9 Life Lessons I Wish I Had Known Sooner in Life

Everybody learns and grows at their own pace. Life always teaches us valuable life lessons. But Some learns them early in life and some later in life. These life lessons make our life better in one way or another. 

Here are 9 life lessons that i should've learned earlier in life:

1. Your mental health is more important than your career, money, other people's opinions, that event you said you would attend, your partner's mood, and your family's wishes, combined.

If taking care of yourself means letting someone down, then let someone down.

2. Don't attach yourself to a specific person, a place, a company, an organisation or a project. Attach yourself to a mission, a future and a set of values.

This is the best way to follow your heart and avoid getting attached to something that isn't right for you.

3. 98% of the harm is caused in your head, by you and your thoughts. 1% of the harm is caused by reality, what actually happens and the outcome. 

Most of the time the problem isn't the problem, the way you think about the problem is. You can fix most of your problems just by fixing your thoughts. 

4. If you want to feed a problem, keep thinking about it. If you want to starve a problem, take action. Problems feed off worry and action kills anxiety. 

5. Love is a form of intimacy and you can't have intimacy without vulnerability. If your past makes you avoid vulnerability, you will never have intimacy. 

Avoiding vulnerability feels like self-defence, but in the long-term it's self-harm. 

6. Nobody is as successful as Instagram makes them look and nobody is as pretty as filters make them seem. 

The only healthy, real and worthwhile comparison is you yesterday vs you today. You will make real progress when you focus on that

7. Whenever you feel like you are losing yourself, spend more time with yourself, and less time with other people.

8. Missing something does not mean you want or need it back.

9. Don't trust someone's words, if their actions don't align. Their words will tell you what they want you to think and their actions will tell you what they actually think.