#bye 2017

Hi

No resolutions. No concrete plans. No detailed lists. You know what is important. You know you have to put in the work. You know if you're doing something consistently for a few months, the benefits that you will reap will be for years.

I know you want to change a lot of habits. Maybe 90% of your current lifestyle. But let's pick one. One a month. They say if you do something for 21 days it becomes a habit. I give you 30 days. Make it a good one. Work on one habit at a time. At the end of the year you will have improved in 12 areas and that's something.

I know you don't understand much about physics or remember any of it from school but remember gravity? How you studied that every object and person in the universe is attracted to each other by some gravitational force. You are attached by a force to everything you want and everything you don't want. Think and say things you want to give them more power. Focus more on the things you desire than the things that scare you. Strengthen the force of the things and people you want in your life. It's that simple. I get that it's hard to believe in self help books but believing in physics is a lot easier, no?

Math. Let's talk about simple math. You have limited time and energy. For the longest time you have devoted so much of it to people and for that I'm proud of you. All those hours you spent making cards as a child and all those hours you spent listening to people - best friends and strangers - cry. I am glad you were that person. But now I need to be more aware of your own needs. The more you give the more is deducted out of the total time and energy you have. Love may be infinite but your personal time and energy aren't.

Don't buy more than 3 books a month because you never end up reading them. Don't feel intimidated by the plans your friends have for after graduation. Use your typewriter more often. Learn Korean. It's okay if it won't be as useful as French in the Global context.

And in case you mess up, in case situations I cannot anticipate now arise in the future, don't wait until 2019. Don't wait until a new year or a new month. Begin again. Rectify your existing plan. Take corrective action. Begin again. It's okay.

Love Always,