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20 Things I Should Have Known at 20
1. The world is trying to keep you stupid. From bank fees to interest rates to miracle diets, people who are not educated are easier to get money from and easier to lead. Educate yourself as much as possible for wealth, independence, and happiness.
2. Do not have faith in institutions to educate you. By the time they build the curriculum, it’s likely that the system is outdated– sometimes utterly broken. You both learn and get respect from people worth getting it from by leading and doing, not by following.
3. Read as much as you can. Learn to speed read with high retention. Emerson Spartz taught me this while I was at a Summit Series event. If he reads 2-3 books a week, you can read one.
4. Connect with everyone, all the time. Be genuine about it. Learn to find something you like in each person, and then speak to that thing.
5. Don’t waste time being shy. Shyness is the belief that your emotions should be the arbitrators of your decision making process when the opposite is actually true.
6. If you feel weird about something during a relationship, that’s usually what you end up breaking up over.
7. Have as much contact as possible with older people. Personally, I met people at Podcamps. My friend Greg, at the age of 13, met his first future employer sitting next to him on a plane. The reason this is so valuable is because people your age don’t usually have the decision-making ability to help you very much. Also they know almost everything you will learn later, so ask them.
8. Find people that are cooler than you and hang out with them too. This and the corollary are both important: “don’t attempt to be average inside your group. Continuously attempt to be cooler than them (by doing cooler things, being more laid back, accepting, ambitious, etc.).”
9. You will become more conservative over time. This is just a fact. Those you surround yourself with create a kind of “bubble” that pushes you to support the status quo. For this reason, you need to do your craziest stuff NOW. Later on, you’ll become too afraid. Trust me.
10. Reduce all expenses as much as possible. I mean it. This creates a safety net that will allow you to do the crazier shit I mentioned above.
11. Instead of getting status through objects (which provide only temporary boosts), do it through experiences. In other words, a trip to Paris is a better choice than a new wardrobe. Studies show this also boosts happiness.
12. While you are living on the cheap, solve the money problem. Use the internet, because it’s like a cool little machine that helps you do your bidding. If you are currently living paycheck to paycheck, extend that to three weeks instead of two. Then, as you get better, you can think a month ahead, then three months, then six, and finally a year ahead. (The goal is to get to a point where you are thinking 5 years ahead.)
13. Learn to program.
14. Get a six-pack (or get thin, whatever your goal is) while you are young. Your hormones are in a better place to help you do this at a younger age. Don’t waste this opportunity, trust me.
15. Learn to cook. This will make everything much easier and it turns food from a chore + expensive habit into a pleasant + frugal one. I’m a big Jamie Oliver fan, but whatever you like is fine.
16. Sleep well. This and cooking will help with the six pack. If you think “I can sleep when I’m dead” or “I have too much to do to sleep,” I have news for you: you are INEFFICIENT, and sleep deprivation isn’t helping.
17. Get a reminder app for everything. Do not trust your own brain for your memory. Do not trust it for what you “feel like” you should be doing. Trust only the reminder app. I use RE.minder and Action Method.
18. Choose something huge to do, as well as allowing the waves of opportunity to help you along. If you don’t set goals, some stuff may happen, but if you do choose, lots more will.
19. Get known for one thing. Spend like 5 years doing it instead of flopping around all over the place. If you want to shift afterwards, go ahead. Like I said, choose something.
20. Don’t try to “fix” anyone. Instead, look for someone who isn’t broken.
(Source: inoveryourhead.net)
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Browsing thru these pics makes me wanna cry and automatically rewind our Puerto Galera getaway a year ago.
I miss you guys. </3
Okaaay.. Let these set of photos do the story telling.
Filed under: The reason behind my 3-day ensaladang talong diet
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I seriously can’t articulate the exact words to describe my relationship with Bryan. I keep on trying to look back how things were prior to all these good times and not so good times with him but still, I can’t dig the exact statement to describe everything. Ah well, most of the time, his purpose is to serve as my ultimate shock absorber, when things are horrible in the office or everywhere, I just text or call him to share all my rants and ramblings then after his few words I am acting like the happiest kid in town wearing the biggest smile on my face. At times like this, I start to wonder if I am having psychological problem because few minutes later I am smiling because of something he said.
Damn it, what’s wrong with me? “Bipolar kiddo” as Bryan said.
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Paulit-ulit kong sinasabi sa sarili ko na titigil na ko sa pagbibilang ng edad kapag nag-bente singko na ko. At nalalapit na ang araw na yun, okay, OA lang ako, sa August pa naman ang 25th bday ko tsong pero dahil bored ako ngayon sa opisina ay gagawa ako ng entry tungkol sa kashetang ‘to.
Nung nasa edad bente ako, akala ko ay tamang edad na ang bente singko sa pag-aasawa, but I was wrong, so wrong. Well, sa kaso ko pakiramdam ko, hindi pa tamang edad yun. Nagbasa-basa ko ng ilang blog at research sa internet tungkol sa marrying age ng kababaihan, Ngayon, hindi na pala masyado uso ang babaeng nag-aasawa ng edad bente singko pababa, karamihan daw ng babaeng nasa corporate world na nasa matinong relasyon sa edad na bente singko e edad 29-30 ang target date ng pag-aasawa. Okay, napaisip ako, make sense nga naman ang mga nabasa kong artikulo. Una, magastos magpakasal, Pangalawa, kailangan mag-isip ng twenty million times kung siya na ba ang tinakda ng tadhana (Pakyung dahilan), Pangatlo, mahirap mag-asawa ng walang ipon, walang sariling bahay at walang Ford Focus.
So kung susumahin ko, pagdating ng August, hindi pa ko kailangan ngumawa dahil hindi pa ko mag-aasawa, titigil lang ako sa pagbibilang ng edad, after all, numero lang naman yun. Ang dami kong sinasabi, gusto ko lang naman magparamdam sa mga kaibigan ko dito na malapit na kong magbirthday at gusto ko ng regalo. Yun lang.
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nubain:
You know that she loves you. That’s why you take her for granted. You know that she won’t let you go. Because it’s fatal, she’ll die, or maybe she won’t, but she thinks that she can’t make it without you. But she can, she can (period), she can (exclamation point).
All she does is give. And all you do is take and take. And when she has nothing more to give, all that she would want is to give, still. And all you would want is to take, still to take, never renouncing a breath, a trickle of sweat.
You know she suffers under your curse, yet you take the whip and delight in the toils of her foolishness.
Do you, young sir, know how to love?
I think not.
(Source: theimperfectgal)
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Hindi sakin issue ang makakita ng magjowang naglalampungan sa jeep, bus o kahit ano pang pampublikong sasakyan, hanggang kaninang umaga, bigla ko na lang naisip na Pwe! Nakakaumay pala.
Hindi ako nagpapakahipokrita o ano pa man, paminsan-minsan ay pa-sweet din naman ako kay B pero limitado ang galawan, hindi yung katulad nung bwaka nang inang magsyota na akala mo sumakay ng jeep at kinalimutan na ang ibang taong nasa paligid. Ultimo bayad e hindi inaabot dahil busy si lalake sa pag-alalay sa ulo ni babae na nakasandal sa hindi naman kalakihan na chest with matching kiss pa sa parteng leeg. E pakyu po! Gusto kong bumaba ng sinasakyan ko kanina kaso naisip ko, sayang naman ang Php15.50 na pasahe kung bababa ako, buti na lang at hindi trapik kanina, pero nagtulugtulugan na lang ako sa sobrang asiwa ng pakiramdam ko sakanila. Pusta ko e maging ang ibang pasahero ay ganun din, nagpatay malisya na lang sa lantaran na PDA nung dalawang magsyota. Hula ko e monthsary nila o kaya naman matagal silang hindi nagkita, cute sana tingnan na makakita ng dalawang taong nagmamahalan pero hindi ko talaga madigs na kung bakit kailangan sa jeep maglandian. OO na, putangina! Alam na naming mahal na mahal niyo ang isa’t isa. Gets na gets namin sa body language niyo. Ano ba naman yung ipagpaliban niyo muna ang paghaharutan niyo sa jeep at bumaba sa pinakamalapit na motel at doon ituloy ang romansahan. Opinyon ko lamang.
