I feel like I grew and learned the most about myself this semester. I had to deal with a lot of my best friends leaving (both by choice and by force), juggling a new combination of school, fraternity, and work, financial hardships, family worries back home...stuff I never thought about dealing with freshman or sophomore year. With that said, I'll end 2009 with a few lessons learned:
There's always going to be something in your inbox. Even when you die, you have a funeral and will to be arranged. Take a second every once in while for yourself and don't get caught up so much in being busy for the sake of being busy.
Money comes and goes. Opportunities appear once for a few fleeting seconds and disappear. Value opportunities over expenses.
The simplest answer is the best one.
It's not what you think it is, scoring points and settling the score in relationships to make yourself better than someone....in the end, right is right.
Sometimes, you gotta let people make their own mistakes.
You can't become phenomenal at something overnight...passion and true accomplishment is something only achieved if you work at it every day: think it, live it, breathe it.
"You must have complete determination. The worst opponent you can come across is one whose aim has become an obsession."
-Bruce Lee
Act first, think later.
Much like a computer, you run slower, less efficiently and have more problems when you allow unnecessary influences into your system. Even if it's small, you're wasting your time and energy when you allow stress and time-dumps into your life. Get rid of them.
There's no cure like karaoke!
The way you feel is not a direct result of what happens to you, but rather of your interpretation of it. Nobody can MAKE you feel sad, MAKE you feel angry, frustrated, or upset...it's all in your head.
Image is everything. (almost)
One step in the wrong direction is two steps away from the right direction. Become a better person every day, even in the smallest ways.
Reality has a funny way of making itself less of a big deal than you make it out to be.
"Flow in the living moment....be like water."
-Bruce Lee
Help yourself first, then worry about other people. It's not called being selfish; it's called being responsible.
EXERCISE. The human body is an amazing machine....and then again, it isn't. Tearing your muscle fibers sounds like a good way to make yourself weak and injured....but it's actually how your body gets stronger. Sleeping more to get more energy tends to work against you.
On that note, eat healthier! High-performance food results in a high-performance body and mind.
An excuse is a short-term solution, long-term problem.
Time without focus is valueless. Value focus over time.
Poker's not so much a game of what you have, but more so what you can make your opponent think you have.
"I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody."
-Bill Cosby
"Use only that which works, and take it from any place you can find it."
-Bruce Lee
Respect yourself, and value your own time more.
Your real friends aren't what they say they are, but instead, what they show they are.
You are what you think.
Nice knowing you 2009! Bring on 2010!!!
