100 Truths You Will Learn Too Late

The simple act of taking a pen and writing down the list of problems affecting you and the ways they negatively impact your life will often be all you need.

To get “promoted” to the next stage in life, do not do what got you to the current stage. Instead, do what people at the next stage do.

People don’t want to be happy and successful. Instead, they want to be happy and successful in a particular way, thus ending up unhappy and unsuccessful.

ACTION: What would you do if you didn’t feel obligated to act like the person you’ve been?

Life is too long to be lived for the short term, and too unique to be lived as others would.

You do not have to be your past. You can be someone else without anyone having to give you permission. Authorization to change is mostly an illusion. Most changes that last are bottom-up, initiated without someone else’s permission.

To get “promoted” to the next stage in life, do not do what got you to the current stage. Instead, do what people at the next stage do.

“If you keep doing what you are currently doing, how will your life be in 10 years?” ACTION: Answer the question above. Honestly.

“If you keep doing what you are currently doing, how will your life be in 10 years?” ACTION: Answer the question above. Honestly.