Standing knee deep in a river and dying of thirst.
I guess the biggest thing is that I committed to a spiritual center before I do anything else. And I put some daily things in my life into practice and I maintain that, to make sure that I don't drop the ball.
Dance like nobody's watching.
You've got to dance like nobody's watching, and love like it's never going to hurt.
A gourmet meal without a glass of wine just seems tragic to me somehow.
So I really did stop and change what I saw I was about, and really try to put that principle into play as the center of everything - my friendships, my marriage, my career, my family, my way of being in the world. And that changed everything for me.