I do my best to live my life without regrets.  I love where I am at in my life so that makes it much easier.  I enjoy my job, I’m getting married in about a month and love my new extended family.  I’ve met lots of new and good friends over the past couple of years and have finally started keeping in touch with old friends.  My home is fun and relaxing, lots of work but it fits our lives so well.  Still, my fiance and I both took a long and windy road to get here and though I wouldn’t trade it for anything in the world I do wish to make life easier for those who come behind us, especially our children.  So here it is….this is some of the things I wish I had known.

1. Save your money.  I have gotten into so much financial trouble over the years by not simply having a few hundred dollars set aside for an emergency situation.  Set aside whatever you can, whenever you can and don’t touch it.

2. Take time to learn what you will not tolerate and do not compromise on this.

3. Credit is easy to ruin and hard to repair.  Bad credit will follow you for years even after you are on track.  You will need it someday.  Guard it carefully.

4. Learn to listen. I’m a natural debater, it still at times takes a lot of effort on my part to really listen, but nothing is gained from arguing and a lot is learned from understanding.

5. Everyone struggles.  Everyone.

6.  Be careful with the hearts of those you love. For someone to give you their heart is an amazing gift.  A friend, a child, a parent a lover.  You will never be trusted with anything more fragile and sacred.

7. Laugh, it doesn’t matter if no one else thinks it is funny.

8. If you do not feel complete on your own you will never feel complete with another person.  Do not ever rely on others for your confidence or happiness.  Do not blame others if you are unhappy.

9.  The time will never be just right for anything.  You will never have enough money, you will never be thin enough, you will never have the extra time.  Do it now, whatever it is.

10.  Life may seem long, but at the end it always feels too short.

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