1. Don’t __________ (control your impulses and practice restraint)
2. Slow down, physically and mentally
3. Be grateful for what you have every day, but use what you are missing as motivation to keep going
4. Stop pleasing, accommodating, yielding and agreeing so much
5. Be honest and direct
6. Eliminate expectations from your interactions with others
7. Give more, ask for less
8. Be empathic, understanding and forgiving, but never a pushover (or a victim)
9. Act as soon as possible
10. Reflect as often as possible
11. Learn as much as possible
12. Be useful
13. Do the things that must be done
14. Make a deliberate effort to enjoy the mundane activities in your life, because they make up 80% of it
15. Keep moving → rest → repeat
16. Avoid stupidity like the plague (starting with your own)
17. Despise and repel feelings of nostalgia, melancholy or longing, because they turn a positive past experience (that you cannot go back to) into a depressing one (because you are sad you cannot go back to it), all for no logical or useful reason, whatsoever
18. Aim for: - 75% disciplined order - 20% adaptability to external chaos - 5% intentional chaos
19. Dive headfirst into your fears (this one is hard)