25 Short Pieces of Advice to Help You Thrive in 2025

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It’s simple.

In this article, I’ll share 25 brief pieces of advice to help you rock this year—and many years to come. (In no particular order, of course.)

Sometimes advice doesn’t need a full article—and just a few sentences are enough to get the gears turning in your mind.

I hope it helps.

• Don’t focus on the minutia—instead, focus on building the discipline and consistency that makes all the little details irrelevant.
• Spending 5 minutes with an expert will teach you more than 5 months with a pretender. Find a true expert—which, sadly, is harder than it sounds—and learn from them. (Hell, just look at football/soccer: One sentence from a true expert will say more than an hour with all those “pundits.”)
• If you complain about your problems—yet keep doing the same things—your future is etched in stone. Until you do everything you can to improve a situation, avoid complaining. You’ll realize you have fewer things to complain about and things improve quickly. (What’s the alternative? Give a half-assed effort and then moan like crazy? No thanks.)
• Only be friends with people who want to be friends with you. If they don’t try to make an effort to reciprocate (ex. they’re always busy, they never want to chat…