Current POA
1. Stay in current job until 2025.
2. Focus on what I get out of it.
3. Don't need to go flat out.
4. Look after my body.
5. Keep investing
6. Retire.
Underrated life advice: If you want more people in your corner, give them reasons to be there. Make yourself easy to root for. Great attitude. Zero drama. Gracious. Dependable. Do the extra little bit everyone skips. Always follow through. Never make people regret helping you.
Overton proposed that window frames the range of policies that a politician may recommend without appearing too extreme given the climate of public opinion at that time. https://t.co/9ic4koS2Sm
Once you've heard of the Overton Window you can't unsee it. Some issues pass through it so quickly you can tick off the stages as the weeks go by. Others agonisingly slowly. Thanks to James Overton.
@realfrugalmogul Have you read The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz? We all have rules that we apply based on our personal history but we can set about creating our own. Seems like you are creating your new rule on what productivity is.
@GuruAnaerobic There is a beautiful book about a wolf hunter in Massachusetts and fox tracker in London, Happiness by Aminatta Forma. I think you might enjoy it.
@ThinkAppraiser Planning your bigger picture goals and writing them down is so helpful. I came to this late and have found it incredible in getting to goals more quickly. Or moving away from them - but doing so consciously. In my 20's I just turned up, tried hard and hoped for the best.
@TheMattViera Exactly, so her body is well enough to have children if the opportunity happens. Working long hours it's easy to be 'too tired to exercise'.
One of the best gifts I was ever given.
When I was twenty-one years old, fresh out of college and about to start my first job, my father gave me a handwritten list of instructions.
Here are my dad’s rules for success:
> Do at least 10% more than you are asked.
> Never, ever, to anybody, present as fact, opinions on things you don’t know. Take great care and discipline.
> Be courteous and considerate always— up and down.
> Don’t knock, don’t complain—stick to constructive, serious criticism.
> Don’t be afraid to make decisions when you have the facts on which to make them.
> Quantify where possible.
> Be open-minded but skeptical.
> Be prompt.
I’ve passed these same rules on to my own children and the original copy hangs next to my bathroom mirror.
Christmas was big this year. There were Christmas movies, Christmas songs, Christmas parties, Christmas jumpers, Christmas food, Christmas trees, Christmas lights, Christmas markets. Christmas Nativity plays, Christmas church services. Christmas was celebrated.