Let me start answering this question with some caveats. In general terms, professional experience does matter, and it matters a lot. However, people tend to confuse “experience” with “exposure,” and that’s where the argument train derails from a sensible standpoint.
“Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.” -John D. Rockefeller.
For a long time, I’ve heard the phrase “If it’s not broken, don’t fix it,” and most of the time it’s never thought further, we just accept it as we have inherited it from our collective wisdom, but I sometimes ask myself if we should just think a bit differently. Maybe it deserves a bit of new polish the time has taken from it.
“People would do better if they knew better.” -Jim Rohn
Let’s imagine for a moment you haven’t yet figured out in life your professional inclinations. Wouldn't it be valuable if you knew since you were a child, what you exactly needed to achieve your dreams?
I have no children myself, but I highly recommend that parents expose their children to different activities or introduction to professions and let them explore something they might enjoy later in life. They will thank you later, I’ll guarantee that.
Whenever you do something in life, whether a simple small action to a big change in your life, please think about why it is important to you or why it is worth doing.
Mindset is the make or break of your life, so if somehow an action you’re doing is separating you from the path you’ve set for yourself, you’ll thank yourself for catching it on time and preventing further going away from it.
Most of the time we wished we didn’t have shortcomings, but if we were perfect we wouldn’t have challenges that end up creating for us the room we just need to improve.
What if we could change these bad habits into beneficial ones? What if we compounded our future self with a better present? Does the prospect of a better yourself excite you? There’s beauty in our imperfection.
Every time you have free time, do something that contributes to your life in any way. It can be spiritually, mentally, or even physically. Sometimes investing in yourself is not acquiring, but rather removing to release dead weight and be able to use the available energies in something more profitable.
It is always good to smile at the anecdotes and experiences of others that might add value to your life. It is perfectly normal and desirable to feel good for others, but there are times when not everything goes well in life and you also absorb those experiences. When does this become a problem? When you become the emotional repository of others.
It is difficult for me to go out on the street for a weekend to enjoy himself. I don’t consider myself a party guy. My weekends are for reading (business, entrepreneurship, personal growth, among others) and reviewing habits.