you sit back and giggle at life even the messy stuff? The best among us don't take ourselves too seriously. They do their best and then let go, letting life do the rest.

Ask powerful questions
In business, remarkable performers are dazzlingly good at getting to the right question, the one that speeds them to the place they need to reach.

Be a cool brand
You are a brand. No matter what you think, when people hear your name, they conjure up some association. Work on how you could become so strikingly great at what you do and who you are, that words like "innovative" or "unique", infuse their minds. Try to be cutting edge, with it, original, and revolutionary.

Beware of Victimspeak
Words shape the way you feel. They influence the way you process reality. Use world class words and you'll get to your world class life. No matter what life sends us, we are responsible for the way we respond. We can choose what we do with the situation. We can be bitter, or show up better. 

Music makes life better. Embrace it
Music will help. A lot. It will make every moment better. It is the soundtrack to a brilliant life. It offers inspiration, joy, and peace.

Stop sleeping so much
The more sleep you take, the more you need. Too much sleep keeps great people, ordinary. It minimises high-potential lives. Life is for the living, for the ones who don't lose the battle of the bed.

Jumpstart your commitment around execution
This world of ours is full of great thinkers who never realised their greatness. But, ideation without execution is mere delusion. Whatever you can do, dream you can do, begin it. Reach deep within yourself, and have the discipline to do whatever it takes to make the idea a reality.