Thanks for sharing. I'm not looking for effortless: I'm looking to getting things done... which is, incidentally, the title of a technique you cite. :)

- Stoicism.

This is something I'd been thinking about lately, thanks to Dr. Jordan Peterson and his quite down-to-earth lessons on the human nature. He's been talking about "being the reliable person at the funeral" as a realistic, attainable goal for personal development. Dr. Peterson says that you have to put effort into making it through the terrible things unbroken, else you're going to drown - and that's no way to making a good life, if there even is such a thing.

Marcus Aurelius and his Meditations is on my reading list.

- Mindfulness.

Been reading a lot about it, too. Thankfully, I got into it before the whole fad began, because when I started hearing all about meditation and how good it is for ya, I immediately jumped away from that route. I don't like fads, and for a long time, it sounded like one of them, being mindlessly promoted by everyone and their blind grandmother.

Again, thanks for sharing those.

Have you read Allen Carr and his The Easy Way to Stop Smoking, by any chance? I'm wondering about from the fad perspective, since all the thing you've listed are getting popular in the circle I inhabit.