I think we’ve all seen or heard that challenge of if you could write your 9-year old self one piece of advice from the future, what would it be?

I put together the following list in the hopes of narrowing it down to one.

Don’t run behind the mosquito abatement truck.

Take the doors to the Jeep when you drive cross-country to Colorado.

Ask every girl out on a date that you’re too afraid to ask.

Drink more water.

Stand up for people being picked on.

Take less, give away more.

Save all your baseball cards.

Never swallow chewing tobacco.

If it looks like too much to flush, it is.

Don’t show-off.

Don’t ever say something to hurt someone else.

Don’t let Dad cut your hair.

Don’t beat Dad’s Army canteen into the tree because the metal makes a neat sound.

Don’t take apart your cars carburetor to clean it.

Don’t hide the cigarettes in the candy jar downstairs that Mom and Dad never use.

Don’t walk into your parents bedroom without knocking first.

If you ever think to yourself, “This is really stupid!” You should really listen to that voice.

When you organize a golf trip for 7 of your closest friends to Phoenix, don’t think you can make the 2am flight out of LasVegas (that they are all on) back to Phoenix on a Sunday morning when you’re standing in the cash out line with $800 in chips at 1:50am.

Don’t keep the keys for the rental van that’s back in Phoenix (with all the golf clubs in it), in your pocket.

Say I love you more often.

Bet on the Cubs to win the World Series.

Don’t pull anyone’s finger.

Don’t change a thing. You’re going to do fine just the way you are.

More to Come. :)