It’s about time you got a little more comfortable with yourself to be more comfortable being yourself around others.

Some of your relationships lost during the pandemic separations may not be worth trying to put back together.

You’re not an old dog who can’t learn a new trick. You’re an older person unwilling to sacrifice time now you wish you sacrificed at a younger age.

Set up more stories of how you failed and what you learned about yourself than how you overcame with little effort to oversell a positive.

Survivorship bias is defined as “the logical error of concentrating on the people or things that ‘survived’ some process and inadvertently overlooking those that did not work because of their lack of visibility.” The purpose of this podcast episode is to take your focus off what those considered winners did to win but on the things the losers may or may not have done not to.

As you mature in knowing yourself, you’ll learn more about what you do and do not care for. It would be best to care more about how you feel about yourself than trying to hide away those unfortunate ‘quirks’ that people may use to hold you back.

Being a human being is complicated and extremely hard. Being a human being who can interact with other human beings, especially with you, can be complicated and extremely hard. Just because a person can fit neatly into your life doesn’t make that person a horrible person.

Don't kill yourself to get a good thing going but don’t just settle for a 'good run' when things get difficult.

Where I tell you there is still virtue in 'hanging in there,' even when you're pretty sure it’s not worth the effort.

Go to the gym. Or the yoga studio. Or run up and down the block. Whatever you want to do to get yourself in better physical shape now, go get started.