10 simple ways to save yourself from messing up your life

One of the best maps I've seen for living optimally. Succinct, and many of these should be common sense. I would add one:

11. Invest a little time each week in review to keep perspective. Look back and see where your principles were applied, or not, and the consequences. Until principles like these, and others hard learned, become compasses, it's easy to become disoriented among the trees, instead of enjoying the forest. Some of the most vibrant people I know and admire, seem to have this layer of context in every action, enabling them to live with more spontaneity and less random noise.

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