Steps To Your Better You - RETIRE

While you should be working as hard as possible to not bring yourself an early death, be vary aware that you are not going to escape that final fate.

You have more confidence when you feel good about the way you look and present yourself. It may be cliché to say, but when you think you look good, you always feel better.

One of the best ways to shake yourself out of a funk is to get a quick win. One of the ways to get a quick win is to make simple plan that is easy to complete to check off the activities.

For every 20 minutes of working in front of a screen, look at a spot 20 feet away for 20 seconds. This program will help you reduce eye strain from long screen exposure and is easy to remember (or at least program reminders to keep you on task).

Life is about developing a legacy that will last beyond your living years, not trying to stretch the living years to an unnatural extension.

Trying to fit a role may mean doing things you would not normally do. Make sure that a part of your motivation is based on your wanting to do the things.

You will often find your extra effort for others wasted and not valued or appreciated. Don't expect a magic moment of clarity to spur you one, but don't just stop doing the extra either

You have the right to give up on bad books, boring TV shows, dumb ideas, and people who do nothing positive for you.

There are some activities you are not meant to improve upon because there are some activities you are not meant to do because they get in the way of the activities you are supposed to work on to improve.

Regular people think their regular lives do not translate to great stories to tell others. This is never true. The problem is never the story itself. The problem is not taking enough time in the editing process.

Chances are, if you had a chance to see the burdens that others you know have to carry in complete pain and detail, you might not feel so bad about your own problems and find the extra motivation to eliminate with as many as possible, once and for all.

There are plenty of people in the world at large looking to leach off your personality and you personally. Even some of the people with good intentions can end up being bad for you mentally. Combat this by getting mentally tougher and making sure to keep your mind right.

When you find out a fact about a person that is entirely mundane, don’t oversell your excitement.

Even a poor attempt can be an achievement when the alternative is not to make an attempt.

Treat every object as an imposition upon your attention, because it is. A workspace is not a place for storing things. It is a place for accomplishing things.

You don’t need special training just to be there for a person. You just need some patience and the ability to really listen. 

It’s good to build resilience, but sometimes it isn’t your fault if something really gets to you.

No one can live forever, including you. So celebrate the joys of life whenever you can, and do what you can to not die.

Start with throwing one thing away, clearing one small space, or cleaning one small room. Declutter your physical space to help declutter your mind.

Call your parents when you think of them and make the time to tell your friends that you love them.

A noun, meaning, “sympathetic pity and concern for the sufferings or misfortunes of others.” Now that you know what compassion is, I ask you to go out and show the world a lot more of it.

We often believe those who do wrong are acting in the interest of purpose causing turmoil; and strife. More likely, they are just misguided, misled, or plain stupid.

There is nothing wrong with you. You have all you can to get yourself to this place you are in now. But you can’t stay here, and that means looking to what you need to do to get to ‘there.’

A 90-second message to over-explain what you should understand in just three: done is better than perfect.

Many people have trouble thinking of themselves as smart, pretty, or kind unless told by someone else. You can help them out and it cost you just a small amount of time and effort.