Taking care of your health and continuing your education should be a high priority. Good health enables you to enjoy life and provides you the energy to do great work. If one day someone gives you a baby unicorn as gift, you would probably provide this beautiful, one of a kind creature the best nutrient and care. Or if you are a car enthusiast and someone gifted you a rare supercar, you would give it a good wash and perform all the required maintenance. Someone else who is rare, one of a kind and deserving of love and care is you. To get the most out of life, stay in optimal health. To accomplish that eat plenty of nutritious vegetables, get sufficient quality sleep, spend time outdoors and exercise to keep your body healthy.
After ensuring good health, next invest your time to increase your abilities and knowledge. Knowledge and skill empower you to make good decisions and ability to help others. Have a beginner’s mindset and continue to seek improvemenst. There are many ways to sharpen your skills. You can go to college and take classes. Communities colleges offers a wide variety of courses for reasonable price. In this new Internet era, there are plenty of other opportunities to learn. Coursera and Udemy are good places to learn online. Many traditional university such as University of Arizona and Arizona State offer many online courses and degrees. You can also learn and teach yourself from highly rated and recommended books. Many of these books are likely in the shelves of your public library and available for free. Even if it’s not available at the library, books are usually priced reasonably and accessible to most people. You can attend meetup and conferences or watch recordings of conferences on YouTube. Another great way to improve and reinforce what you’ve mastered is to teach what you know to others. Teaching forces you to completely understand the material and uncover gaps in some areas.
When you have good health and a well educated mind, you can take on any challenge and opportunity that will comes your way. You will be able analyze this complex world and see opportunities and solutions.