30 LIFE LESSONS FROM 30 YEARS UNDER 3 MINUTES

Payal A Kumar
2 min readDec 26, 2022

It’s been an adventurous decade, living across 3 different countries, changing jobs, building side hustles and a era filled with immense evolution.

Lessons for 20’s Life lessons

SO here goes!

  1. TIME is your biggest currency, use it wisely!
  2. Learn how to manage your finances
  3. Save + Invest at least 40% of your earrings
  4. Travel Travel Travel (you don’t need as much money as you think)
  5. Be willing to move outside your COMFORT ZONE
  6. Which entails, changing careers, lovers, countries, friends to experience LIFE TO THE FULLEST
  7. Remember “YOU” are the average of the 5 people you hang out with most
  8. Hence, don’t forget to NETWORK (ahem! outside your comfort zone, point 5)
  9. Everyone’s path in life is different, that’s what makes us unique
  10. Health, is another currency you don’t want to take for granted
  11. Upskill! Don’t get stuck in a rut each area of your life should be evolving
  12. Let your inner intuition guide you - through Yoga, Meditation, Chi

Understand that life is a series of “Cyclic movements” change is constant. So develop inner tools to prepare for any moments the wave is down

14. Be a surfer of life (learn to ride the waves of life)

15. Family is your home, don’t neglect them

16. Gratitude, will ground you in life. You will need it!

17. Cultivate a strong mindset

18. Compounding in life, 10 mins reading everyday X 1month = 300hrs worth of knowledge. (It all ads up)

19. Don’t just consume knowledge, implement it

20. Don’t chase anyone that doesn’t value you simply because Lovers can become strangers and strangers can become lovers

21. So don’t belittle or judge anyone

22. Remember that Rome wasn’t built in a day

23. There is no overnight success, although, for privileged few, the journey is easier

24. and life is not linear, neither is your healing

Luck is a thing BUT you can beat it with smart work, intention and inner compass

26. Follow Joe Dispenza and Sadhguru

27. Google Masculine and Feminine energy

28. Go to a energy healer rather than a therapist (*conditions apply)

29. Choose Faith over Fear unless you’re being chased by a Panda ;)

30. Build your Personal Brand, this will open gateways to life opportunities for your 30’s

and that’s a wrap…

Now, go have FUN!

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Payal A Kumar

Yogi & business owner - consultant for sustainable led brands, sharing my life journey through my lens, heart & soul {connect on @payalakumar}