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24 Lessons Learned in 24 Years

I turned 24 years old a few days ago. I thought it’d be a good idea to share 24 lessons I’ve learned in the 24 years of my life which I realized I’ve never really done before. Normally, I look back on the things I’ve learned on a yearly basis or after the end of life stages such as graduating high school or college, but not looking back on my life as a whole on the things I’ve learned like this.

I came up with this list by looking through my success journal over the year in which I would write a quote of the day and things I learned that day. I also looked through my notes in which I write down my thoughts and any wisdom I come across, and things that I learn. I’ve also included principles that I’ve written about throughout my blog.

Many of these lessons I learned from my personal experiences, others’ experiences, quotes, articles, and books I’ve read, movies and videos I’ve watched, and things I’ve observed and noticed.
Here are 24 of the life lessons and nuggets of wisdom I’ve learned over the last 24 years of my life. Enjoy!

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The 3 Main Fundamentals for Personal Growth

It really doesn’t take much to get started with personal development. There are few required fundamentals for personal growth. You don’t need to have your life together (that’s kind of the point). Neither do you need to be super smart or outgoing. You don’t need to be motivated (which you shouldn’t rely on anyway). Heck, you don’t even have to believe in yourself or any of it to get started although you’ll probably have to eventually.

There are however three main fundamentals for personal growth to occur. Without these three things, personal growth is nearly impossible unless, of course, it involves realizing, accepting, and implementing these things into our lives.

If you are involved in personal growth, these things should naturally occur. The sooner you can use these fundamentals, the sooner and better you can start seeing personal growth in yourself and your life.

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The Best Books to Get Started With Personal Development

There are so many personal development books out there. It can be difficult to choose where to start. These five books are great to lay the foundational ground to get started with personal development. Even if you’re not new to personal development, these books are must-reads. This list includes older books that are classics and have stood the test of time as well as some newer ones with new discoveries and unique approaches to personal development.

Here are the five best books to get started with personal development with one honorable mention.

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26 Benefits of Personal Development

There is an endless amount of benefits to personal development and growth. While the journey can get bumpy and it’s not always positive — it can be hard, lengthy, and scary, and sometimes the objective is not always achieved, there are many skills and experiences derived from personal development that lead to a richer, happier, more fulfilled life.

Here are 26 of the most important benefits of personal development.

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Personal Growth 101: An Introduction to Personal Development

Personal growth, personal development or self-development is an essential part of a person’s success and happiness. Personal development is a very vast topic and subject area that consists of a multitude of subjects and topics. There’s a lot to it. Some of it can be conflicting too. And then some of it can seem like common sense.

Personal development consists of techniques and ideas to improve your life as well as inspirational positivity and quotes.

This article is designed to give you an introduction to personal development. Personal growth and personal development will be used interchangeably.

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What is Personal Growth? 389 People Define Personal Growth

Personal development. Personal growth. Self-help. Self-development. Self-improvement. Self-growth. Positive psychology.

Those are some of the many different phrases and words used to describe personal growth or whatever you want to call it.

But what exactly is personal growth?

I asked 389 people what is personal growth and what it means to me them.

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The Best Gifts for Self-Care, Personal Development, and Wellness

Want to give someone a memorable gift that will actually improve their life? Getting gifts for others can be difficult especially when you don’t know their size, their style, what exactly they want, or if they’ll even use what you do get them. The last thing you want is give them something meaningless that only add to their clutter, never gets used, or will end up in the trash. This article lists 10 different gifts for wellness, self-care, and personal development specialized for different needs, wants, and people.

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An Honest Review of Blog With a Full Time Job

A few months ago, I purchased Blog With a Full Time Job by Natalie Bacon. I had been following Natalie for a few months and was so exciting about her new course, I got it just two days after she launched it.

Time management is a struggle for me, so the title and purpose of the course was what made me interested in the course along with the course being unlike other blogging courses.

Blog With a Full Time Job changed the way I look at and approach blogging. It also helped me with having the right mindset, productivity, and time management for blogging. I’ve purchased a lot of blogging courses, and this one was like no other.

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Grammarly Review

Being a blogger and having perfectionism is a nightmare. There’s no one there to tell you what to get done or tell you it’s “good enough” or when to get it done. The only deadlines are self-imposed.

Thankfully, I have Grammarly. This writing tool has helped me so much with not just blogging, but dealing with and overcoming my perfectionism.

If you go check out my about me, you probably wouldn’t believe that writing that first post took me two years to write and finish.

Today, this is the 6th article I’ve written this week. I already wrote one earlier, and I’ve written one article for the past four days. And all articles have been over 1,000 words. Old me would be shocked and proud.

Grammarly is a must-have for every blogger. It saves me so much time and energy, especially with perfectionism.

Here’s what I love about Grammarly and how it’s helped me.

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  • Today ReachingSelf turns one!! ✨ ⠀ Thank you for all your support and for following me on this wonderful journey. ⠀ I am so happy and grateful for this opportunity and passion to help, teach, give and serve you! ⠀ I look forward to continue growing, creating and giving much, much more and better. 💕
  • Happy first day of summer! Can’t wait to have some fun and hit the beach 🌞
  • Anyone can become great, but not many will.
  • There are people who say that what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger and then there are people that state that that’s not true - you can experience traumatization, ptsd, etc. ⠀ The truth is that it depends. ⠀ It’s entirely based on how the person takes it. ⠀ A set of studies looked at people that suffered serious adversity and survived. They found three different types of people - those that were permanently dispirited, those who went back to normal, and those who used experience to make them stronger. ⠀ What this tells us is that you can make what happens to you to happen for you if you let it. You can make what doesn’t kill you make you stronger, but you can also have it do nothing for you or you can let it make you weaker. It not just about the cards you were dealt with, it’s about what you do with them. ⠀ What doesn’t kill doesn’t just automatically make you stronger just because you survived. But it can. Whether it does or it doesn’t lies on you.
  • Just keep going. Keep moving forward. Keep climbing. Never stop. You will get to where you believe you’ll be. 🧗🏻‍♀️
  • If you could choose to have one superpower, what would it be? ⠀ It’s an easy answer for me. A learning superpower. I’m not too sure what the specifics would be, but you could get crazy with it. ⠀ Think about it: If you could learn anything, you could do pretty much anything most people desire to do. ⠀ You could learn how to make money, you could learn how to be popular, make friends and find love. ⠀ You could learn to develop discipline and take action to achieve anything you want. ⠀ You could learn about the body and health to become super strong, healthy and fit. ⠀ You could learn how to build machines and technology that would make you be able to do pretty much anything a super hero could do. ⠀ You could learn the solution to a major world problem. ⠀ Instead of saving people from one big bad villain, you’d be saving people from problems that affect millions like cancer and poverty. ⠀ The crazy thing is that this power is available to us. Sure it’s not a super power in which we’re able to just scan a whole bookshelf and absorb all the information or be able to learn a superhuman speed. But we do have the power to learn nearly anything. Many of us just never use it because we’re too busy working hard. Or we think that the people that accomplish these great feats are just super geniuses. The only difference is that they are constant learners. They know the power and value of learning and education. ⠀ Learning is so underrated. All this talk of hustle and grind and working hard is prevalent all over social media. This is a bit silly to me when we could be working smarter instead of harder. This is the value of learning and education. ⠀ It allows us to accomplish things faster and better and not only that, it allows us to grow and advance rather than continue to stagnate with outdated and limited knowledge. Knowledge is becoming more valuable than money. Education and learning are what can make us become great and attain power in our lives.