Why your 20s are so important and how to utilize (and not screw them);

1. Are you in your early 20s?
You did everything your parents advised?
You’re focused solely on getting your degree?
Then let me present to you…

2. 9 ways to screw up your future in your 20s
ByTamara Komatović
In cooperation with

3. 1.Do only what you’re supposed to do

4. • Others have planned best for you
• You’ll do what others tell you

5. • It’s easier and more secure
• Inborn human laziness
• Life on auto-pilot
NO one else cares
YOU are the master of your own destiny
Incorrect!

6. 2. Spend your 20s with same people

7. 20s are most important and powerful years of your life
Yet you choose not to meet new people

8. Comfort zone
Like-minded people
Big social circle
Challenges
Success
Realize this

9. 3. Complain, complain, complain

10. • Everything rotates around you
• You’re entitled to everything you want, because
You think:
Wrong!

11. Complaints
Personal effort
Instead

12. 4. Hang out with negative people

13. • With some people you feel great and
energized
• With some people you don’t feel so great
• Over time, you become like them
You can’t do it!
I can’t do it!

14. Negativity
Useful feedback you can’t accept at that moment
You can’t do it!
There’s a better way to do it…

15. 5. Do not travel

16. • You have everything you need in
close proximity to your campus
• You need a lot of money for traveling
• You’d like to travel the world, but don’t
want to make personal effort for it

17. Incorrect!
• Every trip is worth 100 books read!
• You can travel for free!
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• You need hardwork and patience – you might face
rejections, but shouldn’t be discouraged
Enjoy the adventure, you’ll be a new person afterwards!

18. 6. Seek an immediate gratification

19. • You always weigh the benefits you’ll get from
any opportunity
• You don’t accept unpaid offers – they’re waste of
your time and skills
Wrong!
• In your 20s priority is to learn, not to earn
• You’re missing valuable experiences

20. Benefits and rewards will come after
you invest hard work over many hours
AND
Then they will come in a greater abundance than the initial
amount you were looking for

21. 7. Do not read

22. • Everything you need is in your textbooks
• You just have to go through these and they will turn you
into an expert
• Instant success in life after graduation

23. Wrong!
Our world has changed a lot in past 10 years
Internet – a source where you can find all the knowledge quickly
and freely
Yours is to search and read!

24. 8. Do not do anything differently
Do not risk

25. Just follow the rules and
everything will be fine!
Do not try anything bold and
don’t stick your head out!

26. Bad advice!
• Times have changed, it’s a different world today
• No such thing as a „secure job“, or „degree that
guarantees everything“
„The biggest risk is not taking any risks.“ – Mark Zuckerberg

27. 9. Do not plan your future

28. • No need to plan anything, because these
plans always fail
• You rarely think more than one month in advance
• You’re too occupied with daily tasks to think
about future

29. You cannot hit the target if you don’t have it!
It’s impossible to plan in detail, but set
long-term goals and work towards them.
You’ll accomplish much more than you initially planned!

30. We gave you all the clues
It’s up to you whether you want to screw up your life
If not, keep these advices in mind and start now
You can make it!

31. Text and design byTamara Komatović
Based on an article from HeySuccess blog:
http://www.heysuccess.com/blog/view/9-ways-to-screw-up-your-future-in-your-20s-2