In January, we asked you what advice you’d give your younger self as part of our regular We Ask, You Answer feature.

There was plenty of great advice—and a lot of catharsis, it seemed—and we’ve collected some of the best tips for you here.

1. Don’t worry about the future.

2. Follow your passion, even if it does not pay very well. If you are good at what you do and love your career choice - the money will eventually follow.

3. Now is the time to establish good habits for life in every area; they might take a lot of hard work to form, but it’s worth the effort and missed television.

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Most career advice you receive focuses on the big picture: how to get ahead, how to “win,” and such things that are on a much larger scale than the daily grind that most of us face. In fact, it is that day to day grind that pulls down many of us - we go to work, come home exhausted, and often feel as though we’re just spinning our wheels.

If you want to get ahead in your career and in your life, you need to start small and look at the immediate things you can do to help out your situation. If you’re sitting out there at your desk, tiredly wondering if there’s something better that you can be doing with your life, start with these fifteen tips that you can start executing immediately that will lead you down a path towards a better career.

Make a list of all of the things you did today/this week/this month to help your organization, and file them away.
Whenever you have a few spare moments, make a list of all of the things you are actually doing at work. Date them and provide specific examples. When you’ve made this list, drop it in a folder and let it sit there until your next performance review - or the next time you ask for a raise or a promotion. I do this regularly, which has allowed me to build up extensive positive documentation about my career.

Send a thank-you note
If you’ve recently been assisted in your career or personal development by someone, spend a few moments and send that person a handwritten thank you note. The respect, kindness, and personal touch of a handwritten thank you creates an indelible positive mark in your favor in the recipient’s mind, which can do nothing but help you out in the long run.

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1. This moment will nap, you will have a dream; but this moment study, you will interpret a dream.
此刻打盹，你将做梦；而此刻学习，你将圆梦。
2. I leave uncultivated today, was precisely yesterday perishes tomorrow which person of the body implored.
我荒废的今日，正是昨日殒身之人祈求的明日。
3. Thought is already is late, exactly is the earliest time.
觉得为时已晚的时候，恰恰是最早的时候。
4. Not matter of the today will drag tomorrow.
勿将今日之事拖到明日。
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