1. Babies/kids are awesome, way cooler than I ever thought before I had one.
  2. You can accomplish a lot by focusing on one thing at a time.
  3. Life is one long developmental arc and you should always be improving and learning from your mistakes.
  4. I feel stronger, faster, and more fit now than I did at 26.
  5. 36 years old is a kid to someone who is 60. We’re just getting started.
  6. Time is the most important thing – use money to buy convenience and to save time.
  7. Focusing on the process/daily routine/system is way more valuable than thinking about some goal.
  8. Focus is hard in a world of abundance of everything.  Avoiding distraction is a superpower.
  9. Health is the foundation of everything else good in life.  Optimize for energy.
  10. Your gut feeling is right most of the time.
  11. Spend time with the people who want to spend time with you.
  12. The feeling you get around anything, including people, is energy.  Follow good energy and avoid negative energy.
  13. Life is a series of tough decisions.  Making a tough decision is better than sitting on the fence forever.
  14. 36 is old enough to be a great leader but young enough to be ambitious.  It’s a golden age of life.
  15. Confidence comes from doing things and proving to yourself that you can do them.
  16. Your mind finds what it is already looking for. Ensure you look for the right things.
  17. What you do with your life is a function of how you think and what you expect your life to be.  This changes over time.
  18. There has never been more opportunity in human history than today, in February, 2025.
  19. Your experiences shape who you are.  The more experiences you have, the more perspective you gain.  Try everything you’re interested in at least once.
  20. Service beyond yourself is vital in life.  This means being a reliable leader, father, partner, brother, and friend.
  21. Creating is where humans learn, gain satisfaction, and see what happens.  Create often.  Build often.
  22. Starting is the hardest part of almost everything.  Start now.
  23. What you build matters more than what you could have built.
  24. Your choices determine your trajectory.  Make good decisions and good choices.
  25. Be useful to society and to those around you.  Help people flourish to the extent that you can.
  26. You learn what is possible from the people around you and the people you pay attention to.
  27. Take advantage of opportunities when they are there.
  28. Do the things in life that you want to do.
  29. All we have is our ability to communicate.  Be honest about what you think and how you feel.
  30. Your mind is almost always the limiting factor to everything you do.
  31. Money is only useful if you use it to be so.
  32. The closer you align with nature and how we evolved, the happier, more satisfied you tend to be.
  33. You create and shape the future of your life, and of your family.
  34. Gratitude is something you must reflect on daily.
  35. It’s not what happens to you, it’s what happens inside you.
  36. Life is completely unpredictable, but you can shape your daily actions that influence the outcome of your life.

Lastly, it’s incredible to see how useful and how disruptive AI is.  We literally have god-like engines at our fingertips for free that can answer so many questions, and teach us so many things.  As mind blowing as that is, it is even more mind blowing that most people have no idea it even exists (yet).  What an incredible time to be alive.

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I write for fun, I travel for fun, and I enjoy learning. I hate sugar-coating things. Understand the world in reality, not by dogma. Question everything.
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