It's kind of funny.
I am.
I'm now in my early fifties, which surprises and shocks certain people when they hear that.
And increasingly over the years, I've been asked sort of a variation of the same question, which is, what would you tell your 20 something self about life, about work, about love, about play, all these different things?
And over that same amount of time, I've sort of developed maybe a bit of a different lens on how to best use that window of your life that season, sort of your twenties.
So I figured I would share some ideas and a bit of a set of very basic inquiries and hope that maybe it helps people navigate that time and tap it in a way that allows them to set up the entire rest of their life to live profoundly differently.
I'm Jonathan Fields.
This is good life project.
So what would you tell your 20 something self about what really matters in life?
What piece of advice or pieces of advice would you give that version of yourself?
This is actually a question that I've been asked a whole lot over my time, especially in the last decade or so.
And I figured that's what I want to focus on today.
So as I sit here and record this, I am actually 51 years old.
And I've learned a lot, I've tried a lot, I've done a lot, and I've had an amazing opportunity to work with and to mentor a lot of people over the last few years who are in their twenties.
And I've been thinking, what am I actually telling them a lot?
And how would I have changed what I did?
So in my mid to early twenties, I'd gotten out of college.
I took a couple years off to travel and to do.
I was literally selling long distance telephone service door to door.
Wow, that was a tough job.