There’s a lot of skills many of us wish we would have learned earlier, but it’s either because we never got introduced to them or we never understood the importance of them. These essential capabilities span from mental to social to fitness and finally financial skills, each building the foundation for a more empowered life.
Learning anything fast transforms how we approach new challenges. If you feel like you’re not a fast learner, what helps is using things like active recall, watching tutorials or YouTube videos, and constantly trying new things. With anything, you’ll learn a lot quicker by doing through experiences rather than memorize it.
The art of delayed gratification stands as one of life’s most powerful principles. It’s very easy to chase that instant satisfaction because we are feeling how we’re feeling right now. But often times that comes at the sacrifice of your future self. Delayed gratification is doing the opposite, essentially putting more effort and suffering right now to make it easier for your future self.
Your routines shape your results. Once you have a good morning, daily, and night routine, you feel like you’re in control of everything and on track to achieving your goal. You don’t need a 10-step checklist. Just two to three priorities you want to do every single day.
When stress hits, an argument, a job interview, your reaction matters more than the situation. In those moments, you need to learn to pause, breathe, and act with logic rather than letting your emotions take over. If you act out of impulse, you’ll end up making a decision that you will later regret.
The difference between someone that accomplishes their dreams and ambitions versus someone that doesn’t is simply taking action rather than always thinking about it. The reality is you will never be fully ready. You need to just start and figure it out as you go.
People often link being lonely with being alone. But in reality, being lonely is not being happy alone. You need to learn to be happy in your own presence. Learning to enjoy your own company makes you more grounded. At the end of the day, it’s all you have.
Small talk is the beginning to every interaction you will ever have, big or small. Whether it’s meeting your future boss, whether it’s meeting someone you’re going to start a business with, or whether it’s meeting a new friend. What helps with being good at small talk is simply being curious and observant.
Storytelling emerges as a skill you will use constantly. It’s the best way to get people’s attention, whether it’s with sales, whether it’s with talking to people or making new friends. The key is that no matter how excited you are about the plot of the story, you have to build anticipation before getting to the plot.
You’re going to deal with confrontations in the workplace, in social settings, in relationships, and your reaction matters the most. You don’t want to be the type that raises their voice, loses their temper. You want to be able to stay composed. Eliminate your ego from the situation and deal with it straight on.
Social cues require constant attention. You need to learn how to read body languages, tones, energies, how people are acting, replying to you, and be able to extrapolate and understand how people are feeling in social setting. Is it a playful setting where you can make more jokes? Is it a serious setting?
If you’re serious about fitness, if you’re serious about getting in shape, 80% of your results is your diet and what you put into your body. In order to keep up with that, be consistent with it, you need to know how to cook meals that taste good but are also healthy for you.
You can’t just do random workouts and expect to see results. Are you trying to bulk, cut, get stronger? Your workouts should match your goal. Proper form becomes essential because you’re young doesn’t mean you’re invincible.
We glorify grinding, working hard, and staying up late. But sleep, your recovery is literally where your body and your brain recovers. You need it to best perform throughout the day. First impressions matter through grooming and self-care routines.
You can’t just go hard forever. In order to perform at your best, you need to have times where you recharge. You need to be able to read yourself and understand when you need and when you deserve some time to recharge for yourself.
Financial awareness starts with tracking spending. With Apple Pay or tapping your card, it’s so easy to spend money until the end of the month comes, you see your credit card bill and realize you spent a lot more money than you would have wanted to.
Eventually, if you want to loan money for anything, to buy a car, to buy a house, to make an investment, you need to have a good credit score. You have a lot of things around your room that are collecting dust that you can exchange right now for money.
We are living in a digital age and right now the social media industry is becoming a multibillion dollar industry. There’s so many outlets within it to make money online. Everything in life is negotiable. Whether it’s pay, deals, rates, relationships, you just need to be willing to ask to make an offer because what’s the worst case scenario? You simply get a no.
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