How well do these Vulcan tips fit your thinking about independence?
Never:  Never use it: 
Try:  Might try it.
Use:  Use it as needed
Tell: Tell it to people who need it

You are the author of your life.

Self-improvement is not a duty but an opportunity.

You are what you choose to do.

To pay for success, you may have to tax your brain.

Believe those who are seeking the truth.  Doubt those who have found it.

You are dedicating your life to become something.  Do you know what it is?

Use the cues or the cues will use you.

The language of complaint starts with they.  The language of solutions starts with I.

Your only power to control the future lies in what you do in the present.

Who is in charge of what you should do? 

All your solutions start with you.

When you work for yourself, you never work by the hour.