Author: Rebecca Toh

1. What’s the rush?

2. Time expands when you’re focused, contracts when you’re distracted.

3. Approach everything with the mind of a beginner.

4. Don’t be fixated on knowing where you will end up. Enjoy the journey; your joy will bring you to where you need to be.

5. Happiness is not needing or striving to be happy.

6. Watching one really good drama series is better than watching twenty mediocre ones.

7. The most mundane things in life are really the most important and beautiful ones.

8. We are here to do important work. We do important work by being true to who we are.

9. Investing is philosophy + psychology in action, and a real test of character.

10. Everything is just a thought.

I want one…

Life isn’t a routine practised to death. Be curious, like a child. Wonder why things are. See things as if for the first time. Ask the stupidest questions.

And shed that serious, hardened adult mask.

Let’s go PLAY!

“There’s no such thing as stress; there are only people thinking stressful thoughts.”
– Dr. Wayne W. Dyer

“Chad deeply valued his privacy, and I wasn’t privy to the details of his illness. After his family released their statement, I realized that he was living with his illness the entire time I knew him. Because he was a caretaker, a leader, and a man of faith, dignity and pride, he shielded his collaborators from his suffering. He lived a beautiful life. And he made great art. Day after day, year after year. That was who he was. He was an epic firework display. I will tell stories about being there for some of the brilliant sparks till the end of my days.”
– Ryan Coogler on Chadwick Boseman

1. Most of our problems are imaginary problems.

2. It would be nice to enjoy, for once, being here, rather than always wanting to be somewhere better and doing something more interesting.

3. What we have now is what we used to want.

4. Just because other people are doing A, doesn’t mean I need to start doing A.

5. There are no real obligations in this world.

6. Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity.

7. Perfectionism is more toxic than you imagine. Watch yourself and notice how often you’re being a perfectionist without even realising it. And see how it chips away at your happiness.

8. Read everything but don’t be afraid to give up anything that turns out awful or mediocre.

9. Writing is the medium of learning (not the other way around).

10. Find opportunities to be kind. Every day.

Bonus thought: Practise what you believe as much as you can, but always be kind to yourself when you can’t.

Be grateful for life today. LIVE, LIVE, LIVE! Live with passion! (Go chase your curiosities, go tumble down rabbit holes of your own choosing!) Live with joy! Be unabashedly in love with this fleeting life! And finally, live with peace and acceptance, knowing that everything is part of this human experience that we’re meant to have.

May you be less afraid today to taste the goodness of life.

After all, afraid or not, this is all gonna end one day.

We might as well make the most of it.