Many people never find out what they are good at. Some never find out what they enjoy doing. #life
How you live your life tells us what you value. How you live other people’s lives tells us what you don’t value. #life
Take your time. Be focused. Work on one thing at a time. Enjoy what you do. #life #success
Be happy with yourself when you choose to learn something new. #life #success
Success doesn’t require power, money, or technology. #life #success
A to-do list and calendar are not a plan. #planning #life
Observation: People now say, “I appreciate you,” rather than “I appreciate it.” Yes, it’s more personal, but it still seems forced and fake in most cases. #life #failure #usa
Keep your expectations low. Keep your mistakes to a minimum. Keep learning and growing. Keep trying. #life #success
“It’s never a bad time to come up with a good idea.” #life #writing
How many friends are too many? How many friends are too few? #life
When you rush, you react. #life #failure
If you feel stuck, your mind is telling you to stop and relax. #life
Embrace the world and everything and everyone on it. #life #success
“Fear of the future is fear of looking into the rose flower because you love the bud.” #life #writing
“Listen to yourself, but don’t take yourself seriously.” #life #success
It’s interesting that everyone has a “Best ____ of the Year”. It’s all marketing. It’s all opinion. It’s all unimportant. #life #marketing #failure
Happiness is inside you. Of course, it’s there along with pain, fear, horror, and all of the other emotions. What you focus on is what you gain. #life
It’s a personal problem. I always want to accomplish more than I am humanly capable of each new year. Things to do. Things not to do. Things to read. Things to write. Things to program. Things to cook. Things to bake. Things to learn. Things to achieve. Luckily, I’m not human. #life
Just overheard a couple celebrating their 25 years together, 20 married. Just paid for their beers. Small things. #life
Everyone focuses on the new at the start of a new year. It’s just as important to focus on the old: the successes, the failures, and the people. #nye #life #2025
It’s as important to know what you won’t do as what you will/want to do in the new year. That’s why I have a Do Not Do List to remind myself of the things to avoid in life. If you don’t write it down, you will forget or slip into doing those items you want to avoid. #todo #tasks #life
“I don’t write life. I write fiction. Life is to be lived, not read.” #writing #life
“Live to your strengths.” #life
Envy is just a form of jealousy. Who are you jealous of? The rich, powerful, or the celebrities? Jealousy is a form of self-deprecation and degradation. You are complete as you are. You can be better, without using those you are jealous of as role models. #life
Let go of the things that don’t matter. There are no people who don’t matter. #life #success