1. Never looking at your budget and never making a budget is the exact same thing.
2. The possibility for greatness and embarrassment both exist in the same space. If youre not willing to be embarrassed, youre probably not willing to be great.
3. Feel no shame in seeking help from a counselor or therapist. We all have crap we try to wrap and hide under the Christmas tree. Get rid of it before it smells up your entire holiday.
4. All job listings on Craigslist lead you to a warehouse in downtown LA wearing something nice with shoes you can walk in.
5. Dont ever, ever check Facebook when youre:
A. Depressed
B. Drinking.
C. Depressed and Drinking.
D. Unemployed.
E. Anytime after 9:17 pm.
F. Struggling with being blessed with singleness while all your friends seem to be blessed with 2.4 kids and that blazing white-picket-fence shining with the glory of Jesus Christ himself.
6. All those amazing college friends you swore youd never lose contact with after college yeah, well, you might lose contact. Moving all over the country, getting married, having kids, all make that forty-five minute conversation with your sophomore roommate a little more complicated than it used to be over a game of Mario Kart. Making and keeping friends in our twenties takes intentionality.
7. Your twenties will produce more failures than youll choose to remember. The key is when you fail, dont begin calling yourself a failure.
8. Every break up has two break ups. Im no physicist, but this is a law of physics, of this I am certain. Yes youll have the first tearful Its over sitting in the front seat of your Honda or on a park swing. Then 1-2 months later after theres been talk, youll have the real breakup because she forgets to call like she used to or he checks out the waitress like hes a judge for Miss USA. And gird those loins because in the second break up there will be a lot more breaking.
9. The Freshman-Fifteen is nothing compared to the Cubicle-Cincuenta. Dont sit at your computer perched like a Roman gargoyle. Dont let office birthday cake be forced on you like a cigarette behind your middle school. Bust out before your butt does.
10. And yes, cubicles dont make sense to anybody other than upper-management. I would be willing to bet that only 3% of all Cubicle Americans actually have a positive outlook on life. And half of that 3% is stealing from their company.
11. If at some point between 22 27 you feel like youre six years old again, lost and alone at the San Diego Zoo (its a big-frickin-zoo), frantically searching for a familiar face hold tight, youre experiencing a bit of a Quarter-Life Crisis. Stay put. Pray a lot. And in no time someone will call your name across the loud speaker to tell you where you can be found.
12. Reckless drinking and reckless flirting have a direct correlation. Friends dont let friends drive, or flirt, drunk.
13. If you grew up going to church, at some point in your 20′s youll probably stop going to church. If you grew up with faith as a central part of your life, at some point in your twenties faith might move to the outskirts of town next to the trailer park and three-legged squirrel refuge. Your twenties are a process of making faith your own apart from your parents and childhood. Sometimes that means staggering away so you know what youre coming back to.
14. Dont ever begin dating someone you first met whilst in swimsuits. Doubly-dont if youre both in swimsuits whilst holding an alcoholic beverage.
15. Obsessive Comparison Disorder is the smallpox of our generation. 9 out of 10 doctors agree this disorder is the leading cause to eating a whole sleeve of Oreos while watching Real Housewives of O.C. Say no to obsessive comparison disorder before it starts. Remember everyones too busy putting a PR spin on their Facebook profile to care much about yours.
16. Life will never feel like its supposed to. Being twenty-something can feel like death by unmet expectations. However, let me be so brash to say that you are right now, at this moment, exactly where you need to be. But youll only be able to see that five years and thirty-eight days from today.
17. You might have your first kid and realize what its like to be young, a parent, and have no freaking clue what youre doing. And for the first time in your life, you also might actually understand your parents for the first time.
18. Marriage WILL NOT fix any of your problems. No, instead marriage will put a magnifying glass on how many problems you really have. We grow up carrying bags with our insecurities, fears, bad relationships, problems with our parents you name it. Begin to ditch these bags now. Newly married and living in a small apartment is no place to store a luggage set full of shiz.
19. An assortment of crappy jobs are a twenty-something rite of passage. Figure out what you need to learn there and learn it. If you dont, an assortment of crappy jobs might be your thirty, forty and fifty-something rite of passage as well.
20. Great ideas alone mean nothing. Your ability to persevere through 16 major setbacks, a lack of passion, forgetting why you started this great idea in the first place, and all the people who allude that your great idea is actually quite terrible well, that means everything.
21. The grass is always greener on the other side, until you get there and realize its because of all the manure.
.Most importantly work your butt off at work. The only thing stable in your 20's should be your job.Not your relationship.A relationship shouldnt be a word to you until 30. Shoot this applies to 30-35 year olds too.
