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Links & Resources https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/HJeD6XbMGEfcrx3mD/100-ways-to-live-better https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25513713#25516108 - Things you’re allowed to do Unsorted identify and destroy small-return bullshit; shut off anything that’s noisier than it is useful; make brutally fast decisions about what I don’t need to be doing; avoid anything that feels like fake sincerity (esp. where it may touch money); demand personal focus on making good things; put a handful of real people near the center of everything....

Liquidate all bad debt and become debt-free. Start paying off all loans and credit card debts now. If you’re in a hole, stop digging and get out. Debt reduces your monthly cash flow. When you have payments, you lose control of your income. The bank owns a part of it, and you are thus a slave to them. Once you are debt-free, you regain control of your most powerful wealth-building tool, which is your income....

Tips https://www.reddit.com/r/ADHD/comments/ioi1my/i_went_through_700_reddit_comments_and_collected/ https://tim.blog/2013/11/03/productivity-hacks/ Organizing life “I’m ADHD and Org-mode has majorly improved my capacity to organise my life, because it has let me create a system that integrates most things I do in a way that works for me and my quirks.” https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28703944 People Anything to do with friends and birthdays go in contacts.org, so that I can keep an eye on how much I see people....

Wisdom “You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backward. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something – your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.” -Steve Jobs How to make actionable goals Identify goal groups, according to Maslows Hierarchy of needs...

Music Listen to “Da Funk” daft punk with good hedphones Put on Good Mood Playlist Watch david byrne, stop making sense vid Drugs Smoke a J Food Eat mandarin oranges Activities space rub the dogs

Goal other person feeling heard and understood by you. they know that you’ll be there for them with a listening ear and you’re willing to help if they are looking for any Instead of saying “You should ______”, try saying “What’s worked for me in the past is ______” People who are suffering aren’t always inclined to the most charitable interpretation of what you say. ask up-front whether they just needed to vent or if they wanted advice....

Observations: things that are objectively observable Feelings: your feelings about them Needs: the needs you want met Requests: a proposal as to how you want your needs met

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