- Discover who you are. You are your hopes and dreams, your fears and your nightmares. You are your stumbles and falls and the laugh who share with your mom. You are your sleepy eyes at three in the morning and the ambition you get from your dad. You are your passion and your heart and it will lead you to your destiny.
- Build your support system. Surround yourself with people have the same creative quest as you and fully accept your vision.
- Purge your social circle. Everyone is not your friend and sometimes friendships end. We all have different schedules; true friends understand and adjust. The average person has three to seven close friends. Start evaluating.
- Develop a healthy relationship with your parents. Because at the end of the hurricane we call our twenties, we'll discover that our family has been our anchor.
- Travel. "How can I travel when I have like two dollars in my pocket?" Start small. Check out some small towns or neighboring cities as day trips. and as time and money allows, branch out. Traveling isn't always about going to some far away place. It's about experiencing something new.
- Keep learning & try new things. Even if you've graduated, take a class. learn a new instrument. Take up a new hobby. anything to keep your brain going.
- Build your resume/portfolio. Edit (or create) your resume. Include educational updates, any job/volunteer experience, any honors/skills/certificates, etc.
- Develop a healthy lifestyle. The lifestyle you create in your twenties is the lifestyle you'll carry on for the rest of your life. So go easy on the pizza and beer and consider water and a gym membership.
- Give back & volunteer. Destroy the stereotype that Gen-Y is entitled. Volunteer at a hospital or a nursing home or a local event. Read to a group of preschoolers. anything to express gratitude to your community.
- Get experience. Shadow somebody. Visit your dream job. Talk to someone in the field you are interested in. Because the smallest spark of interest can set your world ablaze.
- Clean up your online life. Trash the profanity and the drunk photos and the twerk videos. Or at least establish a professional profile. I've learned that employers really do check out your online life.
- Grow in your faith. We all believe in something,
- Plan out your life. The cursed words for a twentysomething. Breathe, guys. Decide your absolute dream job (if you don't know, find your passion. if you don't have one, well you've got some soul searching to do.) Figure out the costs, time and preparation it takes to get there. Write it down and boom, you have your life.
- Simplify. Remove any unnecessary clutter from your life, physical or mental. clothes, books, people. if you haven't used it in the past three to six months, trash it.
- Learn to cook. [http://www.buzzfeed.com/emofly/foods-everyone-should-learn-to-cook#.vhbKvk6Ww] You're welcome, friends.
- Improve your wardrobe. We're adults now. T-shirts and jeans aren't gonna cut it. Invest in at least five pairs of dress pants and dress shirts. (You can never go wrong with black, white, navy, brown and gray.)
- Decide what you want relationship-wise. If you want to be single, be single. If you want a relationship, give it your all. If you want a fling, make sure it's mutual.
- Practice forgiveness. The past is the past. It has made you who you are. Love & forgive others. Love & forgive yourself.
- Remember your roots. Visit your hometown and remember where your story began.
- Thank your influences. We are who we are because of the people and things we've encountered. Let them know that.
- Tell your story. Today, seven million people will experience the world in a different way. How will yours go?
Run a little faster. Laugh a little harder. Jump a little higher. Scream a little louder.