Having a carefree life doesn’t require you to forgo all your responsibilities and live like a free spirit. If you’re trying to focus on just having a good time right now, don’t make the mistake of clearing your calendar to do it. Having commitments helps you appreciate your downtime all the more, so be sure to keep a healthy balance between work and play. If you have no reason to wake up in the morning or no place to feel useful, you’ll never truly be happy.

You fly through your day faster than you realize, so make sure to take stock now and then. Before unthinkingly accepting any old invitation or sending that message, ask yourself if it’s for the best.

You and your partner are about to have an important conversation. The content isn’t what’s important. Instead, pay attention to how it happens and the way it’s expressed to make this exchange successful.

You’re flitting from one idea to another without doing any real research into any of them. That inability to focus is turning your life into one big story of hope, and not in a good way. Instead of hoping for a better financial future, you should be out there making it happen. Take that fiction and make it into your reality.