Life Advice For A 17yrs Old (17teen special birthday blog)

 If you’re 17 year old & reading this right now, Man you are lucky!

You have so much time & opportunity, it’s crazy.

Being in the same age, the best I could give is to understand myself, my inner conscience it will surely change the course of my life. So, Here we go:

Make it a goal to become self aware

I know that you’re young & you’ll be evolving a lot over the next few years, but trust me, self awareness is a prerequisite for achieving anything amazing in any area of your life.

Self-awareness means being fully aware of the 'self' - yourself.

You as a person, as an individual, as a living, breathing, walking entity.

What you like or dislike is a very small part of that.

After 17 years of life, you have developed some patterns & personality.

It is essential that you know fully well what/who you are.

• Know exactly who you are
• Learn about yourself
• Learn what works for you
• Learn how you function
• Study yourself
• Test yourself

• Learn why it works for you in every area of life & why it works for you.

If there’s one thing that being self-awareness will bring, it’ll be clarity - in yourself & your life.

What’s the #1 thing most teenagers & young adults struggle with during 16-26 years of age?

   Clarity.

• Clarity about who they are.
• Clarity about what they want.
• Clarity about what they want to do.
• Clarity about where they are headed.

Not only are they never clear about stuff during that age, sometimes clarity is something that they struggle with all their lives.

This results in:

• Choosing wrong subject/major to study for higher education
• Choosing wrong professional field for your career
• Choosing wrong people/group to hang out with
• Choosing wrong partner to spend your life with
• Choosing wrong habits & patterns
• Choosing wrong places to live at

They don’t as much ‘choose’ these things for themselves as these things being ‘chosen’ for them - by their parents, by society, by what’s currently popular, etc.

Hence, self awareness is the key; no matter which stage of life you’re at.

Being self-aware means knowing yourself inside out.

🗝️ Knowing your talents and powers, knowing your limitations and weaknesses.

🗝️ Knowing what your behavior, personality and character is like.

🗝️ Knowing and understanding that past that has made you and how it's dictating your present.

🗝️ Knowing the things that trigger you and why.

🗝️ Knowing what drives your behavior, your habits, your interactions, your emotions, your ambitions and your ability to achieve them.

🗝️ Knowing about and understanding what works for you in every area of life and what doesn't.

🗝️ Knowing how you deal with things in life and why you do it that certain way.

🗝️ Knowing why and how you attach meanings to everything in life.

🗝️ Knowing and understanding what love, success, accomplishment, failure, religion, spirituality, health, wealth, relationships and community means to you and why.

🗝️ Knowing what are your core values and beliefs and why.

🗝️ Knowing what your insecurities are, where they stem from and why.

🗝️ Knowing what your patterns in life are and why you keep repeating them.

Making every unconscious part of and about yourself conscious is how you bring self-awareness.

From age 17-20, if you do nothing else but know yourself fully well, you’ll have 100x more chances of succeeding in life than someone who’s still struggling with clarity in their life.

Starting today, work on becoming more self aware.

Become obsessed about knowing yourself.

It is the key to your personal power.

🙌