Everyone makes mistakes in his life.
I’m a student in my 20s, always looking forward to learning something new and useful. This time, I want to tell you some of the mistakes I’ve learned to avoid.
So, stop wasting any more of your time, and let’s begin. Here are the mistakes I’ve made and learned to avoid.
1. Telling everyone your plan
Telling your friends what you want to do and asking for advice isn’t a mistake, but it can be a dangerous path to follow. Talking about your plan could become a form of procrastination so strong that you could become an ‘all-talk, no-action-person.’
All this because talking about your project releases a lot of dopamine (the reward molecule), making you feel satisfied even before starting to work on your idea.
2. Lacking a routine
If you think that by not having a daily routine you’ve got more control over your time, I’m sorry to say you couldn’t be more wrong. In my experience and based on the experiences of most of my friends, people without a routine are the ones struggling the most with ‘having enough time’ and getting results in what they’re doing.
So start organizing your time, I’ll talk about how I’m organizing mine one day, but for now, I recommend starting low and getting more organized as time passes by.
3. Choosing comfort
If you stay in your comfort zone for too long you’ll never be able to get out again.
Ok, maybe I’m being a little dramatic, but seriously, the more time you spend in your comfort zone, the harder it’ll be to get out.
My advice to get out of your comfort zone is to put yourself in discomfort without thinking about it.
Like Nike says: “Just do it”.
4. Ignoring your health
I know a lot of people who believe that they don’t need to eat healthy or keep themselves in shape.
Let me explain this to you: the healthier you are, the closer you get to your peak performance.
Bonus tip: working out makes you feel more confident and reduces stress.
5. Following your friends
Do you know anyone who’s where he is because he just followed somebody and now he or she is doing something that has nothing to do with him or her?
I do and the thing that I’ve learned from them is probably the simplest, but at the same time is one of the most useful:
Learn to think for yourself.
Stop worrying about what others think about you, start knowing yourself better, and start doing the things you love.
6. Looking for shortcuts
I think that everybody did this at least once.
If you waste your time looking for shortcuts you may even find them.
But let me tell you this: most of things don’t have any shortcuts, you just need to focus on them and work out the problem.
If you start doing this you’ll get better every time you sit down and start working on your problems, until, one day, you’ll get so good that you’ll need half of the time you used to need when you started.
That’s the only shortcut in life: just work.
7. Not investing in yourself
You’re the best thing in your life.
You need to love yourself and give yourself all the time and the resources you need.
So I recommend investing in good mentors and coaches to learn the skills that you want to learn.
Focus on yourself.
8. Lack of resourcefulness
This is the last and most abstract point of this article, and it’s about what I call: ‘Victim mentality.’
Lots of people that I know, and even myself have said this at least once:” I wish I could do this, but I don’t have the time/the resources/the experience/whatever”.
What I suggest to do about this is easy: stop lying to yourself and get rid of your victim mentality.
If you have an idea, a passion, or want to do anything just put yourself into it: the internet is full of free courses where you can find almost everything, if you need money to start your business/idea why don’t you start a side hustle or a part-time job?
You can learn every skill in about 20 hours, I’ll teach you how in one of my next articles so follow me on Zordy to don’t lose anything.
I hope you enjoyed reading this. Let me know in the comment if you found this useful and what you think about those mistakes.
I hope you’re having a good day.
