Friends are important.

Alone, broke, no prospects, and the world will swallow you up faster than you can call for another pizza.

The size of your brain is not equal to the way your life goes.

It’s how you use that brain. It’s about who you hang around. What plans you make. The actions you take.

The people you lift up along the way are a sizeable part of it, too. It ALL matters.

A couple of bad steps can bring this lonely place closer than we would like.

Don’t be this person. Take the skills you have and develop them.

Use your brain, put a plan together, focus on making it work.

Stick to the course. Watch out for the luck we all need (that seems to pop up when you least expect it), get your squad around you, take the chances you get, put the pieces together, and deliver on the plan.

Get help if you need it, but most importantly, do the work. There’s no replacement for that.