 Your youth is a time to thrive and actualize your dreams. Life is not always straightforward and you learn many lessons along the way. You can learn the value of gratitude from a time of need and forgiveness from depression. The journey is a long one. You have to brace yourself for what comes ahead. You have to be conscious too so you don't repeat lessons. They often come at a painful price. I am sure you do not want to pay repeatedly. One way to keep track is journaling or deep reflections. When you constantly ask yourself why you ended up with the unpleasant results, you'd be less likely to repeat your mistakes. Lessons can help you shape your life. The more lessons you have, the more your growth as a person. There are truly many things that will not make sense until you experience them. In today's video, I am going to share with you 9 lessons you must learn about life before you are 30. Everyone will not like you It is easy to strut around with pride and a sense of adventure when you don't know the reality of the world you live in. You may be hot faster than you can imagine if you don't learn the fundamental truth. Not everyone will like you. You are loved, no doubt about it. Just not by everyone. Some people can dislike you simply because you are successful. The problem is not that you are not hardworking. It may not even be the way you dress. It can simply be their own perception. Sometimes you represent some people's worst fear. You become who they want to be and they are scared and reminded of who they are becoming. Then they will hate you. Do not trust everyone with your plans. Keep important things to yourself. This can keep you safe from the prying ears of people who seek to destroy you. The less they know, the better. 2. You are not immune from failure No one is truly immune from failure. So people fail all the time. The only difference is their mindsets towards failure. When you are in your 20s and braze the idea that your plans may not always work out and resolve to follow through just the same. People who brave failure usually come out successful. No one gets it all right on the first try. According to former British Prime Minister, Sir Winston Churchill, success is not final. Failure is not fatal. It is the courage to continue that counts. You are young. You have a lot of time on your hands. Wouldn't you rather try our things and fail now and get it right later than wait when you are too tired to push? We never truly fail until we stop trying. 3. Money is not everything It is tempting to focus solely on acquiring as much money as you want. History has shown that man is insatiable. You will find no happiness along that path. Money can buy a company but not friends. It can buy a house but not a home. Money can buy you luxury but not peace. There is truly a limit to what money can do. Value your friends and your relationships. Money is alluring and can make one think it holds all the answers but in reality it doesn't. According to Business Insider, a recent study of over 300,000, 50% of people who have strong social ties have a 50% better chance of survival. Money can't care for your children or teach them the right values. Money can even make you lazy. While you need money to improve the quality of your life, you need care and affection from loved ones, you need your goals and your purpose to have a sense of fulfillment. Learn to live more. 4. The world does not revolve around you Some people think attention is their bet right. They are wrong. So many people that you will meet will be completely uninterested in you. It will amaze you just how invisible you are in the larger scheme of things. Be humble. Even if you are smart, be respectful to other people. We live in a rather small world. You will have your moments. In your 20s, you are fired up and ready to go. The tendency can be to get overconfident. Don't ever think because you accomplished one thing, you are going to be recognized or become more accepted. People have their lives and their personal problems to deal with. Focus on creating long-term value and do your best each day. In time, the world will come to know you. 5. The most insignificant things of people sometimes hold their answers you seek. When you are young, don't neglect people because of their background or jobs. Someone who is a janitor today can be a business owner tomorrow. People's real character is seen in the way they treat people that feel they are better than. Don't yell at people old enough to be your parents simply because you paid for a service. Be open to learning. You can learn from anyone at all. Having this mindset helps you avoid mistreating people or looking down on them simply because you think they can add no value. 6. Love is not a feeling. One of the major lessons you will learn before you age 30 is that love is very serious. Relations alone will not sustain your relationship. The feel-good thing in the relationship is bound to be tested by many events. If all you and your partner have is feelings, your relationships may not last. There are times when you will be too busy to hang out or even talk. There are times when your partner will want to be left alone and be given space. If the two of you don't share ideals and similar goals, the relationship will not have much to run on. If you say you love your partner, you should be willing to bear a level of responsibility in seeing the relationship work out. It also means that you are willing to contribute to his or her growth and personal development. Love isn't something to experiment with. You could get hot. If you are interested in someone, first find out whether they are interested aligned with yours. If not, they are likely to be a bad fit. 7. Take a break. Work can wait. You have to learn to rest. There is work today, there will be work tomorrow. There will always be work. Don't burn out trying to do all the work. More work will just materialize. And this can cause you depression. Take a deep breath. You are right. First, try decluttering your mind. Don't remember things that are not useful. We have a lot of memories, but not all of them are important. Walk very hard, but don't joke with your resting period. All emails can wait until the morning. No client has ever died because emails were not replied at night. You deserve to rest after a long day at work. You deserve an art to yourself for dinner or some time to catch up with your personal development. You too deserve to do the things that matter to you. 8. Everything big started somewhere. The courage to win is something gotten from taking baby steps. You may not always have it all figured out, but you should always be willing to start no matter how small. You never really know what might happen. Every big corporation you see today began from somewhere. They were not always that big. Amazon, Apple and Facebook are clear examples of this. Don't be discouraged by how much work you still have to do. Anything good takes time. Work hard, have daily targets and an overall vision. Give it time. You too will excel. 9. He who never stops trying ultimately wins. In your 20s, you need to learn great. You may have to learn that we cannot break true without a level of persistence. Life really is not fair. We will not be given a slice of cake simply because we said please. We have to demand it and insist on it before we get it. When you make up your mind, it helps you wear the dark moments when nothing will seem to work. An idea is not bad simply because one investor does not agree. There are a million other venture capitalists and evil startup crowdfunding platforms you can leverage. You should never throw in your towel until the game is over. You will never know if an idea will work or not until you try out your options. Even when an idea does not work, try again. When you do things repeatedly, you get better at it. You learn something new each time. It is better to fail at trying than to fail to try.