Forty Lessons of Life
- Life isn’t fair, get used to it… (but it’s still good)
- When in doubt, just take the next small step.
- Life is too short to waste time hating anyone.
- Your job won’t take care of you when you are sick. Your friends and parents will. Stay in touch.
- Pay off your credit cards every month. If you can’t, then use a lower rate line of credit until you can pay them off monthly.
- You don’t have to win every argument. Agree to disagree.
- Forgive others and yourself.
- Yield.
- Save for retirement starting with your first paycheque.
- No matter how you feel, get up, dress up and show up.
- Make peace with your past so it won’t screw up the present.
- Be on time.
- Don’t compare your life to others. You have no idea what their journey is all about.
- If a relationship has to be a secret, you shouldn’t be in it.
- Everything can change in the blink of an eye. But don’t worry; God never blinks.
- Take a deep breath. It calms the mind.
- Get rid of anything that isn’t useful, beautiful or joyful.
- Whatever doesn’t kill you really does make you stronger.
- It’s never too late to have a happy childhood. But the second one is up to you and no one else.
- When it comes to going after what you love in life, don’t take no for an answer.
- Today is special; you are alive.
- Over prepare, then go with the flow.
- Pay cash and stay out of debt.
- Never assume another person’s debt.
- No one is in charge of your happiness but you.
- Frame every so-called disaster with these words: “In five years, will this matter?”
- Apologize when you screw-up.
- The best is yet to come.
- What other people think of you is none of your business.
- Time usually doesn’t heal anything, but God does.
- However good or bad a situation is, it will change.
- Don’t take yourself so seriously. No one else does.
- Believe in miracles.
- God loves you because of who God is, not because of anything you did or didn’t do.
- Envy is a waste of time.
- Growing old beats the alternative – dying young.
- Your children get only one childhood.
- All that truly matters in the end is that you loved.
- If we all threw our problems in a pile and saw everyone else’s, we’d grab ours back.
- Life is a gift.