I’ll add that if you have an eye issue, don’t go to the ER. Go to an ophthalmologist. Not an optometrist, ophthalmologist. Example: If your eye is bleeding because your retina detached (sudden splotches appearing in your vision) the ER and an optometrist cannot help you, and every minute is crucial.
Never give your neighbor too much F.I.S.H. Fish is an acronym for “Fucking Information Shit Head”. Neighbor is anyone who does not need to know details and you’re not extremely close to. This can be family, work friends, bosses, cops, HR, etc. It’s easy to remember and can save your ass. Teach this to your friends. Teaching each other to use it as a code for “shut up, idiot!” in situations you can’t explicitly say that helps too.
Get the manual for your car and keep it in your car. Reference it as needed.
Read articles on what’s going on in the world, read books, and watch documentaries. Including on subjects you don’t necessarily love or learned about already in school. Continuing to use your brain and learn can only help you. Media literacy and critical thinking are skills that must be used in order to keep them.
Join a club, volunteer, or something. I personally chose choir. This will help you make friends and have community outside of your job. This is especially necessary if you work from home so it gets you out of your house.
Take a daily multivitamin.
Use your sick days and vacation time.
Get a weather alert app on your phone. It’s important to know when storms or poor air quality are a thing in your area.
Eat every day. Even if it’s not healthy. Even if it’s ingredients and not a cohesive meal. Eating something is always better than not eating at all.
“Time management” at work can also just be doing your work at a pace that keeps you busy and out of your boss’s hair. My previous supervisor loved that I’d figured out how to stretch my workload to fit my hours, and drove her crazy when one co-worker finished projects so fast that she was always asking for more to do.
Go for walks from time to time. I personally need to work on that.
When it’s cold out, always have a coat with you. You don’t have to wear it, but it needs to be there if something goes wrong. (Example: car breaks down on the way to the store, there’s a fire at work and you have to evacuate the building, etc.) Require this of anyone riding in your car as well.