I turn 18 tomorrow, what's some advice people on here have for me to start of my adult life?

Bit of an esoteric set of tips but I like making lists that aren't all too obvious (and thus hard to remember) - Allow yourself the grace and self care/respect to make mistakes. Don't make big mistakes, make small ones and learn from them. Small regular mistakes you learn from beat infrequent huge life altering mistakes. This ability to dissolve from your ego of perfectionism is a super power. - you can do so much more in 10 years than you ever thought possible, and less in a year than you wanted too. (Though it can still be a lot when compounded with small bits of effort and tweaking things over a long enough time ). The time will go anyway, so work on the 10 years. don't write yourself off after one bad year. - don't buy what you can't pay in full. Yes rich people play around with interest and loans and stuff, it's a headache just avoid it. Only pay for what you have money for. Pay it in full or have it ready to pay off a credit card in full at end of the month and never have anything else pulling from that same money resource. I prefer just paying when I can buy something outright and no credit card stuff. But others may say different. - an hour a day is your weapon to fight anything. I don't care what it is, you can somehow scrape an hour a day to help fight it. If you can't do that at first try 10 mins then 20 mins then 40 then an hour. Examples: meal food prep, exercise, language learning, interview skills practise, job prep, YouTube lessons on something interesting, creating a landscape painting, trying one leetcode problem, looking up and implementing one solution for something. Could even be talking to randoms outside on an hour's walk - social media is going to break your brain so don't let it. These are things social media is good for: to promote/market something, a creative pursuit that you want to share but don't want feedback over, to flex/low key status show with the hope it leads to irl opportunities. If you aren't using it for specific reasons then it's just importing rubbish to your brain that will make you feel too positive or too angry or too sad or something else. - God judges you by intentions, people judge you by actions. It's no good saying you're a good guy, be the guy that's actions align with their values. Not the person constantly working on how to demonstrate the appearance of value. On a long enough time frame your good actions add up and accumulate. - no weed and ideally no drink either. weed is hardcore copoum for youngsters and it destroys drive. It's useful for genuine medical requirements but besides those slim situations (which again maybe CBD is better in those ) just avoid it. If you are feeling out of sorts use the one hour a day weapon to fix your day to day slowly to address the underlying issues - be humble don't believe the praise or the hate. Work on yourself as you begin to recognise how to clearly assess yourself over time. It won't come immediately and that's okay. Just doing anything is enough - trick to saving money, take money out immediately through pots or other methods and literally forget about the money taken out. When you are in need of something important for investigating for those things. But keeping it out of mind keeps it from being spent. - add friction to some bits of your life and add ease in other bits. Say you want to lose weight, okay eat more protein a day and walk on the way back from uni to your dorm or work to your home. That's adding a little more friction. A way to add ease is to get a massage ball gun and use that on any aches and pains as a self care thing These are some ideas that will help, start using them immediately to get some momentum started