If You’re In Your Twenties, Get ‘What-Ifs’ Out of the Way

And prepare yourself for the life that follows.

Sergey Faldin 🇺🇦
The Post-Grad Survival Guide

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There are a lot of things people in their twenties get wrong about life. But the wrongest thing is to think that they need to ‘make it’ by a certain age, in terms of money or otherwise.

It kills my heart when I see my friends or people online talk about pressuring themselves to ‘become a millionaire by 25’ or ‘solve the money problem’ early.

These people focus on useless BS. And it shows how insecure they really are.

The truth about your twenties is that it’s a sacred time. Not because they are ‘roaring’ — (says the 22-year-old guy who goes to bed at 9 PM), but because they are essential to everything else that follows.

Like spring is the time when you prepare the soil for the upcoming harvest season, so are the twenties — a time when you prepare yourself for the life that follows.

And the best way to prepare for (hopefully) a long, vibrant and joyful life is to get ‘what-ifs’ out of the way. There is nothing sadder than watching a person in their middle ages and older trying to compensate for something lost in youth.

‘What if I traveled the world?’

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Sergey Faldin 🇺🇦
The Post-Grad Survival Guide

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