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12 Things To Do In Your 20s If You Want To Live Your Best Life In Your 30s

Forget the notion that your 20s are supposed to be the best years of your life; they most definitely are not.

Thought Catalog
4 min readJan 2, 2023
Gonzalo Mendiola

By Molly Burford

Your 20s are the decade in which you lay down the foundation for the rest of your adult life. After all, it is within the 20s that most people have their first tastes of adulthood, from getting hired for their first “adult” jobs to facing other “adult” commitments and responsibilities such as buying a home, getting married, investing, and more.

Your 20s matter and the way you spend your own will be reflected back to you in your 30s and beyond. While it may be daunting to think that a mere 10 years of early adulthood is so fundamental to the rest of your life, it is also an incredibly exciting opportunity. Because it’s in your 20s you can start to get clear about the kind of life you want to live and make an actionable plan to start living in that way.

If you’re unsure where to start, here are 12 things to start doing in your 20s if you want to live your best life in your 30s and beyond.

1. Learn to live within your means.

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