10 Takeaways for Professional Practice

1. Prioritize

• Prioritize your physical, mental, and spiritual health to live a long, happy, and fulfilling life.
• Then prioritize your financial health.
• Not every priority can have the same importance.

2. Get Help

• Community is "currency" of the human beings.
• Seek help when feeling powerless, overlooked, or unstable.
• Help others when you're in a position of power, influence, and stability.

3. Prepare ≠ Plan

• Preparation should be apart of all plans.
• A good plan can fail.
• Not your fault, but it is your: challenge.

4. Attention ≠ Awareness

• Narrow attention is seeing the trees
• Wide attention is seeing the forrest
• Have awareness of both.
  • e.g. focus on the task at hand -- and have awareness of the World

5. Worth

• (Eventually) Stop hourly billing
• Get paid what your-are-worth i.e. a salary or per project
• Resolve subjective worth versus objective price/cost

6. Ownership

• What do you own? e.g. house or an idea
• What did you borrow? e.g. a lease or a font
• Are you unknowingly "stealing" time, ideas, etc.?

6. Taxes

• Understand your taxes. Deduction vs. Credit?
• Plan for taxes. Annual? Quarterly? Monthly?
• Pay your taxes. Repeat.

7. Career

• Give your career the time and attention it deserves.
• Give your-self the time and attention you deserve.
• Allocate time. Prioritize attention.

9. Why Work?

• Accept (the vast majority of people in industrialized countries) have-to work.
• Make choices where have-to work changes to choose-to work.
• Does the work align with your values? Protect your values.

10. Be Heard. Be Seen.

• Be heard and seen in your relationships, workplace, and in the world.
• Can you protest, criticize, and vocalize (and accept others will do the same)?
• Help others be seen and be heard e.g. gender pay inequity.