You didn't 'waste time,' you redirected yourself towards a better life, it was an inevitable step in the process of getting to the life you wanted.

If you aren’t maintaining a healthy lifestyle with discipline, you aren’t serious about your long-term ambitious goals, and you will end up like most people: get health issues, use them as an excuse to give up, say that “life happened.” Own your choices, they have consequences.

The day you stop investing in yourself is the day your anxiety makes a comeback. Keep training, learning, challenging yourself with difficult goals: it's also the secret of peace of mind.

Peace of mind reflects how close you are from living a life that aligns with your core values. Deep down, you can never lie to yourself. The right direction in life makes your anxiety evaporate and your childhood enthusiasm resurface. In doubt, don’t settle, keep looking.

Stop looking for the 'right people' in the wrong place.

Great relationships feel natural and are based on shared culture and values.

Don't change who you are to fit in a place where people are just being themselves.

Be yourself and move where you will be effortlessly accepted.

Wealth is inevitable for thoughtful risk-takers, anxiety is inevitable for overthinking excuse-makers.

You struggle to get the life you want when you look down on the simple, basic things: a healthier diet, apter exercise, sounder sleep, more challenging books, deeper conversations, treating your family and friends with more respect and care, frequent time alone to clear your mind

When you look back, the most fruitful periods of your life were when you felt a bit scared every day and weren’t sure you were doing the right thing, yet believed in a long-term vision, and went through with conviction. That’s what being on the right direction in life feels like.

Unpleasant experiences will happen. That’s life. Don’t take them personally. Don’t victimize yourself. Don’t panic or waste your energy getting angry. Focus on what you can change: move to a better place, hang out with kinder people, get better goals, become a better person.

Everyone has opportunities to turn around their lives. So much of success boils down to not being a coward when the scary, life-changing opportunity knocks at your door.

Working moderately hard over long periods of time will take you much further than getting overexcited, trading your long-term health against short-term results, and burning out.

Play the long-term game, that’s the only game that matters.

You become more eloquent once you realize no one will speak up for you.

You become financially responsible once you realize no one will back you up with no agenda.

You become physically and mentally stronger once you realize no one will stand up and fight your fights for you.

There is nothing to chase, only yourself to improve.