Your mission isn't a project to check off your list. It's a commitment to which to dedicate your life.

Choose your exercise using the same criteria you'd apply to choosing a date - that is, attractive to you and able to hold your interest for an hour.

Happiness comes from accepting the present situation, whether it is something you wish to savor as long as possible or change as quickly as you can. Neither is possible without acceptance as the starting point, because without acceptance you are living on the periphery of your life. There at the edges, you can't fully enjoy the good stuff or do anything about the rest.

"Make your plate look like a Christmas tree," I tell people, "mostly green with splashes of other bright colors."

In terms of days and moments lived, you'll never again be as young as you are right now, so spend this day, the youth of your future, in a way that deflects regret. Invest in yourself. Have some fun. Do something important. Love somebody extra. In one sense, you're just a kid, but a kid with enough years on her to know that every day is priceless.

If you don't accept yourself, you won't live fully, and if you don't live fully you'll need to get full some other way.

Let other people do it their way. What other people do is irrelevant.