Top 15 Things to NEVER Do (pass this along to your kids)

Kathryn Leigh Vecchio Jul 31, 2013 · 4 min read

Restored from the Empower Network archive (2011–2017), lightly edited to meet our current advertising standards. Views are the original author’s.

It’s time for you to be afraid of a few things.

These are not myths. These are absolute facts and no one can deny them.

If you want to be absolutely safe in life (until you die),

then here is a virtual “buffet” of anecdotes, tips and

thoughts to keep you from death and from any new experiences….

1. Don’t jog at night. In fact, don’t jog in the daytime.
One-hundred percent of people mugged while jogging were all out there jogging in the first place.

2. Never marry or have a family. 22% of all murders

are committed by family members or spouses.

3. Never get to know anyone. Most rapists are people you know.

4. Never climb a mountain. One hundred percent of the people who died while mountain-climbing
(or who were beaten up by Sherpas during a mountain climb) were out there mountain-climbing in the first place. Keep your ass on the ground.

5. Never kiss a baby. One hundred percent of the people who have ever kissed a baby are either dead or on their way to being dead. You’ve been warned.

6. Avoid bridges and tunnels. Everyone ever killed in a bridge or tunnel collapse was in the process of using a bridge or tunnel.

7. Don’t use the Internet. The Internet is used by pedophiles

8. Music is a killer. Every serial killer in history once either played a song or listened to a song on the radio.

9. Don’t visit Gettysburg. Your great-great-great-great- great-uncle Elmer once visited Gettysburg and was shot in the butt by a Confederate soldier.

10. Don’t eat packaged food. It’s dangerous. Don’t eat unpackaged food. It could be dirty. Don’t eat.

11. Never date someone who comes from a different religion or background than you. All four of your parents will die.

12. Never date someone of a different race than you. You will both die, possibly of liver failure.

13. Avoid bus stops, schoolhouses, churches, parking lots, football stadiums, concert halls, big fancy restaurants, the Eiffel Tower, any town in Tennessee, any place where food is cooked by someone other than your mother, the beach, airplanes, street festivals, or bowling alleys. Bad things have happened in all those places.

14. Don’t eat fruit. One of your ancestors once ate a piece of fruit and nearly choked to death. Just saying.

15. Don’t start a home business. Every person who has tried to make money from home has either died or is going to die in the next 100 years.

There you go….

If you follow those instructions, you’ll avoid a lot of danger

and risk.

Of course, you probably won’t have much of a life, either.

Now, you and I will laugh at this list. Because it’s stupid.

(You DO know it’s stupid, right?)

See, the truth is that there’s no such thing as “playing it safe”.

Just waking up in the morning is a risk.

We don’t know what’s going to happen any day.

I could live to be 120 years old.

I could die in the next 5 minutes.

The same is true of you….

That’s all.

The question is:

Are you doing what you want to be

doing with your life right now?

If not….why not?

What are you waiting for?

So no one is really “playing it safe”.

You’re either playing SMALL or you’re playing BIG.

Life’s not a dress rehearsal.

This is the only shot you’ve got.

And you don’t get points for trying to make it safely to the grave.

When I realized this….I married the girl of my dreams.
I became a Dad.

I started playing music.

I started a business and became a millionaire.

I started traveling the world.

I do WHAT I want….WHEN I want….with the people that I’m in love with.

Let me be clear: your life is a CHOICE.

Your life right now is exactly what you’ve CHOSEN

for it to be.

You chose it with the decisions and actions that

you’ve been taking lately.

Don’t like your bank account?

Then start doing something different.

Don’t like your relationships?

Then start changing how you treat the people around you.

Don’t like your weight?

Stop eating carbs at 10pm at night

I’ll say it again: your life is a CHOICE that you

make every day.

And anyone –including you — can be in an

entirely new life in the next 30 days if you’re

willing to change how you think and what you

do.

You can live in fear and never venture anything….

Or you can SEIZE THE DAY and start living

your life “on purpose” right now.

The choice is yours.

Choose well!

Kathryn Leigh Vecchio

P.S. here’s a video from my buddy Dave who turned his life around in a big way.

He was dead-broke and a drug-addict.

Today he’s made something amazing

out of his life. Watch this story here.

P.P.S. Whatever you do…..do something.

Don’t let your days slip away into weeks…

into months….into years of frustration of

not living the life you want.

You can do it. I’m in your corner.