Don't

Don’t believe everything you think, criticize if it won’t help, confuse compassion with justice, say you can if you can’t, say you’re going to and not, boast, envy, obfuscate, conclude what you want because you want to, confuse effort with result, afflict inanimate objects with conjured meaning, tread on others unless they’re treading on you, cut what can be untied, consciously over-compensate for unconscious doubt, say more than do, catch falling knives, lose your temper, unless it would be bad to keep it, do what you don’t want to get what you don’t need, want what you can’t get, think you need want want more than you need, over-sacrifice need for want and vice versa, swim with the incontinent, do anything you don’t want done to you, unless you need to, say you’re going to do something and not do it, be a very good bad example, think more of what could have than what may be, be unloved, ask a barber if you need a haircut, hide confusion with obliqueness, let obsession with righteousness metastasize into hubris, let small mistakes become big ones by eliminating what’s not working, and by doing more of what is, sooner than later, lead without permission, rationalize faults by blaming others, over-adore wanted acquisition, think you know what you don’t, do guilt, sacrifice future unhappiness for an unnecessarily pleasant present, underestimate irrationality, offend many to benefit few, do what you don’t understand, let what you own, own you, lend need, owe more than you can easily repay, spend more than you make, build monuments, succeed at failure, over think or give up.