How to live to regret not 30 of anything
A Life / / December 19, 2019
Ryan Holiday (Ryan Holiday)
Developer media strategy, author of "How to solve the problem of strong people" and "Marketing Hacker".
1. Choose not something that will bring you more money, but what you learn something
Measure from this point of view, all career offers. You can make money in any job, but really learn something, get new experience and get better much more difficult.
2. Do not engage in nonsense
Great achievements are rarely the result of a short intense labor. Usually on them you need to work hard every day. And to do this, you need not waste time on nonsense. 30 years - that's a lot. Even one year - a lot. During this time, you can achieve a lot. Just every day to do a little more than yesterday.
3. Get a long-term relationship
Of course, the relationship - is the constant effort. Sometimes it will be difficult and painful. Many say that they would like to find someone someday get married, but they are doing this for? Enroll in Tinder? relations will beautifulIf you do make them so, not because you have magically meet perfectly suitable to you man.
4. Avoid toxic people
We become those with whom we communicate. We adapts to your environment, consider this when choosing friends and acquaintances. Interrupt communication with toxic people.
5. Keep a diary
Not to look back, and to encourage yourself to think about what you're doing now.
6. Do not make hasty decisions
When we fear, doubt, do not know what we want, we do not accept the best solutions. Take your time to better weigh everything as it should be, so you do not regret.
7. Define your world
Think about their views and values, write them down. You will be easier to understand themselves and decide how to deal with difficult situations. Always live according to his principles.
8. Exercise every day
Stop to think that sometime in the future you will take them, lose weight and lead yourself in good physical shape. Start right now. Let the exercise will be for you to mundane.
9. Do not compare yourself with others
What is the difference, that someone has achieved something before you do, you have done more? What is the difference that someone riches more than you? Do not look at other, Focus on yourself.
10. Be responsible
Insure your life, set aside money for unforeseen situations. Knowing that your loved ones will be provided if you suddenly something happens, you will feel calmer. Many people spend money on unnecessary things, that they can not afford, and then their failures blamed others. Do not repeat this mistake, treat finances responsibly.
11. But do not forget to take risks
Acting responsibly in some areas, you can venture into the other. For example, having a supply of money, you can get away with not interesting for you to work and try what long dreamed to do. To do this, you need to know what's important to you.
12. Do not travel aimlessly
Traveling just for travel now become a cult. But what about the fact that you were in Africa or Thailand? What have you learned there that we could not learn from other sources? What's so important you do? What have you been for the purpose? From aimless visiting different places wiser not try.
13. Study the lives of great men
Not to compare yourself with them, and to learn from them. I thought about doing a successful ambitious people, you can learn them lessons and avoid their mistakes.
14. Do not get me wrong, it's not worth it
We spend so much energy arguing and resentment, angry at other people, but it is absolutely not worth it. Instead of exclaiming "How dare they!", Stop to think that the people you need something.
15. Work
Usually, all repeat that before his death, you will regret that a lot of time spent on the job. But if you are proud of what you are doing, you think about the work with pleasure. But what exactly no one is happy before his death, it's how well they have learned to play video games, how many restaurants in the dinner, how much time spent on the policy debate. And these senseless, regrettable things very much. My favorite work is definitely not one of them.
16. Do not waste time hating
Hatred does not give you, will only make you miserable. Life is too short to spend it on malice. Try to find in people something positive, something for which you can be grateful to them.
17. Read more books
As you know, fools learn from their mistakes, and smart - to others. Reading and getting acquainted with the experience of other people, you learn a lot.
18. Remember that you can live the way you want
You are not required to comply with someone's ideas about how to live, what is considered important or how to dress.
19. Know what is important to you
You need to know why you do certain things, what you seek, what is important to you. Otherwise you will be endlessly compare yourself with others. It distracts from their own goals and make miserable.
20. Do not forget that just to learn - not enough
Not enough just to learn something, you need to knowledge linger in your head. Otherwise, training will be pointless. Capture and interpret new information. If you read a lot, do extract. Later on it will be possible to repeat the study.