1. Your parents are not background characters — the clock on them is running faster than yours. That phone call you're postponing? Make it today. One day you'll have all the time in the world and nobody to give it to.
2. Sit with someone you love and talk with no phone in the room. Ten minutes of full attention is rarer in this century than a diamond, and it gives the other person something money cannot — real presence, the most generous thing you own.