You have no obligations to your former self, they are dumber than you and they don’t exist.

Hank Green's Secrets of Productivity:

1.) I have convinced myself that if I am not using all of the tools I have in my disposal to do the maximum amount of good [...] then I am less of a good person than I could otherwise could be. [...]

2.) I intentionally put myself in situations where people who I care about and who I respect rely on me to do things, which is very motivating. [...]

3.) I don't get caught up in doing everything perfectly. [...] I just want to try stuff and if it explodes... it exploded! And I learned!

4.) I love giving other people responsibility. I love putting them in difficult situations and saying: "Figure this out. Help me do this." And if they do it wrong or if they do it differently than how I would have done it, I don't get mad as long as they're learning, because there's no way to get good at stuff except to do it and fail and learn. [...]

5.) I follow and cultivate my own curiosity. I think curiosity is one of the top two or three human characteristics. It's something that I really like about myself. [...] I want to understand stuff! I want to understand people! Following my curiosity so frequently leads me to better life decisions and better business decisions but also - just feeling better! You're never going to feel bad about your whole life if you loved people and you were curious. I mean, that's kind of all I want!

If Tiger Woods calls you up on the phone and asks you to help him, ... you've got to think he thinks you know something.

Alan Greenspan's highly respected, and [his comments] can't help Bush, but it's early in the process, and we never really did think the president's proposal would sail through as drafted.

We want to do everything we can to help our customers this winter. Thanks to some well-timed decisions, our superb asset management program, and the good fortune of warmer weather, our gas costs are moderating. We want to pass along these savings to customers with their first bills in February.

I cried out every day that we needed help. We needed finances and support. And it fell on deaf ears. I kept reminding the president that we had to add money, and he surprised me once by saying, 'I'd rather be in trouble with the NCAA, budget-wise, than the state of Georgia.' That's when I got wind that the money wasn't going to be there.