What I learned then can save you years of regret and stress now.

I Looked Back at the Mistakes I Made in My 20s and Here’s How You Can Avoid Them

Mistakes are inevitable, but some are preventable.

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At 21 I thought I had life all figured out until 25 rolled around and I knew I didn’t. Now, at 30, I find myself wishing I could go back, not to relive the past, but to look out for the landmines that I could have avoided.

If you’re in your twenties right now, I hope you’re having fun. Seriously. I want that for you. But let me tell you a little secret: fun without foresight turns into a burden that follows you into your thirties and beyond.

These are the mistakes all of us made, me, my friends, my colleagues, cousins and classmates. And they’re common enough that they could practically be treated like a rite of passage. But they don’t have to be.

Let me show you how.

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