Coli Oldheads (40+) what do you wish you did better in your 30s?

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Wish I joined habitat for humanity to learn how to build houses. wish I had the stomach for more advanced certifications.

Wish I invested in stocks sooner
Maybe you shouldn’t have wasted a decade dry humping men in spandex.

And you didn’t even get a black belt, bum ass nikka. You had a brown belt for 17 years. And you still call the cops when a possum gets in the garage.
 

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Thanks my mature Coli brehs :salute:

I'm proud to say I won't look back and feel like I wasted my 20s or 30s at all based on these responses. Career, money, and all that is great. Thank God. However....I definitely need to get back in my gym and clean eating bag...pandemic fukked up my whole vibe :snoop:
 

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Here something else that I forgot to mention: I wish I had put in the work to plan my social life earlier.

In my late 30s, I started spending 2-4 hours a week on learning what's up in my city. I live in Washington DC, so I got a subscription to the local magazine, The Washingtonian. I read the free culture weekly newspaper, The City Paper. I signed up for a blog called freeindc. Later, I added researching eventbrite and reading Time Out.

If you live in a major city, I strongly suggest that you sign up for your city's magazine, you will be shocked by all the stuff going on in your city. One of the best $15 investments you can make.

Now, I know all of the best happy hours, best rooftop bars, all of the live music spots, art events, festivals, and cool stuff going on in DC. This work has made my life way more enjoyable. I keep lists on my phone of all the interesting things, and place the events on my calendar so I don't forget about them.

The other thing I wish I learned earlier is that you really have to try something before you know if you don't like it. Being broad minded and curious has led me to do some things I never thought I would do.

Stretch out of your comfort zone. Go try new foods; listen to different music. I realized that I can enjoy genres of music that aren't my favorite live.

With all of the research that I do, I probably only get to 10-20% of the stuff I want to try. But, I have a great social life because I put in the work.

Chicks that go out with me know that they have no idea how this night is going to flow because we are going to be in some spots they never knew existed.
 

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You feel the same way in your 30s about your 20s. Hindsight is a MFer. :francis:

Youth is wasted on the young they say. :francis:
 

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I wish I would have never left Georgia and moved to the D.C. area at 29.

It drained my assets, put me in debt, stressed me out, and put my marriage in peril. Plus I was forced to raise my kids around a lot of c00ns and weirdos.

I didn’t really start to recover and rebuild until I moved back down South.
I don’t mind visiting other regions but the souf is like none other
:wow:

If I had a redo I would not have learn how to trade options,

find/research a high paying field or specific job then find the path on how to work your way to said job, try to maintain a good social and work life balance. Travel and see other places because life is short. Put in the work on being a better man then take care of those that look out for you.

Don’t fukk any chick raw that you won’t be ok with having your seed.

never stop learning and perfect your craft. Most importantly, have your heart open for love and be ready when you meet your soulmate
 
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- Purchased whole life insurance.
- Rented instead of buying a house.
- Did something for an internet business.
- Mined for cryptocurrency.
 

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Man now that you mention it, I have almost zero regrets from my 30's.
I had already started saving / investing in my 20's. Plus I had already peeped mf'ers starting to fall off around age 28 so I committed to eating well and staying in shape. So the benefits of those two combined choices in my 20's made my 30's very very easy.
I never wanted to get married or have kids so I never regretted staying single. Actually my only regret would probably be dragging out the relationship I was in. I should have ended that in my 20's.
 

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Here something else that I forgot to mention: I wish I had put in the work to plan my social life earlier.

In my late 30s, I started spending 2-4 hours a week on learning what's up in my city. I live in Washington DC, so I got a subscription to the local magazine, The Washingtonian. I read the free culture weekly newspaper, The City Paper. I signed up for a blog called freeindc. Later, I added researching eventbrite and reading Time Out.

If you live in a major city, I strongly suggest that you sign up for your city's magazine, you will be shocked by all the stuff going on in your city. One of the best $15 investments you can make.

Now, I know all of the best happy hours, best rooftop bars, all of the live music spots, art events, festivals, and cool stuff going on in DC. This work has made my life way more enjoyable. I keep lists on my phone of all the interesting things, and place the events on my calendar so I don't forget about them.

The other thing I wish I learned earlier is that you really have to try something before you know if you don't like it. Being broad minded and curious has led me to do some things I never thought I would do.

Stretch out of your comfort zone. Go try new foods; listen to different music. I realized that I can enjoy genres of music that aren't my favorite live.

With all of the research that I do, I probably only get to 10-20% of the stuff I want to try. But, I have a great social life because I put in the work.

Chicks that go out with me know that they have no idea how this night is going to flow because we are going to be in some spots they never knew existed.

that’s what’s up for real

everytime someone gets on that introvert shyt here I tell them they need to work on there social life
 
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