1. Stop texting and driving. Once and for all. Yeah but what else am I going to do when I am stuck at one of the two dozen plus traffic lights that line my commute to work and home?
3. Wake up 30 minutes earlier every day. I got that shit beat, I wake up at 0515 most every morning. 0415 when I work.
4. Quit drinking during the weekdays. I'm an adult if I wanna have a beer or few after a rough day then by heavens I'll do it! Fuck your puritanical ways.
5. Learn to meditate. I need to start doing morning yoga again. Perhaps I'll do this:
6. Send one physical letter or postcard a month. Instant replies are overrated. Indeed I send post cards to my friends out west who don't have restraining orders on me...yet.
7. Get a new plant. I sincerely want to grow my own spices out of a window box.
8. Drink more water. I do, leave me alone.
9. Work at it until you can do a hundred pushups. I did my fair share of those in the Army. I let that shit go.
10. Start a project or commitment that scares you. Continuing college and brewing beer, check.
11. Learn one parlor trick, and use it only when the time is right. Does snide sarcasm count?
12. Get rid of your CDs. Finally. Heavens YES! I am not going to unload them into a landfill though.
13. Don't buy anything for a month. Not even staples like food and gas? I don't buy shit I don't need to impress people I don't like.
14. Take a walk during the workday. That's all I do at work is walk. 14 plus miles every work day.
15. Think about the coolest thing your uncle ever did for you (and do it for your nieces and nephews). I tried and all it got me was heartache and pain. Hockey games, watching sports and action movies buying dinners all sorts of great shit I wish my uncles would have done for me and nothing.
16. Read your local alternative weekly every week. Atl is OK. I'm familiar enough, thanks.
17. Quit doing that one thing where spouse or roommate is constantly requesting change. no wife no wife problems no roommate no roommate problems.
18. Find a new place to volunteer. Bruh, I work in an ER. I give at the office so to speak, what more do you want?
19. When your family asks how your day at work went, tell them the good things that happened. We don't have those conversations. Plus no live in family, remember no wife or kids no wife or kid problems yay!
20. Go see more live music. It will energize you. It always does. Yup, you're right I'll do better.
21. Play more games. That's one of the things wrong with the world, folks always have to play games.
22. Find balance and health in your sex life. No sex life no balance and health in my sex life to find.
23. Take a class. I got that shit in spades, I'm in college bruh.
24. Do a clothing closet purge. Happens about every 4 months now.
25. Finally try to understand jazz. I get it that much more since I watched 'Treme'
26. If you know you messed up, say you're sorry. Apologizing doesn't mean that you lost the argument. It means you're an adult. I've done this in the past. People mistake this for weakness and then the shit storm really starts. I hold my ground now.
27. Compliment people. Every day. I do trouble is that now a days as a middle aged bearded tattooed fellow if you compliment someone they either thinking you are trying to pick them up or stalking in order to murder them. Neither of which I intend,I'm being sincere.
28. Set up a monthly schedule to maintain your investment goods. Condition your boots. Clean and lubricate your bike chain. I learned this in the military and again in EMS.
29. Stop drinking soda. Mostly cut out except on work days, then it's an excuse to get away from the department for 10 minutes.
30. Say "Yes" to something you wouldn't normally say "Yes" to. See what happens. See 31
31. Say "No" to something you wouldn't normally say "No" to. See what happens. I've done this in the past and continue to this day. Somethings are just out of the question.
32. Quit checking your email first thing in the morning. ESPECIALLY work email. I only check it once or twice a week max.
33. If you want to be happy, the key is practicing humility and gratitude. I'm humble and grateful and so are my friends, family though...
34. Pick a band or musician that you know you're supposed to love but never resonated with you. I'm not picky about music I listen to. Although I did do this with Peaches a few months ago and was rewarded. Thanks Marc Maron!
35. Contribute the max amount to your Roth IRA. If you don't have one yet, this is the year to open one. Bruh, I go to college and pay the rent, I'm lucky to do that.
36. Ask someone else more about who they are. Since I work one day a week I do this with co-workers once in a great while cause they think I'm new.
37. Remember, leadership doesn't make others into followers. It transforms them, too, into people who will change the world. In order to be a good leader sometimes you have to be a good follower.
38. Always have two books on your nightstand. One fiction, one non. Doing that for awhile check.
39. Become a pocket knife guy. Man, those things are useful. Doing that since I was a Boy Scout although I would like to start carrying my swiss army knife again, An old girl friend gave it to me with my name engraved on it, it's nice ya know?
40. Reach out to that one guy from high school or college whom you've been wondering how he's doing. I keep in touch with folks from the old neighborhood , Colorado, work friends and have tried to find one old Army buddy and old room mate with no success.
That's all I got time for today. thanks for reading.
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