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21 Simple Ways to Create an Unstoppable Life
1. Open two bank accounts, one for necessities and one so you can save for the “fun stuff” in life.
2. Do a serious spring cleaning on your whole life at least once a year. Clear old old items from your house, old ideas from your mind and old habits that no longer serve you.
3. Make a list of the ten things that make you deep-down, dancing round the living room happy.
4. Buy one cookbook that inspires you and cook your way through it over the course of a year.
5. Learn to change a car tire, even if you don’t have a car.
6. Do one thing a day that makes you laugh out loud.
7. Learn to read a paper map correctly.
8. Learn to drive a manual transmission car.
9. Learn how to make an omelet.
10. Take two minutes and dance around your kitchen at least once a week.
11. Go for a walk and simply listen to what the world really sounds like.
12. Spend 2 minutes each day appreciating the sky.
13. Learn to read a compass.
14. Learn to read a ruler.
15. Learn a foreign language.
16. Pay for a stranger’s coffee or tea.
17. Hold the door open for a stranger and smile.
18. Cut yourself some slack when you are having a really bad day.
19. Have at least one really good, sharp knife in your kitchen.
20. Learn to sew.
21. Read a poem out loud once a week.