Dance into the New Decade of Life

As I danced my heart out during the Broncos blissful win over the undefeated Tom Brady,  my twentieth year on this earth officially began. It started off with tears of joy, dancing, screaming, and a lot of laughing. This new year of life is just beginning – a whole new decade is commencing – and I could not be more pleased about that prospect.

Sometimes people don’t view their birthday as incredibly significant. Another day passes and they feel exactly the same. Nothing changes and they do nothing to celebrate another year of life. Others make their birthdays similar to new years – they make resolutions of things they want to accomplish and create five-year plans and what-have-you.

I fall in a slightly different category. I definitely don’t see birthdays as just any old day of the year, but I see it more than another chance to create new resolutions. I see hope and confidence. With each birthday, you are passing into a new stage of life. You are given the opportunity to do something bigger and grander each year by creating daily habits, developing new skills, meeting strangers and turning them into friends, and creating a better world. Birthdays remind you of life and birthdays should inspire you to surpass anything you've ever experience before. 

With that in mind, let’s get down to what this 20-something blog is all about.

Your twenties. These years are the “foundation” years, the ones where you set up a successful future, people tell you. These aren’t supposed to be wasted.

What if I told you that your twenties were your "successful future"? These years are more than just the foundation for the successful life you’re “suppose” to have one day. The life you're suppose to have is the one you're living right now - so create the best version of yourself. Live and learn. Fail and succeed. Act impulsively and make plans. Be alive.

Don’t view this as a time that you have to endure until you become thirty and have the job of your dream and lots of money and a beautiful family. No. Stop that. Start being you and taking advantage of the crazy things that happen in life. Life for this moment. Decide who you want to be and seize that person today, each and every moment.

My best friend gave me some encouragement that I think will benefit many people (she is incredibly wise, after all). She is almost twenty-one, but together we have decided to take our twenties seriously. She told me this, in commemoration of my twentieth year:

I’ve discovered my twenties may push me more than ever before. This is the time when push comes to shove and we actually figure out life. My first year is almost over, yours is just beginning. Let’s promise t push each other to never stop sculpting ourselves and pushing ourselves to grow. I’ve discovered this is a personal journey, but I’m glad my journey gets to run right along yours. Here’s to the next ten years and whatever they bring with them. Here’s to never living mediocre lives but to live life to the fullest and embrace change with smiles on our faces and adventurous spirits in our hearts.”

This blog is all about embracing the challenges that come in our twenties. Taking on challenges, discovering what really works, developing new habits, learning how to travel, and trying to experience and juice out every interesting moment life has to offer.

There’s so much life that awaits us. Find out what is worth it and what isn’t.

This blog is going to document, guide, and hopefully inspire you to live life to the fullest – especially during your second decade of life. You know how people talk about solo traveling, paleo diets, and sky diving? Have you ever wondered what works and what is worth experiencing? Well, I’m going to do all those crazy ideas and share them with you so you know what to use. No more pinteresting ideas and experimenting – I’ll do that for you and tell you the results.

What a decade this will be.

----------To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all//Oscar Wilde----------