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8 Things I Would Do Differently If I Was To Start At 18 Again
3 min readJun 6, 2024
- Learning About Money — Money is the currency of this game of life, and if I do not know how to make it, I will always be limited. If I could redo everything I would learn about money, investments and finances much sooner.
- Taking The Courage To Invest — Not in any crazy schemes, cryptocurrencies, or other risky stocks, but rather, in long-term prospects. There are a few of them out there that do far better than most banks, but it would have taken courage to invest what little I had at times.
- Actively Improving Myself — Particularly in the areas of Charisma (Networking), Finance (as discussed above), Time-Management (it’s always the limiting resource) and 2 Skills related to my career (in my case: Writing and Self-Improvement). I would make a habit of working on each of these for at least 15 minutes a day to continuously grow.
- Clearly Identifying My Wants & Needs — A lot of my life I wandered around aimlessly because I never sat down to openly, honestly and freely ask myself what it was I wanted or needed. This made me make a lot of choices where I chose something worse in the stead of something better for me. Every time it ended in a regretful mistake.
- Finishing A Degree & Getting A Job — I quickly left my college life to start my own business, and while that was…
