With
time and age comes perspective. I was
thinking about the things I wish I had known or at least acted on when I was
younger. Here is my list.
1)
Junk food has long-term consequences.
2)
You can’t escape your own genetics.
3)
Your kids pick up your bad habits and
language faster and remember it longer than your good habits and a civil
tongue.
4)
If you need a long-term product (homes
excluded in the present climate), figure out how to buy it now. Whatever it is will increase in price much
faster over time than your income will increase. Fifteen years from now, you’ll feel like a
genius for getting in on the ground floor.
5)
Don’t leave school until you have the
degree. The time you think you’ll have
later to finish your education never seems to materialize. And again, it will never be as affordable as
it is at this moment.
6)
Circumstances change…get over it.
7)
You can’t change others. You can only change yourself so others react
differently toward you. As the saying
goes, if you keep doing the same things, you keep getting the same results.
8)
Try something new every day, or every week,
or every month. Even if it is as
insignificant as taking a street you’ve never driven. Everything in life is a matter of
perspective. Either change how you look
at something, or look at something you’ve never looked at before.
9)
Put yourself out there and meet
new people. More is accomplished by networking
than you can possibly imagine.
10) There
is no shortage of mean, nasty, cruel, vindictive people in this world. If one angers you, do not sink to his or her
level. Just walk away.
11) There
is a universal law of reciprocity. What
you put out eventually comes back to bite you, so only put out positive
thoughts and actions.
12) Always
listen to that quiet voice inside your head.
Its name is intuition. When it
tells you to go for it, then go for it.
When it tells you beware, then stop.
Intuition is your first line of defense.
Learn to use it.
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