16 Life Lessons To Live By

1. Start a friendship first then the relationship.
2. Treat people how you want to be treated.
3. There’s a special power in responding and not reacting in life.
4. Anyone that comes on strong sexually in the beginning of a relationship isn’t relationship material.
5. Health is more important than I thought and trying to get it on track at 46 is more difficult than if I was 26. Haha
6. When someone shows you who they are the first time believe them. Don’t wait for them to give you a second and third viewing.
7. A person that cheats and lies to you doesn’t value you as a person and definitely never respected you.
8. I’m my best friend. And at times I will be all I have. I need to love my own company and if I don’t, I need to figure out why.
9. You’re never to old to switch careers or do something you love. You will never know unless you take risk.
10. Stop saying tomorrow. Today is your tomorrow. Nothing changes if all you do is think about what you need to do.
11. That person your chasing, you know, the one that lied, cheated and betrayed you? You can do so much better. You don’t believe me? Clean your side of the street and watch who appears in your life.
12. When you put your awareness and lessons into action will come wisdom. With that wisdom you can do some amazing shit.
13. Pay careful attention to the most painful challenging times in your life. There’s a hidden lesson. Sometimes you have to search for it and sometimes you have to repeat the pain to find the hidden gem.
14. Alcohol doesn’t make things easier. It won’t make your relationship more manageable. It won’t make you more confident. It won’t make you forget the shitty things you do to people. And it definitely won’t make your life better. But it will add to your problems, ruin your health, ruin friendships and relationships with the shitty choices you make while hammered.
15. Relationship hopping isn’t the answer. Sit with yourself until you know “you.” Getting your identity from someone else will set you up for misery.
16. And finally, your past is your past. Learn from it and move on. It doesn’t define you Just don’t justify shitty behavior and use your past as an excuse to be a manipulative asshole.