Ask HN: What have been your best decisions in life?

Being ruthless about removing people from my life who are bringing me down, or who have a view of me that may be accurate, but is pessimistic.

Like most decisions that turned out to be good financially, it was purely by luck.

* Buying real estate... a lot of it

* Staying out of the stock market until after 2009... then leveraging and buying a lot of stocks

* Playing inverse volatility until 2017... missed out on the VIX termination event in Feb 2018

Some things that didn’t turn out well:

* Crappy career. Had to quit after many years of training to get there due to external pressures. Fortunately the above compensated many times over.

Life isn’t perfect, but I’m lucky to be relatively healthy and living in a safe part of the world.

Ditching my smartphone.

1. Working out regularly (3 times a week lifting weights), eating healthy, and playing team sports (co-ed soccer and volleyball). In my 30s, and still in the best shape I have ever been.

There was a time when I didn't work out regularly, and I have to say that a 'weak' body affects you in many way down the road. Trying to 'save time' by skipping working out, or not doing physical activities is counter productive. Similar to skipping sleep because you don't have time. It destroys your health in many ways.

2. Moving to the US as an exchange student (in high school), and living for a year with an american family that I had never met before.

3. Studying Computer Science

Moving to a different country