Everyone spends a more time than they should thinking about what their family would be like, if we were a House on the Game of Thrones, right?
In the spirit of all things geek, I decided to collect the wisdom of the House of Stevenson. Our words would be: "Vigilance. Victory. Vengeance."
These are in no particular order...Feel free to add more (or wisdom of your houses) in the comments, if you'd like.
1. If you woke up without a goal, go back to sleep. Decide what it is you want. Write that shit down. Make a fucking plan. And work on it. Every. Single. Day
2. To exponentially elevate the quality of your life, commit to removing your fearful thoughts, acts of timidity, and the need to be the same as everyone else to feel a sense of belonging.
3. Devotion + knowledge (of you) + generosity = love. Love folks so much that you can simply enjoy them for being once in a lifetime kind of people. Choose love-as-respect and intimacy-as-trust; reject the more popular model of love-as-anxiety and intimacy-as-sexual-thrall.
4. Confidence is not 'They will like me.' Confidence is: 'I'll be fine if they don't.'
5. A person who feels appreciated will always do more than what is expected.
6. You deserve the love you are trying to give everyone else.
7. Sometimes you just gotta leave people alone to see where you really stand in their life.
8. The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience. Don't fear failure: Fear being in the same place next year as you are today.
9. Understand the difference between someone who speaks to you on their free time and someone who frees their time to speak to you.
10. Just because you miss someone doesn't mean you need them back in your life.
11. Life is too short for boring clothes, shitty sex and bad relationships. So go find someone who fucks you right and treats you how you deserve to be treated.
12. Learn to accept people for who they are. Learn to reject them for that same reason.
13. Seek to be worth knowing rather than well known.
14. When you are born in a world you don't fit in to; it's because you were born to help create a new one. Endings clear space for new Beginnings; past disappointments, once the lingering marks of initial pain recede, are foundations for greater joy and flourishing.
15. The sign of a beautiful person is that they always see beauty in others.
16. If the plan doesn't work, change the plan. But never change the goal. Maybe it won't work out. But maybe seeing if it does will be the best adventure ever.
17. Intimacy is who you text/snap at 3am about your dreams and fears. Intimacy is giving someone your attention, when ten other people are asking for it. Intimacy is the person always in the back of your mind, no matter how distracted you are.
18. Be a boss. Date/marry a boss. Build an empire together.
19. If you see someone than has everything going for them, and you're not ready to add value to their life, please admire them from afar. Don't interrupt their greatness with fuckshit.
20. Catch me while I care.
21. Literacy is fundamental; reading comes next. Beggars can't be shaders.
