No one is thinking about you as much as you are
Cut your nails after a bath or shower as they will be softer and cut smoother
Don’t take stairs with hands in your pockets.
When my brother was around 12, he was standing still, then burst into movement, had socks on while standing on tile floor and his hands in his pockets. His feet went backwards and face planted him on the tile, landed directly on his chin.
Surprisingly it didn’t break anything, just made a huge cut and spewed blood everywhere. Wild to think about it now.
Sacrifice anything outside of basic living expenses to max out your 401k(or similar), and put more in a non-tax advantaged brokerage if you can. Do not touch your 401k before retirement for any reason. Never take out a home equity loan, do a cash out refi, or roll other debt into your mortgage. (Matters of literal life or death excluded, of course.)
Retiring at 48 with a paid off house beats the hell out of succumbing to the temptation of lifestyle boat in your 20s.
Don’t be shitty.
2 I try to live by
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start in the way you intend to continue - so don’t just accept something you can’t stand forever as you may not be able to change it. it’s much less work overall to deal with problems upfront and then not have to deal with the little consequences of ignoring them for months/years/etc.
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don’t put it down put it away - so many messes are created by setting stuff down for a minute and never coming back until there are 30 more things on top of it and it’s an archeological dig to clean. if it takes less than a minute to put away properly then just do it immediately instead of creating hours of cleaning for you or your partner when you finally can’t stand how cluttered and dirty your place is
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Choose your battles. Not everything is worth the energy.
Don’t make promises when you’re happy; don’t make decisions when you’re sad.
Working hard is pointless and everyone should go fuck themselves.
If it’s worth doing right it’s also worth doing half-assed.
To me this means it’s better to let go of perfectionism lest it becomes paralyzing. Strive for the best conceivable result all you want but be content with the best achievable result as well.
Dad: “Look both ways before crossing the street”
Me as a child: “But this is a one-way street”
Dad: “You look both ways because people are idiots”
My dad had a saying, “you’re dead right”. Doesn’t matter if you’re right, you’re still dead if they come the wrong way
Sacrifice anything outside of basic living expenses to max out your 401k(or similar), and put more in a non-tax advantaged brokerage if you can. Do not touch your 401k before retirement for any reason. Never take out a home equity loan, do a cash out refi, or roll other debt into your mortgage. (Matters of literal life or death excluded, of course.)
Retiring at 48 with a paid off house beats the hell out of succumbing to the temptation of lifestyle boat in your 20s.
Remember that any advice your parent’s give you is a minimum of 20 years past the ‘best by’ date.
Parents
Half of life is showing up.
Death doesn’t care if you had the right-of-way
“Never skimp on anything that goes between you and the ground.”
