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Twenty books worth reading this year and how to finish them
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Do one room a month and the house changes by spring
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Don't make the big decision in the first year
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The letter you keep meaning to write takes eleven minutes
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Three lines a night is all the journal you need
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Twenty pages a day is the whole reading plan
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Start with the guy who's already in your phone
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Moving day is won three weeks before the truck shows up
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Say it at the driveway before you say it to the county
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Your commute is 400 hours a year, so give it a job
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Start with one person and history stops being homework
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Reply in two days, write four sentences, arrive on time
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Why week six of a new skill feels like going backwards
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Finding your people in a town where you know nobody
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Knock on the door before you need anything
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Give them the skill, not just the Saturday
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Go to the funeral, and stay for the sandwiches
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How to start a standing night that lasts ten years
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Have people round more often by doing considerably less
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Walking into a club at forty and actually going back
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How to find a group in your town that's worth showing up for
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Become the neighbor your street calls at eleven at night
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Keeping a friend when neither of you has a spare evening