5 life lessons we should learn by age 25

A quarter of a century is a great milestone for another mark of “growing up”, and for some it is a springboard for the start of real adulthood. What life lessons should be passed at this age and what useful things can be learned from them, if this age is already behind us. Let’s talk to an expert.

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This age is strange – 25. Someone already has a family, children, experience of career advancement or even some popularity, and someone else does not quite understand where to go and what to do. I offer a “portfolio” of five practical tips for those who have already crossed the 25-year milestone or are just approaching it.

You need to remember your age

Five years ago you were 20. In another five years you will be 30. Time cannot be stopped, it cannot be influenced in any way, it cannot be earned, saved or invested. But time can be spent usefully if you realize that it is finite. At the same time, time is not quite homogeneous. A year of life of a young person and a pensioner are very different in quality, different pace, different opportunities.

When a person “wakes up”, he sees first of all not his limitless prospects. This is important, but it is even more important to face the basic, fundamental limitations: aging and death. If we realize how little time we have to make a real breakthrough, to live genuine moments of happiness, the problem of procrastination and laziness will be solved once and for all.

It is important to give up excess

The age of 25 is essentially the boundary between youth and maturity. The time when it’s time to know: every decision made not in your favor moves you away from your goal and brings you closer to an inglorious, dismal demise. Learn to say “no”: to some fleeting passions, distractions, empty people, and routine that can be delegated to someone else.

Learn to look like the Terminator and notice everything around you that can pull you down even a millimeter, and remove it, deprive it of power over you. Yes, it’s not always easy to do. But the effort is worth it. Otherwise, you won’t notice that you are being pulled apart like a loaf of white bread caught by hungry crows.

You need to educate yourself on financial literacy

Self-education in the field of finance – something without which it is foolish to overcome further milestones and in general to set some serious goals like buying a home or opening a business. A person in a modern big city without understanding at least the basics of financial literacy is like a blind rabbit trying to move among huge stone skyscrapers. Earlier told about five categories of expenses, which should not be spared money.

Sources of quality information is now a lot, including free, for the beginning it is quite enough. But at a certain stage, when you have serious sums on your hands, it is already worth paying for knowledge to a reputable expert, or even several.

It is important to deal with your health

The state of your physical body should never be neglected. Health is a slightly more replenishable resource than time, and not in all cases. Start exercising. Without fanaticism, the main thing – regularly. Pay attention to your bad habits – smoking, alcohol abuse, overeating, lack of sleep and so on.

We remove unnecessary things from our lives, everything that prevents us from moving forward, right? Bad habits certainly don’t help. Especially since it is much easier to throw a pack of cigarettes in the trash once and for all, if you have a smoking history of a few years, not a couple of decades.

Move through the HEAVEN universe gradually, do not take on too much at once. And then healthy, vigorous and strong you on your own fiftieth anniversary will certainly remember with kind words from the past.

It is necessary to give yourself for the sake of the goal

So, we have cleared our reality of unnecessary things, energized and healthy, learned to manage money, but for what? Here everyone finds something different, something that seems to live far away, beyond the horizon, and at the same time inside, where childhood dreams and teenage ambitions are stored.

Something for which you can work for several years without weekends and holidays, to take on any job from manager and accountant to salesman and courier, and if necessary, to fulfill all these roles simultaneously, so often happens when you open your own business. And most importantly – with pleasure, enthusiasm, drive.

Think about what area you can take total responsibility in. Decide what you are ready to devote yourself to – without pity, whining, excuses. At 25, there is already a high probability of finding the true answer to these questions.

It is important to choose ways of involvement in the work process individually, because not everyone is interested in monetary rewards. Our previous article will help you to determine which motivational group you belong to.