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Millenials, Save Yourselves With These Do's and Don'ts

You are not brilliant because you could play three strings on a guitar when you first picked it up. Your artwork really was just pieces of pasta, glue and paint... it wasn't "just like Van Gogh". It wasn't the cutest thing when you first passed gas (or the last time in front of Grammie).
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So, everything you were told was a lie.

You are not brilliant because you could play three strings on a guitar when you first picked it up. Your artwork really was just pieces of pasta, glue and paint... it wasn't "just like Van Gogh". It wasn't the cutest thing when you first passed gas (or the last time in front of Grammie) and most importantly; doing what we did to get a job in 90's now, will get you S.F.A unless being a barista and living in your parent's basement is your idea of success. (Yes, I'm talking to you Bachelor in Social Anthropology)

Don't you feel better now that all that is out of the way? And they wonder why you feel entitled, moody, depressed and full of anxiety.

I have some good news and some bad news

A lot of the Millenials really do act entitled and the amount of people in their 20's who are barely coping with anxiety is friggin' scary!

People in their 20's tend to be "out of the box" thinkers. That means anything is possible if you look at life in different ways. Here are a list of 10 things that you should avoid and 10 things you should embrace. May the force be with you (I mean the Episode VII version, of course).

Don't Do

10. Don't settle for a job, waiting for your 76k a year position to fall in your lap... you're not fooling anybody.

9. Don't live with your parents. It's soooo much easier but unless you are doing something to create your own future, you might as well make your own Spock ears and learn Klingon.

8. Don't buy a crazy red BMW while living in said basement. You will have to bring whomever you pick up and date more than once to your basement, so unless you've done in your parents or they are working for Greenpeace with a long Russian layover, the car's not fooling anybody.

7. Don't sleep with everything that moves. It really doesn't help. Look at the Kardashians.

6. Don't try to win friends and influence people by your bong-toking prowess

5. Don't twerk. Just don't.

4. Don't measure yourself but how your successful friends live. They are doing the same thing and resenting the hell out of not being Justin Beiber. But seriously...

3. Don't focus on your flaws. That's your parent's job.

2. Don't make excuses. That's Rob Ford's job. (Remember him?)

1. Don't give up, give in or run away.

Do do (Heh, I said "do do".)

10. Do embrace your craziest inner passions. The things that you create that make you forget time when you are engaged in them. Yes, everyone will tell you that there is no money in it but money comes after all-consuming passion and mastery.

9. Do live with your parents! If you have a plan. If you do odd jobs to get the money to make your dreams come true. Just remember to act like a guest. Don't make messes and show appreciation.

8. Do go after a crazy dream. Invest your time, your money and your heart in the thing you believe in with all of your heart and keep it to yourself until it is a done deal.

7. Do love everyone you meet. That's easy if they are cool. But I also mean the loud ones, the rude ones, the annoying ones. Send them love (but keep a wide berth).

6. Do win friends and influence people. (Read the book)

5. Do not twerk. OK. I cheated, but it's for your own good.

4. Do measure yourself in moment by moment micro-successes. Reading that extra article. Finishing that piece of music. Avoiding the extra treat. Cleaning one square foot of the floor in your room.

3. Do focus on your strengths. The ones you earn vs. your God-given talents.

2. Do own your mistakes. Admit them. Accept them. Embrace them. Frank Zappa and Miles Davis were geniuses partly because they weren't afraid to mess up big.

1. Do not let your fears stop you. Take your passions, your talents, your earned accomplishments and make your dreams come true. Make them big. Make them crazy and don't stop no matter what.

You are brilliant.

You are your own work of art.

But you must practice it.

Live it!

Be it!

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