10 Life Lessons

I received this in a business newsletter. I see these often, well I sorta look for them I suppose to kind act like a mental checklist on "How to be an adult"

I added some wisdom too.

10 Life Lessons

by Ryan Allis

• Surround yourself with people you like and admire. You are who you surround yourself with. It pays to choose the people you surround yourself with carefully. (Hanging out with smart people will make you smart over time, true story. Absorb all their smartness)
• Put positive thoughts into your head. The internal message that you tell yourself over and over becomes reality. Thoughts become things. Don't be insecure. Be confident. YOU ARE AMAZING! You are all here because you are brilliant. Life is a wonderful opportunity. Believe in your power to do good. (The one I have been repeating all day today:" If you build it, they will come." Cheezy, I know, but whatever, I'm tryin')
• Take time to think about and write down your goals and frame them!!! Set bigger goals than you think are actually possible to achieve and try to hit about 50% of them. If you're hitting more than 50% of your goals, they're not ambitious enough! (Framing them might be kinda dumb, but definitely write them down, even daily goals. I find that if I write down things I wanna see, I usually finish the list by the end of the week.)
• Laughter is the best medicine for stress. Laugh at yourself often. Find what is funny in whatever situation you're in.
• Don't worry about what other people think about you. Just be yourself

It took me a long time to not judge myself if someone else's eyes

Sally Field

• Travel the world at every opportunity you get. Take an interest in what's going on in the world. Know about the tremendous opportunities in Asia, Africa, Central America, and South America
• Build authentic relationships in which you give. Don't build fake relationships.
• Find something you're passionate about that you love doing that you enter the "flow state" when you do it, then figure out how you can create value (and maybe make money) doing that!
• Save and invest money whenever you can and never ever go into debt for something you don't need. Make your money work for you.
• Spend more hours reading than you do watching TV! Book recommendations: Think and Grow Rich, Rich Dad Poor Dad, and How to Win Friends and Influence People. (Agreed.)

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Ryan Allis is the founder of iContact, one of the world's largest email marketing companies. Starting from nothing at the age of 22, Ryan has raised over $45 million for iContact and has grown the company to attract over 1 million subscribers.
Ryan is also the author of "From Zero to 1 Million" a book on entrepreneurship published by McGraw Hill. He is also involved with two non-profits: The Hunger Campaign and Nourish International.