Which brings you to...
LIFE LESSON #23
When you practice regular meditation, you find you are able to see so much more.
Meditation works like one of those shake-up-snow-dome thingies - it helps the flaky stuff in your mind settle down, so you can see more clearly what you truly need and want.
So once a day you just sit. Stop. Become a human still life.
Except.
Do nothing.
Be nothing.

Except breathe. You become one with your breath. You breathe. In and out. In and out. You shhhhhhhh and ignore the shhhhhhhhhh*t.
Gently borrowed from, "how to be HAPPY, dammit: a cynic's guide to spiritual happiness", by Karen Salmansohn.