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65 truths

every truth so far. one per day, no exceptions.

Exercise is a mood booster. So is not exercising, in the short term.

Drink more water. This advice is free because nothing else worked.

New year, new you. The old you still has the same subscriptions.

Financial freedom is just expensive freedom with extra steps.

A penny saved is a penny that didn't solve anything.

Live within your means. Your means are not keeping up with your lifestyle.

Invest early, invest often. Also, time travel would help.

Budget for what matters. Everything matters. That's the problem.

Treat yourself. Then check your bank balance. Then lie down.

The best things in life are free. The second best things have a subscription fee.

Happy wife, happy life. Accurate, but incomplete.

Grow together or grow apart. Either way, something's growing.

Home is where the heart is. The mortgage is where everything else is.

Communication is the foundation of every relationship. So is pretending you didn't see the message.

Save for a rainy day. It's been raining for three years.

Money can't buy happiness. It can, however, rent it for quite a while.

The best investment you can make is in yourself. The returns are inconsistent and hard to liquidate.

Results speak for themselves. Loudly, and usually in a meeting you weren't invited to.

Innovation distinguishes leaders from followers. So does a corner office and a reserved parking spot.

You can't manage what you can't measure. You also can't measure most things that matter.

Keep it simple. Then explain why you kept it simple to people who wanted it complicated.

The open door policy means you can walk in. It doesn't mean anyone's listening.

Your potential is unlimited. Your PTO is not.

You're not stuck. You're just moving at a speed that looks like stuck from the outside.

Consistency is the key to success. So is luck, but that's harder to put on a poster.

Progress not perfection. Progress is also slower than you planned.

Take a break. The work will still be there. More of them, actually.

Disconnect to reconnect. Reconnect to find out what you missed while disconnecting.

Sleep is for the weak. The weak are, statistically, better rested.

Scale or fail. Or scale and then fail, which is more expensive.

Disruption is just someone else's problem reframed as your opportunity.

Be data-driven. Unless the data says something inconvenient.

Your network is your net worth. Both are smaller than you'd like.

Iterate. It means doing it again until it works or until budget runs out.

Fail fast. This is advice from people who haven't failed slowly yet.

Ship it. Then spend three months fixing what you shipped.

Move fast and break things. Then move fast away from the things you broke.

Every setback is a setup for a comeback. The setup fee is very high.

Be proactive. Then wait to be told what to do with the thing you proactively did.

Collaboration is key. The door it opens leads to another meeting.

Your time is valuable. Just not to the meeting organizer.

Meetings exist so that nobody can say they weren't told.

Passion is what they call it when they can't afford to pay you more.

It's not what you know, it's who you know. It's also what they're willing to admit they know you.

Failure is not the opposite of success. It's part of the journey. A very long part, in most cases.

Put your phone down and be present. The emails will still be there. More of them, actually.

No pain, no gain. Unless the pain is a bad back from your desk chair. That's just a loss.

Fake it till you make it. Then fake that you made it.

Give 110%. Then give an explanation of why that's mathematically impossible at your performance review.

Hard work beats talent when talent doesn't work hard. Nepotism beats both.

Work smarter, not harder. Nobody said anything about working less, though.

The early bird gets the worm. The early employee gets the 7am meeting.

There's no I in team. There's also no raise.

Today is a gift. Return policy varies.

Rome wasn't built in a day. It also wasn't built by people who had a morning standup.

Hope is the first step on the road to disappointment.

When life gives you melons, you might be dyslexic.

Every day is a second chance… to procrastinate.

You're unique, just like everyone else.

If you think you can do it, you're probably wrong.

When one door closes, another one opens. But you'll be stuck in the hallway forever.

The road to success is always under construction, so you might as well take a detour.

Why chase your dreams when you can just sleep?

You miss 100% of the naps you don't take.

Hard work often pays off after time, but laziness always pays off now.

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