DISCOVER 7 Great Life Lessons You Should Learn In Your 20's

By Kibet Tobias
Your 20’s are the best time to experience and try new things.
With these new experiences you are able to gain fresh perspectives, and find out what you like.
It is a time for living life and discovering your path. It’s also an incredibly important time to create a lasting effect on your financial life and career life.

Here Are The Great Lessons You Should Learn In Your 20’s

1. Discover your career
Your 20’s is a hilarious yet terrifying part of your life because you’re at this stage where you are old enough to know better and young enough to not care.
A huge part of your 20’s is figuring out what you want to do, and who you want to be.
For most, this point means floating and swaying in the waters of job applications and rejection. It means reflecting and productively figuring out what perfect career will make you happiest. And it means trying things, hating them, and moving on to newer and better opportunities with a positive outlook.
Embarking on your career journey will teach you so much, and in your 20’s you should try and learn what it is you want to do with your career. And more importantly, learn how to take steps towards those goals.
Your 20’s are about making mistakes, but they are also about learning to navigate yourself and the world so you don’t have to continue to make the same mistakes.
The most important thing you can learn in your 20’s is that life isn’t about discovering yourself, it’s about creating yourself.

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2. Choose Your Debt Wisely
Your 20s are not only a time of great opportunity to set up your finances for life, but they’re also a time for making or avoiding the biggest mistakes.
One of the mistakes which can take a lifetime to recover from, is getting into debt, specifically bad debt.
In your 20s, you’re likely setting up your own home and life away from your parents, which costs money. Many 20-somethings turn to credit cards — a bad choice if you can’t pay them off right away.
3. Stop Comparing Yourself to Others
Stop comparing yourself to those around you.
It means nothing if you aren’t in the same place professionally or personally as someone the same age – or younger – than you.
We are all walking individual paths, and our journeys cannot possibly look the same.
Be confident in the path your life is taking and, if you want to change something, take action to do so.
4. Know How to Do Things For Yourself
You don’t always need to call the plumber. There are many small household tasks you can accomplish yourself for a fraction of the cost.
Thanks to YouTube, you can find how-to videos to guide you through most home repairs.
Not only will you save yourself some cash, you’ll gain the satisfaction of having accomplished something you didn’t think you could do.
5. Eat healthy
Eating out or buying food to eat at home is fine in your campus years, but you don’t want to be doing this every night anymore.
If you aren’t sure where to start, ask a friend who has mastered the art of creating delicious eats in the kitchen to give you a few tips.
Or you can get a few of your best pals together and take a cooking class.
If you’re cooking at home more, you’re more likely to eat healthier. Having a healthy and well-balanced diet will pay off for you in the long run.
6. Don’t drink excessive alcohol
In your 20’s, this rule certainly doesn’t seem to apply, but now you’ve wised up a bit and know it should.
Alcohol is like salt. It adds to a good meal, but it’s not wise or good for your body. It destroys your health and financial progress.
7. Start taking risks
It may get broken, but you may also find worlds of wonder that you never imagined possible.
Putting yourself out there in love can bring you the one you spend your life with or it can bring you great stories to tell down the road.
Either way, the risk is worth it. In the end, success is rarely counted by the money we have in the bank but by the riches of our hearts.
Your ability to party all night and still arrive at work the next morning is less impressive than it was at 22.
The above lessons involve developing good habits early on. In our 20s, we’re adjustable to what life offers, and if we create good habits right away, they’re much easier to maintain and build on than if we have to readjust our ways later in life and pay the price. Now you know!
The writer is a content writer at Career Point Kenya. For any related queries contact tobias@www.careerpointkenya.co.ke Or comment on the section below.