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Lifting, learning to count calories, healthy habits in general.
Staying out of the sun.
Moving out of the rust belt.
In preparation for moving, moving back in with my parents and getting close with them after a period of about a half decade of taking my family for granted.
1. Traveling and living overseas for over half of my twenties. Gave me a world and multi-cultural perspective.
2. Getting emotional healing from an abusive childhood. Gave me confidence to pursue life from a place of healing and peace.
3. Getting married to my wife who I share everything with, including being work partners.
4. Having children which has opened up a whole new aspect of wonder, curiosity and adventure.
Ditching my smartphone.
* My parents leaving Romania for the US (on the Greencard lottery) when I was 10. * Leaving a large company to work on a product I believed in (Airbnb 2012). * Not paying too much attention to my peers and doing what felt right: not getting a service job as a teenager and freelance coding(even when my effective hourly rate ended up being lower than working at Subway), becoming a farmhand after working as an engineer;…
2). Sticking it out in CS undergrad when I was having a hard time with the material instead of dropping out
3). Leaving shitty jobs(though I could've left sooner at each instance) for greener pastures
4). Instead of resorting to drugs or alcohol to deal with bad times and loneliness in my life, turning to running instead and running the Marathon des Sables(and unrelatedly but subsequently finishing my pilot's license) which made me believe in myself
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.
One of mine was not worrying about what other people thought of me.