1. Evaluate what took you this far, and shed things that didn't directly benefit you or downright hindered you; whether relationships, eating habits, shell, edi

1. Evaluate what took you this far, and shed things that didn't directly benefit you or downright hindered you; whether relationships, eating habits, shell, editor, thought/behavior patterns or what have you. 2. Revisit yourself at ~18, but don't seek their approval. Find out what stunned them and do your best to describe it. If you're unhappy with the description, it's an opportunity to learn. 3. If you could sum up your Profession into a specialty that would take you into retirement, what does that look like? How does it feel? 4. "Don't sweat the petty things" is pretty solid advice at any age. Just another Cheerio under the sofa cushion of life. 5. What was old becomes new again. There are Generations of knowledge locked up in old papers, studies and magazines waiting for the "time to be right". That time is now. 6. Take some time to lay out a map to your passionate understanding of tech for your offspring to discover. Think "Treasure Map" not "Syllabus". (See point 5)