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Many things have been done that people have come to regret later in life. The bulk of these things were done while they were in their 20s and lacked the simple concept of taking on responsibilities. They also wish they could turn back the hands of time and do things differently, or at least better. Time and tide, though, do not wait for anyone. So, now that it has happened, the only option, if there is one, is to either find a way to undo the aftermath of their decisions or live with the consequences for the rest of their lives. As a consequence, I've assembled a list of 21 mistakes you can stop right there if you're in your twenties in order to start living the good life… 21. Failure to look after yourself Everyone knows that health is wealth. Your wellbeing must take precedence. Most people in their twenties, on the other hand, neglect their wellbeing and concentrate on eating whatever they want, believing they are living life to the fullest. They go to the bar, smoke, drink excessively, and prefer hanging out. They consume foods that are high in fat, sugars, and protein. They are unconcerned about the effects of continuing to exercise in order to stay fit and burn excess fat and sugar. Hypertension, obesity, diabetes, cancer, and other health problems are often the result of these factors. And who says these diseases can't impact you in your thirties? 20. Making the wrong friends Some twenties assume that everyone can be their mate. One thing we must remember is that our friends are among the people at the very top of the influence ladder. They have an impact on us in ways we never imagined and have an impact on the choices we make. If one gets interested in the wrong company, his friends are likely to influence him. This has a life-altering impact and will remain on his record for the rest of his life. In their 20s, some people become hardened criminals, drug addicts, alcoholics, smokers, and so on. They may think they can improve when the time is right, but they may not be able to control the consequences of their decisions. I used to have a friend, he was a high achiever, he had big things going for him, All ‘A grades’, he was a top student, but at some point he got involved with the wrong crowd, made the wrong friends, they did drugs, so did he, they went to crime, and so did he, and that ruined his life. Jim Rohn said “You are the average of the 5 people that you hang around with”. So remember choose your friends wisely. 19. Rushing to get married Don't get us wrong: We think it's fantastic! Everyone wishes to marry and is on the lookout for a suitable life partner. When you're in your 20s, you might think that if you don't get married right away, people will abandon you. And, seemingly out of nowhere, a promising young man or woman with your basic qualities appears and begins talking about marriage. Nothing else matters at the moment, and you aren't ready to consider the possibility that your career will end after you marry. Then you get married, only to discover that it was one of the most costly decisions you've ever made. Don’t rush, play it steady. 18. Families being overlooked Just your family will be there for you when everyone else has left. They've been your closest friends since you were born, and they'll always be there for you, no matter what. They can be irritating at times, especially if they start prying into your personal affairs and impose restrictions on your liberty. They were, however, well-intentioned. In your twenties, you're busy with school events, attempting to concentrate on love, keeping a social life, and so on. Your goals should not be set without considering your family, but it seems that people in their twenties devote more time and energy to other aspects of their lives while neglecting their families. Here’s what we learnt - People in their forties and fifties when asked about one of their biggest regrets: many told us it was not spending enough time with their families and loved ones when in their twenties. Spend those precious moments with your family. You will appreciate this advice. 17. Impulsive buying The word "impulsive buying" refers to the act of purchasing something you see. You may feel like the best thing to do in your 20s is to spend every penny that comes into your hand because you have few or no financial obligations. You want to buy the most up-to-date items, have the most up-to-date smart phones or gadgets, go to clubs, eat out, and have a good time. It does not occur to you that saving is a must and can be extremely beneficial in the most bothersome times of your life. It is highly recommended that you should start saving and investing in your twenties. What's more, guess what? When you're in your thirties, you'll look back and be thankful. The book ‘The Richest Man In Babylon by George Clason’ is a great read about saving money and accumulating wealth in your 20s. 16. Doing a job you despise It is sometimes unavoidable to work in a position that is a carbon copy of your ideal job. With the current state of the economy everywhere, finding a dream career can be daunting at times. When you get your first job, which you may or may not like, you may be afraid of not being able to discover another. As a result, you get trapped and continue to do a job that stresses you out, drains your energy, or prevents you from enjoying other facets of your life. Don't stay in a position you despise because you fear you won't be able to find something better. The faster you make the correct decision, the better because you do not have the same freedom to seek better opportunities in your 30s or 40s or 50s and so on. 15. Burning bridges It is not a good idea to burn all of your bridges. Some individuals in their twenties leave their former lives and move on as soon as they receive a better offer in life. Some people abandon their friends, families, and those who stood by them when times were tough. It's likely that they obtained a better job offer and hopped into the moving train, saying goodbye to their former position without having to quit professionally. You can send them a few days, weeks, or months' notices so that they can find a replacement. Often, since you can't see into the future, you could run into these people again when you're in a tight spot. So, what are your options? Don’t burn bridges. 14. Believing that talent and education are sufficient for success High intellect, natural talent, and degrees from prestigious universities are all desirable qualities, but they don't guarantee that you'll land a great job — and they're worthless if they're not accompanied by hard work. Acting with others and how you portray yourself can be much more critical in advancing your career. Whatever you do, having social skills, soft skills, understanding who to ask for what, and seeing the big picture are all useful assets. 13. Associating pleasure with wealth Although prestige and a big paycheck can make you happy, there's a lot more to success than that. If you prioritize a paycheck over your passion, you're setting yourself up for a long time of regret. 12. Giving up when things get Tough When it happens for the first time, ending a serious relationship, being fired from a job, and making your startup fail can all seem life-changing. Instead of giving up or setting a lower goal for the next time, you should consider setbacks as opportunities to improve you and develop you. Remember every hardship can be a blessing hidden in disguise. Remember to look for the blessing and the lesson learnt. 11. Putting off things There's a theory that says if you're 30 years old, you'll be extremely successful and have it all figured out. It's all too easy to put off your most cherished ambitions, assuming that you'll have time for them eventually. However, you can reach an age when it is too late to change occupations, attend graduate school, or start a family. Our advice is to create a ‘Life list’ with all your goals and set action steps for what you will do to achieve those, and tick them off your ‘life list’. Remember Arya Stark had a list too, and she ticked names off her list too. Now we don’t suggest you have a ‘kill list’ like Arya Stark did in Game of Thrones, but having a ‘life list’ helps you keep you keep focused on the goals you want in life. 10. Making an attempt to satisfy everybody It is instinctive to want to get along with your boss, customers, and almost all of your colleagues when you're first starting out in your career. Embrace it, and don't get upset when you know some of them really don't like you. You will always find someone in your office, family, or school who dislikes you. So, don't get stressed and don't try to please everyone. This way, things will work well for you. 9. Believing that all friendships will last forever Do you think your college friends will be your lifelong friends? Some will always be there at 40, but the majority will be busying in their lives doing what they do. When your mates are really not altogether in the same town or in the same school, you will know which ones are perhaps the most important to you and which ones are worth the time of keeping in touch with. 8. They're on the lookout for their soul mate Some people want to spend the majority of their twenties single and emotionally detached. Others are on the lookout for the right partner. The latter category is prone to fantasizing about meeting someone with whom everything just works, and the relationship is uncomplicated. However, in fact, the most successful long-term relationships necessitate effort and commitment. Here's some helpful advice: You must constantly make compromises, changes, embrace and justify your failures, but know what? This is what makes it interesting! 7. Believing that relocating to a new place would fix their problems Traveling and living in a new place can both be culturally enriching experiences, and your twenties are the ideal time to do both. But, heading to the opposite coast does not guarantee that you can immediately find sense and purpose. 6. Seeing things in black and white Many people in their twenties are fixated on absolutes. For example, some people believe they must choose between a future career that benefits them and one that benefits others, despite the fact that self-interest does not have to be synonymous with doing good for the community. 5. Planning years ahead of time One of the major mistakes that you probably made in your twenties was that you tried hard to plan years in advance. We know that it is good to plan and sort things out, but long-term planning may result in failure. It isn't easy to guess where you will end up and what you will do. So, instead of obsessing over five-year plans, concentrate on achievable and doable short-term objectives. 4. They assume they are the only one of their mates who is having difficulties It may seem that your peers or colleagues are more competitive and optimistic as you navigate the world, assessing who you are as an adult and pursuing a career. However, regardless of income, jobs, or living conditions, every 20-something is still finding things out as they go. 3. Adhering to bad advice Bad advice will sneak up on you. You may want to check it out to see if it really works. When it doesn't, you feel compelled to give it another shot just to be sure. That's how bad advice will devastate your career and personal relationships. It's likely that your mentors and friends were providing you with bad advice. You thought it was wrong the second it crossed their lips. It would be best if you had not listened to them in the first place. Instead, you continued to act as though they were fully aware of their actions. You continued to give them money for further advice, despite the fact that it had failed to help them. It failed each and every time. 2. Believing you must be the best at one thing There could always be someone better than you, no matter how good you are at something. Choose one thing, and you'll find 100 more talented people who have been doing it professionally for a long time. Right now, you need to be exceptional at four to five things, figure out where your strengths overlap and then create a business around them. You can build your own personal brand and have something completely special that only a few people in the world can match. We need to master a few before coming up with something completely different because creativity is the new secret to success. 1. Accusing others of being responsible for your plight Our present situation is not the fault of our parents. Accepting responsibility for being the authors of our own lives and beginning to write a story that we want to read is important. Stop blaming others for your issues and start taking responsibility for your choices; the more you know that you are solely responsible for your actions, the sooner you will get behind the wheel and drive. Here is a quote here at MM we love: “You are the captain of your ship, and the master of your fate”. Bonus One! Thinking that money is the answer to all life’s problems Many people in their 20s think money is the answer to life’s problems. But it’s not. I’ll share with you a story of someone I knew once who thought this, he was a greedy person, and also a lonely person. He thought money would solve his loneliness; and so he hustled hard, and had a successful breakthrough with his business. It made him millions. He got married, even had a few kids, yet he still felt lonely. He had millions, but he felt it wasn’t enough, he felt he needed more money to solve his loneliness. So he hustled more, several more businesses, long days, long nights, it cost him his wife, a divorce, he lost his kids, but he made his money into a Billion. He had so much more money. Yet he still felt lonely. He now feels that if he makes more billions his life problem will be solved. The truth is, it won’t. Money is an amplifier, like a magnifying glass it only amplifies your true self. This man was greedy and lonely and money only made him greedier and lonelier. It amplified him. What this person should have done was solved the loneliness part first and the greed first by finding happiness in the little things in life. Only when he found happiness, should he have sought the secondary goal of making money. Only then would he have been happy. Comment below about your thoughts on this! What shall I write about next?

The end of winter as we see it is the start of the most cheerful season of the year. For all of us, it’s the start of the new season but for Persians, the joy becomes double as the New Year joins with it. Yes, the New-year! Unlike other countries that celebrate the New-year at the start of January, Persians celebrate it with the start of the spring season. Come on board with MM news when we dive into the top 10 weirdest facts about Persian New-year. Read until the end where there will be a BONUS fact. 1. Happens exactly on Vernal Equinox: With the farewell of winter, the new season of spring brings new joys with it. Persian calls this arrival of freshness in the shape of New-year on the exact moment of Vernal Equinox. Are you wondering what is Vernal Equinox? The vernal equinox is the name of two periods during the year when the Sun is close to the Equator and day and night are of similar duration; it is also one of two points in the sky where even the ecliptic (the Sun's annual path) and the celestial equator meet. Like the Chinese New-year, Persian New-year is also an occasion that isn’t celebrated on one date. This year it will be celebrated on 21st March 2021. It is celebrated at the end of winter and the start of the spring season. 2. Persian New-year or Nowruz a religious fact? Unlike other countries, its dates vary as it was celebrated on 20 March of last year. Now this year Nowruz will be celebrated on 21 March 2021. This event has nothing to do with religion. The determination of the date of Nowruz is based on the astronomical celestial events. This ritual is as old as 3000 years and was started from the traditions of Zoroastrians before Islam’s advent in the 7th century A.D. 3. Nowruz and the seven Ss: A major feature of NowRuz is the preparation of “Haft-Seen,” (seven “S’s”); a special display of seven specific offerings each beginning with the letter “S” in Farsi. Typically, the “Haft-Seen” includes the following: “seeb” or apple (to promote beauty and good health), “seer” or garlic (to ward off bad omen), “samanou” (a sweet pudding, symbolizing affluence), “sabze” or wheat-germ (representing rebirth) grown in a flat dish a few days before the New Year, “sek-keh” or coin, preferably gold (for wealth and abundance), “senjed” (dried fruit from lotus tree, symbolizing love), and “somagh” or sumac (color of sunrise). There will also be a mirror (symbol for the sky), a goldfish in a bowl (a symbol of life force), lit candles symbolizing fire and promoting enlightenment, colored eggs (symbol of fertility corresponding to the mother earth), sweets to spread sweetness and a book of poems by Hafiz or Rumi. 4. Goldfishes a sign of perpetual life: For many years the goldfish are caught present at the dinner table. To the Iranians, goldfish is a symbol of perpetual life. They gather seven things comprising of the word “seen” or “S” a letter of Persian language. But due to the increasing rate of catching of goldfish every year and animal rights activism, this chain has become less common. And by the end of this festival they were required to free up all the fishes into the rivers and ponds. 5. Iranians aren't the only ones who rejoice. Iran is one of ten countries that observe this holiday. It is a national holiday in Afghanistan, Azerbaijan, Albania, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan. An unofficial holiday is also observed in a few other countries to celebrate Nowruz. 6. It’s like several western holidays wrapped into one: It’s not just Iran that celebrates the holiday but Afghanistan, Azerbaijan, Iraq Kurdistan, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, and Turkmenistan also celebrate it with Iran. It’s a day of joy which is expressed as a holiday in the above-mentioned countries. Also, the UN General Assembly Proclaimed on 21st March 2010, the International Nowruz Day for Iran. 7. Bonfire and other pre-Nowruz traditions and festivities: The Nowruz ritual starts with a bonfire night, which is also called Chahar-Shanbeh-Suri, which also means the eve of the Red Wednesday is the introduction to Nowruz. Here jumping on fire, singing and ritualistic phrases are done. The home is also cleaned to welcome the Nowruz. This event is also very cheerful as people sing and dance proclaiming their joy. These families pay a visit to the elder members of their families. It is a symbol of respect. 8. Traditional New-year meal: Nowruz’s list of the meal is quite long. Which include mainly Sabze or wheatgrass which symbolizes the new start of prosperity growth and rebirth of the traditions. Similarly, garlic or Sir also represents good health. There is also other food like sabzi polo, reshteh polo, kuku sabzi which is made of vegetable and is a vegetarian dish with a light and salty taste. Eid Deedani is the general period to visit loved ones – both family and friends. And with that sweets and confectionaries are a must thing. 9. Fire jumping: This dangerous act is a part of the Persian New-year festival. A small bonfire is lit around which everyone gathers around. According to Persians, the fire is of great significance. This began on the last Wednesday of winter with the evening of Chahar- Shanbeh-Suri when people make the bonfire and jump over it as the sun sets. It is a family tradition which means to make the darkness go away and inviting the light to come for the upcoming year. Also, it it’s believed to fade away the negativity by chanting:” Offer me your lovely red hue and take away my sickly pallor.” 10. Minstrels, Troubadours, and Mischief-making There is another tradition known as Haji Firuz. This tradition Is celebrated by wearing bright red dresses and dancing around on the street. It’s almost like Halloween because people dress like in disguise and go from door to door raising raucous, loud noises, chanting. This spreads joy and cheer among each other. Bonus Fact - Prevent bad luck by going out on the 13th day On the exact 13th day all leave their houses and go to the mountains and parks enjoying the clean and pure environment to rejoice with family and friends. They like to enjoy greenery all over the place. This is also a symbol of leaving the bad luck of the past year behind and moving on to the new beginning where some of the couples are engaged. The reason for proposing their vows in this place is to create a green future for them. The sabzee table sprout which absorbs the negative energy and is thrown into the flowing water. By doing this they expect to find their soul mate in this year ahead. Comment below what intrigued you the most about Persian New year? References https://theculturetrip.com/middle-east/iran/articles/10-things-you-need-to-know-about-the-iranian-new-year/ https://learnenglishteens.britishcouncil.org/uk-now/read-uk/nowruz http://persianfoodtours.com/nowruz-persian-new-year/ https://acei-global.blog/2014/03/20/8-things-to-know-about-nowruz-persian-new-year-celebrations/ https://en.mehrnews.com/news/156855/Interesting-facts-about-Persian-New-Year-Nowruz

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This post is about the mindset of poor people Poor and broke are states of the mind, while poor is eternal , broke is only temporary . Poor people ask why life is unfair, whereas broke people ask what is the obstacle I must overcome to get to where I want to be. To understand what it means to be poor, let us look at some philosophies; the philosophies of the poor. Poor people usually spend their money and then invest what’s left. That’s the philosophy of the poor. Now here is the philosophy of the rich: rich people usually invest their money, and spend what’s left. What’s most interesting is what is not important is the amount, but what is important is the philosophy so before reading anything else ahead, I would ask you to adopt this philosophy. Invest first, then spend. Then we have pessimism. Pessimism is the deadly human disease of always looking on the bad side, the deadly side, all the problems why something won’t work or that it would fail. The poor pessimist leads an ugly, ugly life. The poor doesn’t try to figure why something is right, the poor tries to figure why something is wrong. The poor doesn’t try to figure out why something is true, the poor try to figure out why something is false. They don’t look for the virtues, instead they look for the faults. And when the poor find them, they are delighted! This is the same person who looks through the window and doesn’t see the sunset, instead he sees the specs on the window. This same person looks at a solution and says I have 3 good reasons why it won’t work, instead of 1 reason where it will work. To the pessimist the glass is always half empty, but to the optimist the glass is always half full. Why is it that the same measure if perceived in two completely different ways? Our lives are affected by the way we think, by the way we think we are, and by the choices we think we should make, not the way they actually are… Poor thinking habits are what keep the poor, well poor. People work hard yes, but not all people think hard. And I’ll share with you, the mind is like a factory, a mental factory, and whatever you think about all day long, it pours the ingredients into your mental factory that builds and creates the four determinants of success, longevity and happiness in life that I teach about. 1. Financial literacy 2. Emotional literacy 3. Personal development 4. Self-control/clarity/focus A question the poor often ask, is why is life so unfair? But a question they could ask instead, is how do I live the good life? And the answer well is simple, it’s not easy but it’s simple, the mind like a factory, a mental factory and here’s how you build anything, select the right ingredients, keep out the wrong ingredients and it starts with thought, everything starts with thought, so you must be wise, and you must be careful because what you think about starts everything. What you read about, who you listen to, who you follow, dictates how you think, and how you think starts everything. They say show me your friends, and I’ll show you your future, and I say show me what you read, show me your friends, and I’ll tell you how you think… Let me give you an analogy, what if you had a cup of coffee, and someone put sugar in it, what would happen? You’d be ok. What if that same someone put poison in there? Well you’d be dead Now what if your worst enemy put sugar in your cup, then what would happen? You’d still be ok. And what if your best friend by accident put poison in there? Well again you’d be dead. Another lesson, life is both sugar, and it is poison. When it comes to your mind, it doesn’t matter who puts garbage in there, it is still garbage, and it will still do its harm. You got to be careful. A wise man once said, “everyday stand guard at the door of your mind”. How important is that. You decide what enters the door of your mental factory, and you should not let anyone make that decision for you. Another disease of the poor is complaining, crying, moaning… You could spend ten minutes complaining, then that’s ten minutes you will never get back. You have wasted ten minutes and you have began what’s known as economic cancer of the bone. Indulge in this disease long enough and you will never reach your destination, never get that promotion you want, that home you dream of, that car wish you had, that girl you always want. Instead of complain, why not take massive action? Only you can take hold of your own future.