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20-Something Struggles
Your twenties can be the most challenging years of your life. It can also be the most enjoyable time in your life journey. Being independent, choosing a career, discovering who you are and where you fit in in this world. Having a social life, figuring out how to budget. Trying not to disappoint your parents, mentors, or yourself. And be happy at the same time. Let me put you at ease. Nobody has everything under control in their twenties.
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Priorities, it’s Obvious but not Easy
We need to do whatever it takes to be truly content and enjoy our lives.
Prioritizing my Future-self
This year I have made a major mind shift on priorities. I used to prioritize things like work, studies and courses, and my photography. This means that I would put most of my energy and focus on these aspects of my life, but slack in things like health, mental health, and fitness. I didn’t ignore them and they were important to me; I just wasn’t paying as much attention. I am a tremendously conscientious person who takes my duties very seriously, too seriously sometimes. So, when I set out my crammed schedule, things like exercise and preparing healthy meals flew out the window first.
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How Not to Let Emotions Rule Your Life
Emotions are something that we’re all born with. Some of us, however, may experience a greater array of them throughout the day and base more of our decisions on how we feel. Maybe you’re one of those people and maybe this is something that you would like to change. Or maybe you realize that you base most of your decisions on how you feel but don’t see why this could be a problem.
Let’s start with the results of allowing your emotions to rule your life.
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My Life Skill Journey
“What an amazing, positive, scary, real, and exciting up, down and in circles roller coaster of a journey these last two years have been. I could never have imagined what was in store for me.”
- Monet Bruwer
We asked Monet some questions about her experience in the Skills Gap Year as well as the Skills Development program the year after that. Here is what she had to say in her own words.
Why did you decide to join the Skills Gap Year?
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Letting Go
Incidents or traumas could have a massive impact on how we perceive the world and respond today. This we know. But, sometimes, it’s also what we perceive as ‘small’ incidents, the ones you would remember and then discard just as quickly because they seem too insignificant to affect you now. What I have learned is not to downplay things that seem to pop up now and then. If there’s a bee, there’s a nest. And, if it’s affecting you now it’s important enough to pay attention to.
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Taking the 7 Habits into Adulthood
Back when I was in high school, I read the book The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teenagers by Sean Covey and this is one of the books that had the biggest impact on my life. I rented my first copy from the library and then eventually bought my own one shortly after.
I wanted to make a change in my life at that point and believed that this book was the answer. Now, I’m not sure it was this belief or just because this book is so amazing, but it did change my thoughts and in the end my life in a drastic way.
But I felt that the principles in that book aren’t just useful as a teenager, but habits that ought to be taken with you into your adulthood.
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Why is Change so Scary?
A new job, a new school, new friends, or a new town: all of these things are exciting. They can, however, also be scary. How do you settle in? How do you adapt and be happy with the change?
We crave predictability and comfort but with change follows the unknown and discomfort. Every time things change, we learn to navigate through it, adapting quicker and quicker each time.
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Why it’s OKAY that you don’t have Everything Figured Out Yet
When I left high school, I experienced a lot of pressure to have everything together. Everyone around me seemed to know exactly what they wanted to do and where they were heading with their lives from the moment they could count to 10. I acted like I did, but I honestly had no idea what I was supposed to do with my life. And since I’ve been out of school for five years… I still have no idea what I’m doing!
Maybe you feel like this, or maybe you know someone who has experienced this. Well, I’m here to tell you that this is completely okay and pretty normal.
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Read more: Why it’s OKAY that you don’t have Everything Figured Out Yet
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- Contentment
- The Effort of Success
- Fill the GAP with a Skills Gap Year
- Putting a Year Aside
- Invest in Yourself
- The Highly Sensitive Person
- How to Make Lasting Changes
- 5 Main Reasons You Might be Stuck in a Rut
- Feeling Stressed?
- Unlocking Fulfillment: 5 Key Elements for a Richer Life Experience
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- Get in the swamp
- 3 Essential Skills to Succeed in Life
- Why Life Skills?
- Managing Emotions for a Happier Life
- Why Therapy Doesn’t Work
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