Sign up for our newsletters! Dr. Robin Smith When you've played
board games, how have you learned how to play them? Did a friend
teach you the rules? Did you read the instructions? Or did you
just wing it and try to figure it out yourself?  Dr. Robin says
board games are like the game of life: There are lots of rules
about how things work—in relationships, jobs, finances—but the
problem is many of us don't have the rules to the game. It's the
reason why we can't figure out why things aren't working out in
our favor, Dr. Robin says.  Dr. Robin urges us to sit down and
make an assessment of what rules we've been living by. "Decide
whether or not these rules are working for you," she says. "And
then, when you fall off the wagon and something isn't working,
you can go back to your own written document, look at your rules
and say, 'That's where I went wrong!'"  By creating a set of
rules for your life, you can track yourself, Dr. Robin says. You
can "see the ways in which you're honoring your own self-
created, sel