Lessons I have learned

Lessons I have learned:

1. If you want to achieve great things it's no good mixing with people who are happy where they are, doing what they've always done.
2. The hardest step getting started on a project is usually the first one and involves "you" telling your mind that you want to do it.
3. It takes time, effort and patience - and there are no magic bullets to shorten the time, effort and patience needed.
4. There is an endless demand for free services, and the more you give, the more you are expected to carry on giving.
5. Friends are those people who would bail you out of a mexican jail. The rest are just acquaintances.
6. "The graveyards are full of indispensable men" I think it was De Gaulle who said that, and you know what "he" was right. Take a holiday now and then, and it doesn't have to be big, a long weekend can do the trick.
7. Make time every day to do what you want to do, otherwise other people will fill that time for you.
8. People who don't read are no different from those who can't.
9. Sleep is one of the best de-stressors around.
10. If you do something a little different today you can make 365 changes to your life in one year.
11. Habits are those annoying things we didn't think we had - until we tried to stop doing them.
12. Sometimes you just have to let people "go". If they are not on the same train as you when you decide to leave the station then that's their hard luck - not yours.

What lessons have you learned?