21 Things I Would Tell My 21-Year-Old Self
#3 — As fast as you can make $1M you can lose everything.
#1. Smile. You’re alive and didn’t die from cancer. You will get a glimpse. It will be you, and it will be many people you know. You need one smack in the face with cancer to learn it’s lesson: you’re not here for very long. May as well make the most of it.
#2. Writing online is the best thing you will ever do. Writing is just looking inside your head, listening, and capturing your thinking with words. Those words have value to your life.
They have incredible, unimaginable value for the lives of people you will never meet. It could be a small number of people (like less than ten), but rest assured your writing has power. You write every day; you just don’t realize the importance of that practice yet. You will… one day.
#3. As fast as you can make $1M you can lose everything. It’s not time for you to learn this lesson yet. You need to be further into your 20s and a few more boozy nights around the sun before this will make sense. Your self-worth doesn’t equal your net-worth.
The speed of money accumulation can be fast. The opposite, where money leaves you, can be even faster. You will see that most of the people who are there when you’re doing well financially will disappear…
