30 Life Lessons Learned by Age 30
Yes, I’ve taken the leap into the big 3-0! Time sure flies. Seems like just yesterday that I was in my mid teens and was horribly spoilt as a kid. By the time I was 22, I was a full-time student working on the final year of my Master’s degree, I was a resident assistant at college, AND I was doing a full-time job as a software engineer. All while trying to maintain a healthy social life. It wasn’t exactly the easiest life to manage then, but fortunately I made through all of that unscathed. Forwarding a few years to the present day, I’ve been blessed to have learned a few things over my professional and personal life that I figured I’d share here. Take it for what it’s worth:
- Rule number one: Never lose money. Rule number two: Never forget rule number one.
- Motivation comes in short bursts. Act while it’s hot.
- Do not demean anyone, no matter the situation. It might be sooner than you know when the roles might reverse.
- It takes years to build a reputation and seconds to ruin it. If you think about that, you’ll do things differently.
- Follow your own advice.
- It’s all about delivering. If you think you have a “vision”, but can’t deliver fast enough (remember, timing is everything!), surround yourself with people who can.
- No matter the consequences, those who are honest with themselves get farther in life.
- While it may not be so easy at times, always try to have a positive attitude towards everything.
- It’s not what happens to you, it’s what you do about it.
- People you care most about in life are taken from you too soon.
- Bad things do happen to good people.
- You should not compare yourself to the best others can do, but to the best you can do.
- It’s not what you have in life, but who you have in life that counts.
- No matter how much you care, some people just don’t care back. And it’s not the end of the world.
- Love has nothing to do with looks but everything to do with time, trust, and interest.
- I’ve learned that greed will bury even the lucky eventually.
- Chance is a gift, so act on chance when given the opportunity.
- People deserve a second chance, but not a third.
- Your actions now create memories you will reminisce and talk about in your elder years.
- Taking ownership of failure builds the foundation for success.
- If you never act, you will never know for sure.
- Risk comes from not knowing what you’re doing.
- If you don’t know jewelry, know the jeweller.
- You cannot make someone like you. All you can do is be someone who can be liked. The rest is up to them.
- There are people who love you dearly, but just don’t know how to show it.
- It takes years to build up trust, and only seconds to destroy it.
- Our background and circumstances may have influenced who we are, but we are responsible for who we become.
- Just because two people argue, it doesn’t mean that they don’t love each other.
- Two people can look at the exact same thing and see it totally different.
- Talking can ease emotional pains.


