21. Keep it simple, subtraction > addition.
“You are not your job, you’re not how much money you have in the bank. You are not the car you drive. You’re not the contents of your wallet. You are not your fucking khakis. You are the all singing, all dancing crap of the world.” — Tyler Durden
22. I had the honour of being Best Man this year to my oldest & wisest friend, a personal first. I see him the least frequent out of any of my social circle and I don’t use Facebook.
True friends are there whenever/wherever for whatever, regardless of when you last ‘liked’ their status update.
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23. Life is a team sport. Choose your team members wisely, you guys!
24. Do more, less. Slow down & read Carl Honoré’s ‘In Praise of Slowness’.
25. “Whether you think you can, or you think you can’t — you’re right.” — Henry Ford
26. If there’s one standout thing I’ve learnt this year, it’s that your memories are one of the most (if not the most) precious things you have.
A picture is worth a thousand words. Take more pictures.
27. Share your war stories — everyone has battle scars.
28. Meditate…
“Our minds, especially when we don’t maintain them, can be a pretty scary place.” — Russell Simmons
29. Take things seriously, but not too seriously. Enough other people will do that for you.
30. Life is long if you know how to use it.
“It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it. Life is long enough, and a sufficiently generous amount has been given to us for the highest achievements if it were all well invested.
But when it is wasted in heedless luxury and spent on no good activity, we are forced at last by death’s final constraint to realise that it has passed away before we knew it was passing.
So it is: we are not given a short life but we make it short, and we are not ill-supplied but wasteful of it… Life is long if you know how to use it.”
— Seneca
Until next year…
