What are some of your little tricks in life?

Try and find at least one thing to do with your day. Set a goal, getting your school report done, getting the car washed, spending extra time with the family, anything, but give yourself a goal and stick to it, so that every day you know you have accomplished something.



There are 4 keys (cut from the VIN) to every car. One for your keychain, one for your wallet, one for the house, and one for the dealer when you get work done (on a keychain with your name/phone number/car model). For less than $10 for all 4 keys new, you will never get locked out of your car or have to search for a key again.
 
Unless you have a car like mine when keys are $300 a peice ;)



One of these days I'm going to cash out my 401k and buy a spare key LOL
 
GoodnClean said:
I think the most important tip in life is something my dad taught me early on.



Don't compete with others, only with yourself. You need to be aware of what others are doing, but people who compete with others will always be behind and will never be truly successful because there's always going to be somebody better. If you take the energy and focus that you instinctively want to turn towards other people and turn it towards doing the absolute best you can possibly do in everything that you do, then you will be successful. Someone who doesn't compare themselves to others never has to sell themselves be it to a client, on a job interview, to the opposite sex, or to other people in any context, who you are and what you do will speak for itself. No need to convince anyone that they want to be associated with you, because they'll want to be already.



He was so right too, when I look at what I've accomplished in my life already and what I have yet to do in life concentrating on myself and what I'm doing and gauging my skill against what I think I could do instead of what other people are doing is what made it possible.



Try it, play a board game or poker or something like that to try and be the best you can be. Monopoly is a good game to try this with. Try and build an empire and watch what others are doing, but don't try to be better than them. Just try and be as good as you can be and top what you've done before. You'll win every time, they'll be so worried about you and trying to make the right moves around you that they can't concentrate on their own game, and you will win.
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I think that's great advice; your father is obviously a smart man!
 
It has been touched on in this thread... and is worth remembering:



"If Mama ain't happy, ain't nobody happy."



It's true. :think:



Jim
 
These 2 my father told me when I was a kid. It was his way of sharing some level of wisdom. I've actually taken a few things from it.



Everyone's sh*t stinks.



Opinions are like a$$holes, everyone's got one.



My advice is to treat people the way you would like to be treated. I know it's a hackneyed expression, but it is so true. I see to many working class and service oriented people dumped on. Not cool.



Also, make people laugh and verablize praise and credit when deserved.
 
MongooseGA said:
Condition your hair. Girls like to run their fingers through it when it's soft :D
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Werd. Girls love good smelling/soft hair (this probably applies more to the younger crowd here ;)).



If you are wearing anything with a scent, you shouldn't be able to smell it from more than a few feet away. I swear some people shower in cologne, you can smell them from an honest 15' away in a pizza place, being next to them must give you a headache.
 
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