Make love passionately, aggressively and ferociously. Pull your clothes and make love in the elevator, in the car, on the kitchen slab, on the beach sands, on the balcony, in the airplane toilet at 30,000 feet, and in the zoo.

Spend time with people in their 80s and 90s and listen to their stories of follies and regrets.

Hide away from your children from time to time and enjoy the peace and fulfilment that comes from eating what you bought all alone by yourself.

Read voraciously as much as your mind can take – mystics, biographies, poetry, fiction, sci-fi, drama.

Eat eggs and drink water.

Journal your crazy thoughts. As crazy as they can be, maybe no other human could bear them, but your journal deserves the honour.

Cherish that friend that listens without condescension and provides a safe space to voice your eccentricity.

Make sure to drink organic teas or brews everyday.

Discover places with satiating ambience and enjoy the feeling.

Don’t support any football club. Sorry, support only the winning teams and don’t feel guilty to switch support midway the league.

Cherish the times you have with your children. They’ll grow old soon and your house will feel empty.

Stay away from foolish conversations.

Have your own room if you’re married. Sleep naked on the bed and feel the awesomeness of aloneness.

Travel often. Travel far. See new cultures. In Ghana I learnt that coffins are made according to the profession the dead practiced while alive.

Go for massages. They’re therapeutic. Feels the palms of the therapist do wonders on your body.

Play in the rain. Roll in the mud. Wall barefooted. Connect to the child in you.

Practice praying silently and feel the power of connecting to the divine.

Make a practice of watching and studying animals. There are lessons to learn.

Listen to your doctor. Listen to your lawyer. Listen to your priest. Always evaluate their words to you.

Never listen to those who tell you not to sleep. You need to sleep to live. Ignore those half-baked motivators.

Accept miracles. Open yourself to luck. Cherish the graces.

Don’t forget to laugh out loud always.

Live and let live.