31 Things to Remember:

1. Inertia is the strongest force in the universe. Actively seek renewal or succumb to it. Keep learning, keep expanding, keep playing the infinite game. You have more to give than you can possibly imagine.

2. Identity is plastic. Shape it with action, even when you don't believe yourself yet.

3. Be forgiving of your past self and generous to your future self. You're on the same team.

4. Follow the romantic scent (Steve Jobs). You've got to trust yourself on what that means. But don't lose your sense of smell.

5. Don't be the best. Be the only (Kevin Kelly); The race is long and in the end, it’s only with yourself (Mary Schmich).

6. Inspiration is on the other side of that door: beginning.

7. Do One Thing at a Time. Attention is the only thing we have.

8. Take a walk (evergreen—especially at golden hour).

9. Slow down around green things. They have much to say.

10. Proximity rules in relationships. Almost all relationships require proximity and intention to keep growing. There are exceptions, but they are much rarer than you think.

11. You are who you spend time with. This is even more true than you believe it is.

12. Long-term friends multiply life's riches.

13. There is no one so charming as a curious old person.

14. Charisma is much less about you than how you make others feel about themselves.

15. Everyone has something to offer[4]. Search for the thing that makes their eyes light up. If you're bored with someone, it's because you haven't asked the right question (Matt Mullenweg).

16. When you have bad news, call. Better yet, tell them in person.

17. Find friends who can tell you the thing you don't want to hear—especially when it's explicitly against their interest. That is true friendly love, and they're the only ones in the world who can do it.

18. With others: there is a time for fixing. But first, they just need you to be there.

19. There is no gift like agency. Make people feel like things are possible. Pull creative people forward.

20. The true friend of time is integrity. Among all things that compound, integrity is the most underrated and perhaps the most scarce.

21. Logic doesn't scale, but stories do.

22. Most great things involve paradox. Hold both sides at once. Sit with them. Enjoy the mess. This is life.

23. Courtesy and kindness cost nothing, except for the time it takes to shift your attention away from yourself.

24. When you worship yourself the world fades out. Don't succumb to the void—get out from under yourself. How? Simply bear witness to another: try to see them a bit more clearly. Better yet: ask how you might serve them. The cage of the mind is broken by acts of service.

25. You know less than you think you do. Blindspots abound. This is water.

26. Focus on the fundamentals. Not easy, but simple.

27. Meaning is made. The ingredients are all around you, but they're just that—so stop waiting and choose meaning.

28. It all comes down to love and gratitude. Happiness is love, full stop (Harvard Grant Study).

29. Tomorrow isn't real. Life is just a bunch of todays (Janis Joplin).

30. This is the good part. It's all the good part.

31. Time is not your adversary. You do not need more time: time needs more of you (David Whyte).

I've shared these before, so please forgive me. But I was re-reading (I wrote for myself, after all), and figured others who missed them might appreciate them. x.com/jacksondahl/status/18440...