-Work to live, not live to work. -Time is your most valuable and most finite resource. Don't waste it on working 24x7 for companies who will take advantage of

-Work to live, not live to work. -Time is your most valuable and most finite resource. Don't waste it on working 24x7 for companies who will take advantage of your desire to do so. -Ask yourself if what you're doing will matter to anyone in 10 years, 5 years, tomorrow. Especially in a corporate environment. -Never sacrifice friends or family for work. There will always be work; you will lose (in some way, drifting or death) persons, and regret the couldas. -There's always a shiny new gadget, and they repeat every decade or so. -Set aside the computer/smartphone and do something without it a couple of hours a day. Woodworking. Cooking. Trainsets or scale models. -Exercise a couple of hours a day. And finally: -Never, ever move to Des Moines. Unless you're an actuary.