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21 Important Lessons I Learned In My 30s
4 min readAug 31, 2024
- Life Goes On — No matter what happens, how bad things get, or what mistakes you make, life always goes on. There’s only one end; everything else is a stepping stone.
- Success Is Not Important — Happiness is. You can lead a very happy, yet simple life, and that will be greater than any successful one without joy. Find out what brings you joy, not what brings you success.
- Get To Know Yourself — You have to spend 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year with yourself for the rest of your life. That’s a long time not to know what you like, love or who you are dealing with.
- Never Lose Yourself — It takes a lot to learn to love yourself, and you can lose that very easily being around the wrong people or the wrong situation. Make sure to take care of all those things you love about yourself.
- Allow Things To Suck — Life will not always be great, ever. No matter how good things get, they will always suck sooner or later again. Allow yourself the room to cry, to be angry, afraid, frustrated and stressed. It’s okay to feel.
- There Is No Rush — Always take as much time as you need to feel, to learn, to grow, or to stay stuck too. You live life on your timeline, not anyone else’s. Besides, what matters is not what you missed, but what is still ahead of you, so focus on the time you…
