How to Reset Your Life When You Feel Behind in Your 20s

It begins with shifting your mindset

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Lately, I’ve been waking up anxious. I can’t help but stay in bed for an extra hour, reflecting on my 20’s as I’m turning 30 in a month. Feeling deeply dissatisfied with my life, I wonder how I allowed myself to skate through all of these prime years.

Many of us Millennials don’t feel like we’re where we should be in life. Things don’t always go according to plan — if we even had a plan in the first place. But it isn’t panic time yet. We’re still relatively early in the process.

If you’re going through an ‘early life crisis,’ the first thing to acknowledge is that you aren’t that far behind your peers.

You didn’t waste your 20’s on a meaningless career

Most 20 something-year-olds have yet to find their purpose. 8 out of 10 classmates I knew picked their college major out of desperation. The mantra “I knew I would be an actor when I was 5” is an exception, not the norm.

We believe our peers are lapping us. They’re buying homes, traveling to exotic countries, and blossoming in their careers, all while we’re still single and living in our parents’ basement. We’re ashamed. Thinking we’ll never catch up. But that’s not true. If you dig…