My 26 Rules for Turning 26
1 Your success in life can be measured by the number of conversations you finish with I love you. ❤️
2 Use the airport system like the subway system. ✈️
3 If in a short period of time you can significantly improve someone else's life. Do it. 🙌
4 Eat 1.3g of protein per lb of body weight.
5 Friends don't need to be made in person and borders don't matter. It's way easier than you think to get people to move. And for the right people fighting for immigration is totally worth it. 👫✨
6 Your supply of love is like a jug that as you pour from it, it gets bigger. Love is like fire flowing from one candle to another without diminishing the original flame. 💧 ❤️ 🔥
7 If something is cool but it takes 2 hours to drive there, always take the drive. 🚘
8 If choosing between 8 hours of sleep and no workout and 6 hours of sleep and a workout, always pick the workout. 🏋️♀️
9 Your entire life can be changed in 30 days. Look for the invitations to do something crazy and always say yes.
10 Go Hard- If something epic seems impossible or too much work, CHOOSE to do it, even when knowing the effort put in will surpass the value of the final reward. The more frequently you Go Hard the easier it is to do it next time and the less thinking and energy it requires to just go. Building yourself up through these challenges is the biggest reward. 💪
11 Pick good hearted friends above all. 🦁
12 You earn the right to do whatever you want in life by creating value and contributing to the world. If you do that at scale you will make a ton of money.
13 Get to the point where money does not govern your decision making as soon as possible.
14 If you buy an item of clothing and you wear it every day for the next week go back to the store immediately, buy 3 more of the exact same item and store under your bed just in case they stop production of it in a year. 👖
15 Find an excuse to spend 1 hour outside every day - long runs and phone calls while walking are great ways to do this. ☀️
16 Seek people younger than you that are hungry to learn and show potential, go out of your way to find a way to help them.
17 Practice Mudita - in Tibetan meaning the feeling of joy for the well being of others.
18 If you or another persons says something genuinely nice about a person that is not there, always pull your phone out and text them the nice thing said on the spot. 📱
19 The #1 hack for self improvement is to live with people who want to self improve in the same ways and are as or more motivated than you are. 👫💪
20 If you find a product you LOVE ask yourself how was this made? Who made this? Then find that person and seek to be their friend. You are likely to really love them too. 👨💻
21 Within any human run system there is always a way of circumnavigating an obstacle finding the person at the top of the governance structure and getting them to give you a special exception. 🧗🏻♂️
22 People you admire are likely to become your friend longterm if you offer to hit a gym session together vs asking for a selfie. A selfie is worthless, a friendship is priceless.
23 Your imagination will rarely succeed in coming up with a life as wonderful as those lived by some real, very lucky people. Find the people who's lives you want yours to look like and do everything in your power to level up to their place. ✨
24 If meditation is hard for you, instead go on a long run (3-7 miles) and spend the entire time visualizing the person you want to be and life you want to live.
25 If you are ever walking alone or having trouble falling asleep at night make it a habit to talk to the universe/god. Also make it a habit in these conversations to always list the people and things you are grateful for. If you do this right you will find that you run out of time to ask for things because you won't be able to stop listing things you are grateful for. This exercise is a magic ritual for happiness.
26 Above all, be the person you needed most when you were growing up. Oh, and also, call your mom.
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Extra 27 Social media is empty calories of human connection in the same way that a donut is empty nutritional calories- you feel it is satiating in the moment, but that feeling is fake. 🍩
Extra 28 Turn on the "Child Safety Lock" on the Screen Time feature on your iPhone and Mac- and limit social media apps and distracting websites to 3 minutes each, give the password to your friends but make sure you don't know it. That way you have to ask them to unlock access to more than 3 minutes a day. ⏳
