Make as much mistakes as you can.
Now that we’re at our twenties, this should be the best time to take great risks and make mistakes. Stop being scared about the outcome of everything! This is time where we should do what we want and explore everything and anything that we want to! It’s better to look back ten years from now knowing that we were able to do everything we wanted.
“A person, who never made a mistake, never tried anything new.” –Albert Einstein
“Never be afraid to do something new, remember, amateurs built the arc; professionals built the titanic.” -Unknown
Take on as many jobs as you want.
We’ll never know what we truly love unless we get into if not all, most of the industries that we want to enter. This is the time where we can try and try as much careers as we want! Want to write? Be a producer? Or even make your own business? Never be scared to do what you want so by the time you hit thirty, you should know or at least have an idea of what you want to do the rest of your life.
“Do you want to spend the rest of your life selling sugared water or do you want a chance to change the world?” – Steve Jobs’ famous question to John Sculley, former Apple CEO
“Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.” - Confucius
Travel, travel, travel.
There are so many things in this world that we should experience and they always say you get richer by traveling; well not financially, but experience wise this would be the best time for you to learn about different cultures. Try living in another country alone! It will teach you to be independent and even make you realize how much you love your own country. The thought might scare the hell out of you but how bad can it get? Experience is the best teacher so go ahead and do it!
“Travel is the only thing you buy that makes you richer” –Unknown
Start keeping a journal
Wouldn’t it be nice to look back on your journal after ten years and know exactly what you’ve been doing during your young, wild, and free days? I’ve kept and written on my journal religiously every single day for four years straight now and it’s really nice to just read through it and remember all the memories– good or bad. Makes you realize how far you’ve come and how different your perspective in life was. It’s never too late to start jotting down your life so start today!
"Be a collector of good ideas, but don't trust your memory. The best collecting place for all of the ideas and information that comes your way is your journal." - Jim Rohn
Make your own dream board
I’ve recently signed up to Pinterest.com and I’m addicted it! It’s like my own virtual dream board where I can save all the ideas that I’ve found and even all the things that I would love to have in the future. Make a dream board of your future home or even future wedding! You’ll be surprised at how much time you can spend browsing through pictures and saving them in your own little virtual board. You can even do it by cutting out pictures and making your very own board, just the way you want it. This way you stay focused on what you want to achieve, how you can achieve it and believe me, it would feel so good to take one post out of your board once you achieve one of your goals.
“If you can imagine it, you can dream it, if you can dream it, you can achieve it.” -Unknown
Get your dream body
At your twenties, they say you can eat as much pizza as you want and not gain weight the next day. This is the best time for you to start on your exercise routine since our bodies will be quick to respond to any workout that we do. Ten years from now, our metabolism will get slower and slower so start being healthy now to look like J.Lo when you’re 43 (or hopefully even just close to her killer abs!). Make a commitment to yourself before it’s too late. Start boxing, do yoga, go running, get to the gym or just do any physical exercise that will get you closer to your dream body. Don’t forget to put it in your dream board so that one day you’ll be able to proudly take it off. Always remember that you have to work hard to get what you want, not just for those killer abs but for whatever you do in this lifetime. It’s just feels so much better and fulfilling that way.
“Don’t find the time for what’s important to you, make time for it” –Unknown
Fall in love as much as you can.
Go out on as many dates as you can, make new friends, get into new groups! That way you’ll find out who and what kind of person you would want to spend the rest of your life with. Never be afraid to get your heart broken! Yes, it may and will feel like the end of the world when your heart gets broken but life goes on and one day you’ll find yourself laughing at all the stupid things you’ve done for a guy who is not even close to deserving someone like you. You end up realizing how much you’re worth and how lucky a guy should be to have you. Stop whining about how you won’t get married or how you hate being single. You are too young to even worry about marriage! There will always be that one special person you’ll meet and eventually spend the rest of your life with, believe me. You may even realize how happy you can be being single and young!
“Not to spoil the ending for you, but everything will be OKAY,” - Unknown
Just stop, breathe, and be thankful.
Start realizing everything that you should be thankful for. Simply waking up today is something you should be grateful for. There are so many people fighting for their lives and you’re just lucky to be alive and healthy. Be thankful for simply being you. If you can be grateful for the small things that you have right now, what more when you are able to get everything you dreamed of?
“There will always, always, always be something to be thankful for.” -Unknown
Make every second of your life count.
Do something with your life and do it with greatness! It’s better to take that risk and be one step closer to achieving your dreams than not doing anything at all. Yes we may not take life seriously right now but never let yourself settle with what you have right now because you’re too lazy! We are the authors of our own lives so why not fill it with heaven and hell type of memories that we should learn from so by the time we reach the big 3-0, we can pretty much say we’ve been there and done that.
“Just do it!” -Nike
Start believing that every little thing happens for a reason.
Every single moment or experience, good or bad has a reason. We may not know it right now but in time we will remember these moments and be thankful for them. Live your life with no fear of mistakes or rejection. There will be doors slammed right at your face and it means that there are better and bigger doors that will be opened for you.
“Things fall apart so greater things can come together” – Unknown
(Chrystel explains: This was inspired by being surrounded by thirty year olds constantly complaining about how they wish they were in their twenties again. Don’t make the same mistakes!)
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