I have been in hiatus for the most part of 2018 and this prolonged ‘water stop’ from the rat race gave me a chance to reflect on my ‘yuppie years’ immediately following college graduation. While I cannot travel back in time to share these life lessons to my then fresh-grad self, I’m hoping that my son will read this blog (albeit 15 years down the road) and put some – if not all – of these lessons into good use.