A letter to my 18 year old self!
A letter to my 18 year old self!
So I am officially closer to 35 than I am to 30 and like everyone else I have made mistakes along the way and learned 1 or 2 things the hard way (possibly slightly more than one or two if I am being totally honest!) Yet from each of those mistakes I have learned great things and in all honesty I am not sure that I would have changed them. I was reading an article this weekend about advice you would give yourself at 18 and it got me thinking, what advice would you give your 18 year old self? And how different is it to advice you would give your present day self?...
Dear Me at 18
1. Don’t take yourself so seriously – If you can laugh at yourself that’s half the battle of dealing with situations you get yourself into. (and there are many of those situations coming up!!)
2. How to control the impulse spending – Thinking it through and separating my needs from my wants would have been a useful tool 15 years ago!
3. All the things that you are doing that seem hard – they will be of use. All those deadlines you met, the stress you worked under, the exhaustion you suffered, the difficulties you overcame all gave you the skills and habits you need to function today!
4. Which leads me nicely on to All the things that are stressing you out now, in 5 years won’t matter – perspective is a great thing to learn!!
5. You're optimistic, confident, loving, passionate and hopeful at 18. Please try to stay that way. When you lose them it is a long road to get them back, don’t allow other people to knock them out of you!
6. Get an early start – Don’t waste time lying in bed, you do enough of that when you are ill, make the most of every single day!!
7. Keep learning – from every experience that you have learn something, if you have an interest in something go and learn about it. Keeping growing as person will help you to solve the challenges you face in life!
8. Stop trying to please everybody, trying to be all things to all people. Right now you have everything it takes to trust your instincts, and your instincts are good ones.
9. Everything that happens in the next 15 years will shape you, mould you, break you and strengthen you in ways that reading about them never will! An ounce of experience is worth a pound of words as they say! You have more potential in you than you can ever imagine – use it!
10. All the mistakes you are going to make along the way (despite the last nine points, well I know you are going to ignore them!) are all worth it! You love where you are now – the laughs, heartbreaks, stress, success, hard work, depression, hangovers, dramas, dilemmas, smiles – all worth it!!
Love K
Posted by Kate Sutherland on 08 March 2010 in : KDS Training, Personal Enhancement, Training employability
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