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If you feel like you need to laugh or scream, but you are not in a place where this is appropriate, open your mouth and breathe out an entire lungful like “haaaa.” It will mitigate the feeling, and it’s barely audible.

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On Zoom meetings, you can mute yourself and just press and hold the space bar when you need to speak.

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If the nine-to-five didn’t let you run to the winery in time to be prepared for your Friday-night entertainment, don’t worry. You can transform your room-temperature wine in 10 minutes with a bucket of cold water, salt, and ice.

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I realized I’d wasted most of my life doing nothing. So I began spending every minute of my day learning something new (specialized skills, social gestures, money-saving apps…) that could help me for the rest of my life.

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Books are still the #1 source of knowledge that exists today.

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“Walk. Find something cool or useful that’s about a mile away, and go there every day. Should take you 20 minutes each way.”

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People regret things they do. They also regret the things they didn’t do. Regrets are inevitable.

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Never let success go to your head. It’s temporary. Get off your ass and do something.

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Time is short. Study and pursue something you would love to. You should not be wasting any of your time on something you don’t love doing. Do something your future self would be proud of. Study because you want to. Not because people tell you to.

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Dating is an enlivening and fulfilling experience that, even in itself, is worthy of some serious enthusiasm. Approach it like the adventure it is and allow yourself to feel the excitement of anticipation. Let go of any ‘rules’ you have surrounding that mythical perfect guy and date guys with traits you may not have considered before. Make dating a priority and, like everything else in life, you’ll soon reap the rewards of a proactive approach.