1. Worry is interest paid on trouble before it's due, while an attitude of gratitude is a downpayment on a life well-lived. 2. You get what you give. 3. The powerful will always rule, but the way you control the narrative is by having something they want. So always have something they want. 4. If the same random thing happens twice in a row, watch out… there's something afoot. 5. The world really doesn't owe you a damn thing. 6. Carry your ID with you at all times. 7. Speakin

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I would venture to say that there are only a handful of events that might cause a person’s life to flash before their eyes. Earlier this week was a new one – for me, at least – when my mom told me that my childhood piano teacher, Patsy Vines, had just passed away. As soon as I heard this, the flash sent me all the way back to the first week of my second grade class in the fall of 1979. There was a girl who got to leave class for an hour once a week for piano lessons from a wo