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9 Lessons You Should Learn From My Mistakes
4 min readOct 8, 2023
- Finish What You Start — It is much easier to see things through now than to restart again and again and again. Not that starting over is a bad thing, but you will thank yourself for pushing through, even if it seems worthless in the end.
A lot of the things in life do not seem worth it when you are doing them, but in hindsight you often regret what you didn’t do. Think about where your life would be had you just finished half of all the things you set out to do. - Do Not Give Up On What Matters — Sure, give up on the path to your goal, but never give up on the goal itself. Find a different way to success, love, and happiness, but never give up on them entirely.
This goes along with the first point. Everything you started mattered to you at some point, which means there was a reason for it. Find that reason you started, hold onto it, and just give up on the particular path there, but not the path overall. - Be Brave — Be courageous enough to end a relationship when it is time, to push outside your comfort zone when you stagnate, and to stand up for yourself even when the rest of the world is against you.
Your biggest limiting factor right now is in how courageous you are. You are limiting your love by the lack of courage to have tough conversations, your financial gains by the lack of courage it takes to take calculated risks, and are limiting your…
