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Top 50 Tips in Your 20s
1. If buying a new car, make sure you a buy a used one.
It’s nice to finally be making some better cash in your 20s, but don’t go out and spend the extra money on buying a brand new car. Use the extra money you’d be putting towards a brand new car towards your savings; or invest it. After recently graduating from college I had to get a new car because my old one was going under. I bought a good used car. My friend who bought a new car, but the same model as mine was kicking himself when he found out he was paying an extra $200 per month while our cars looked the same. Get a good used car. Make sure to check the Kelly Blue Book to find the right price for a vehicle you are looking for.
2. Stay true to who you are and your values as it will be a compass.
If anything, your early 20s has probably challenged your beliefs & values as you’ve either ventured off to college or into the real world. Stay true to your beliefs and values because it is a part of who you are.
3. Stay close with friends who care, not just friends you have a good time with on the weekends.
You will find that as your friends start to graduate from college, get married, or move to different parts of the country that you may start to losing some friendships. Invest in friends who will be there for you when you really need it. I typically find who I should in by asking this question: “If I needed ‘such and such a friend’ to fly here for an emergency would they?” By asking this question, I find the friendships I should be investing in. You may find it disqualifies those friends who you party with on the weekends. They are lot of fun… but not always the best friends.
4. Live the life that you want to live, not the life that others expect you to live.
It seems like a lot of us in this generation have had many people looking over our shoulders telling us which direction we should go. Use your internal compass to dictate your future. Don’t let someone else dictate it for you.
5. Continue to pursue your dreams, even if you’re not currently living your dreams.
It can often be discouraging when you get those first ‘crap’ jobs in your early 20s. Persevere; you’ll get your dream job. You just may have to pay a few dues along the way. Enjoy the journey.
6. Take time to give back.
This can be very rewarding. Often times, when we give, it takes the attention off of ourselves for a moment. During these times where we decide to give back, we can gain some perspective on what really matters.
7. Step outside of your comfort zone. Be willing to learn and take on challenges you may not want to do.
It’s those times when we decide to step out of our comfort zone that real growth takes place, especially in your 20s where you have ample opportunities to take on new challenges.
8. Be thankful for what you have.
We are so often looking the things that we don’t have, that often times we forget about the things we DO have. Take a moment to be thankful for what you do have.
9. Seek advice from those who know. Don’t just take opinions from others who don’t have a proven track record.
Opinions are everywhere, and everyone is always quick to give theirs. But, you don’t always have to follow other peoples advice. Take advice from those who truly know what they are talking about. Those who have walked the walk and are not just talking the talk.
10. Start investing now.
This tip is stressed in almost every financial column you will ever read. Compound interest is amazing. So take advantage of it and start investing now. If you don’t know where to start, begin reading articles or seek help from a financial planner.
4 Ways To Deal With Negativity in the World
1) Be strong, don’t get paranoid
In order to not let the bad stuff and negativity get to you, you got to make the conscious choice to be strong and happy.
Don’t be paranoid that, for whatever bad things you heard or read about, it probably will not happen to you too.
Getting paranoid and expecting the worst to happen will simply add unnecessary stress to you and your mental state.
I find that many people think that they “should” expect the worst in life, just so that they can be prepared to deal with it when it actually happens.
Do you see that this ironically makes you somewhat negative already?
Instead, acknowledge that there’re indeed negativity in this world, then move on with your own life, work hard and do what makes you happy.
2) Focus your energy on helping then
Then focus your energy on trying to make this world a better place.
You can help in little or big ways. Every effort counts.
It’s very well known that if you’re feel down or even depressed, all you got to do is help others to instantly feel better.
Don’t think that you’re just “one guy” and that you can’t make a difference.
It’s not like you have to spend all your time doing volunteer work or start a movement, but the idea is to turn into a positive state of always wanting to help, which would definitely occupy your mind enough such that there’s no place for negativity to even come in.
Look at it this way: Sure, there’s negativity and bad stuff going on around in this world, but that’s when the good has a chance to shine.
It’s up to you take a side then.
Photographer Loves Math, Graphs Her Images
Here are some of the pictures the photographer named Nikki Graziano have captured. Graziano, is a math and photography student at Rochester Institute of Technology, she overlays graphs and their corresponding equations onto her carefully composed photos.
“I wanted to create something that could communicate how awesome math is, to everyone,” she says.
Graziano doesn’t go out looking for a specific function but lets one find her instead. Once she’s got an image she likes, Graziano whips up the numbers and tweaks the function until the graph it describes aligns perfectly with the photograph. See more of her Found Functions series at Nikkigraziano.com.
