Play up your strengths. What are your strengths? What are you really good at or love doing?

13, 17, 21

Character, Education & Self-Reliance   Sports, Health, Safety & Appearance   Arts, Literature & Self Expression   Relationships & Career  

The bull-sh*t never ends. Dealing with the bull-sh*t IS your job. If you think you’ll ever reach a “post-bullsh*t stage in your life, you’re wrong.

12, 15, 19, 21

Family & Home   Character, Education & Self-Reliance   Finances   Emotional Development & Mental Health   Social Justice, Civics & Humanitarianism   Relationships & Career  

Put your purse, (wallet,bag, phone, or shoe) in the backseat with the baby. Unattended babies die every day and it’s my worst nightmare.

Infant-3, 21

Family & Home  

Read “Lighter” by Yung Pueblo. Read it every year.

17, 19, 21

Arts, Literature & Self Expression   Emotional Development & Mental Health  

A simple trick to calm your nerves: Name 5 things you can hear right now.

5-15

Emotional Development & Mental Health  

Self-care is active not passive. (Zoning-out on the couch or sleeping all day isn’t self-care.)

13, 15

Emotional Development & Mental Health