23 Things You Should Start Doing Now To Avoid Later Regrets

1. Health — Build healthy habits early on to slow the effects of aging.
2. Prioritize — Time goes by very fast, make sure you know what is worth spending the most time on.
3. Asset Building — You reap only that which you sow.
4. Saying what’s on your Mind — “Those who mind don’t matter, and those who matter don’t mind.” — Bernard Baruch
5. Willpower Over Emotions — Do not allow your dreams to depend on whether you feel like working in the moment.
6. Develop the mindset that you are too old not to start — Right now you can still waste time, but soon you will have to work, because not living your dream life is not an option.
7. Let go of your Past — Nothing you have done or was done to you matters anymore, what matters is what you do today.
8. Be Present — Life moves very fast and if you don’t watch out you’ll miss the moments that take your breath away.
9. Defend your Beliefs — It does not matter who or what goes against them, if you believe in something you fight for it, even if no one is there to see you do so.
10. Invest — Overall, it’s time you started to invest in your life and started to take what you do and who you are seriously. Enough idling around. Commit to who you are, invest in yourself and live.
11. Learn to say ‘No’ — No is a powerful word. Use it more often, especially with yourself.
12. Start Investing — Money accumulates a little over time, not a lot at once.
13. Define your Goals — If you do not know where you’re going you’ll miss getting there.
14. Learn to Love Yourself — Spend some quality time every day just with you. You have to bear your own company 24 hours a day. It’s better to take care of that relationship.
15. Explore — There’s a lot to the world that you have yet to see. Get out of your own comfort zone and out of your own bubble a little bit. Be brave, be bold, and try things out.
16. Follow your heart, but let your brain guide the way — Your heart is usually in the right place, but it’s your mind that is smarter about getting there.
17. Stay humble — You do not know everything and never will. Be humble enough to be open-minded.
18. Start your Days Strong — It’s by far the best way to set a theme for the day.
19. Take Responsibility — In the end you will be the only one that has to come to terms with how you lived. Remember that when listening to other people.
20. Develop a Great Routine — “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” — Will Durant
21. Learn from the Failures — They are far more abundant than the successes but can also be far more powerful if you let them.
22. Take your Time — You still have a lot of years ahead of you; relax. Not everything has to work out right away.
23. Take life with a sense of Humor — Not everything is as serious as you make it out to be.

Originally published at Quora.com