[unluky]

Successes - Listened to my father enough to stuff $ away at every opportunity, kept the wrapper on at all times to avoid and dependents before I was mature enough to handle it, and soaked up every ounce of knowledge "old timers" were willing to share with me.

Regrets - wish I would have realized my own self-worth sooner. I was probably close to 30 when I fully realized all those people I looked up to and idolized professionally were pretty much making it up as they went along just like me and were scared they were Fing it all up just like me. Once I realized that the only real difference between the "climbers" and the "sitters" was the stones to make a decision and the brains to fix it when you made the wrong one - my life got much easier.