 7 Mistakes You Need To Avoid In Your 20s Your 20s is a time of self-discovery, a time when you make certain big decisions that will have great impact in the future, for instance, career choice, financial status, and stability. The good thing about this is that it is a time in your life where you are allowed to make mistakes while trying to figure out what you want to achieve with your life because you can recover easily from most of those inevitable mistakes. Your 20s are also a time to experiment, fail, and then eventually succeed. But for this to happen, certain poor decisions have lasting effects that can affect us badly and certain mistakes you must avoid. As much as it is a time to explore and discover oneself, knowing certain things and restraining from some other things will go a long way in determining the kind of future you want for yourself. In this video, we will be sharing with you 7 Mistakes You Need To Avoid In Your 20s. If you're new here, consider subscribing so that you won't miss other interesting videos like this. 1. Peer Pressure Imagine a group of friends who spend most of their teenage years together, and then school, job, and family came along, making a huge difference between how they now see themselves. At this stage, they begin to compare themselves to their friends, and getting carried away working tirelessly just to meet up with their friends and make sure they get everything their friends have no matter what it takes to achieve that. Also, thanks to the internet, everyone is trying to impress their online friends. In fact, not only are they trying to impress them, they try to pass a message that they are bigger than the rest of them, always trying to portray a perfect life. The truth is that no one has everything completely figured out. Even your friend that looks perfect still has some unveiling to do, and still hopes to achieve one thing or the other, and still views the rest of the world has to be better in certain areas. So, in the end, your effort to prove it to them that you have a perfect life is useless. Why not spend the rest of your life in pursuit of true happiness in that case? 2. Poor Save In Habit According to a recent study from Bankrate, out of 1,003 participants, it was discovered that 69% of them between the ages of 18 to 29 had no retirement savings at all, mostly because the idea of retirement seems far away. The best time to imbibe a saving culture is when you are in your 20s with very little responsibilities to shoulder and fewer financial commitments. When you start saving early, you'll have mastered the art of saving before you get too involved with so many financial commitments and use it as an excuse not to save. 3. Undefined Goals Most people do not know what they want to do with their lives. They don't know the career path to choose, and for those in their 20s, it can be quite challenging, especially because this is a phase of transitioning from a teenager to an adult. Before now, all the big decisions that involved your life were made by your parents and guardians. Now, however, you have to make these decisions yourself. Even though you are going to discover a lot as your journey, it is still important to set defined goals that will help guide you and make wise choices. You can start by reading about these things and acquiring skills that can help you develop yourself better. 4. Stick into Wrong Relationships The people you hang around will determine the future you will have if you constantly hang around sad people and people that indulge in self-pity all day, all year, it will soon become your reality as well. Also, don't fall into the trap of thinking that you are still young and you've got a lot of time on your hands, so you can do whatever you like. Spend all your time hanging out and partying with people and don't have a vision for your life. You shouldn't also not stick to a bad relationship because of the money, sex and other benefits you may be receiving at the time because in the end, you'll find out that you've wasted the reasonable time of your life doing nothing useful. 5. Thinking That Education and Talent Are the Only Ingredients for Success Success requires more than education and talent. It requires hard work, diligence, commitment, consistency, self-improvement and growth. And also learning from your mistakes. Calvin Coolidge, an American politician and lawyer who served as a 30th President of the United States, said that nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not. Nothing is more common than on successful men with talent. Genius will not. Unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not. The world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. Don't sit back and expect things to fall in place because you have one of the best certificates in the world and talent to back it up. No, it's a mistake that might cost you a lifetime to fix. So, start now, learn, improve yourself, work hard and commit to success. 6. Trying to Please Everyone Don't fall in the trap of thinking that you have to please everyone. Starting from your boss, coworkers, clients and everyone else around just to earn yourself a spot in their hearts. Not everyone will like you, no matter what you do. Even if you are the nicest person that leaves, so why bother about people who don't even care about you? Live to satisfy yourself alone. 7. Not paying attention to your health Take care of your health. It will stay with you for the rest of your life. Because your success or failure depends heavily on it. Beth Burrs said self-care equals success. You're going to be more successful if you take care of yourself and your healthy. Also according to Eva Longoria, an American actress, producer and businesswoman, your body is a vehicle of your emotions and a vehicle of feelings and a vehicle of whatever you need to get done in life. And you've got to take care of that vehicle. Avoiding these mistakes will help build growth mentally and develop right habits for success. Thank you very much for watching our videos. We'd like to give you another interesting video for you to enjoy next. But before then, our team will be very happy if you can like this video and share it with your friends on social media. If you're new here, don't forget to subscribe so you won't miss other interesting videos like this. Look at your screen now to see two other videos we handpicked for you to enjoy next. We love you.