Step 3: Turn on 2-factor authentication on these 5 accounts today:
Email (the keys to your kingdom).
Bank or financial app.
Apple ID or Google account.
Main social media account.
Cloud storage (iCloud, Drive, Dropbox).
Use an authenticator app (Google Authenticator, Authy, or Microsoft Authenticator). Not SMS, if you can avoid it.
SMS codes can be intercepted with a SIM swap.
The reason most people don't do this isn't that the tools are hidden.
It's that we've been trained to think privacy is the cost of using the internet.
It isn't. The tools are free. The process takes one weekend.
Your name on a random people-search site shouldn't reveal your home address.
I just turned 55.
And finally understand what actually matters.
Took me three decades to learn what I'm about to teach you in 5 minutes.
Here are 55 life lessons I wish someone told me at 25: