We asked some of the wisest people we know what they would tell their younger selves. Check out their responses below.
Devon Mabry
Trust your instincts! It’ll never guide you the wrong way. That gut feeling you get when it comes to hard decision making, go for what you feel is right. Go with your gut! Don’t keep guessing about it and have mental battles. Your spirit already gave you a signal on which direction to take Read more>>
Nicholas Vernon
Your gut instincts are right. Continue to be kind to others, but understand that the world will not be kind to you. God will provide a path through the valleys, but there are still valleys to go through. Your instincts are guided by wisdom, wisdom is guided by God. Read more>>
Kelsey Riggsbee
I’d tell my younger self not to take life so seriously. Keep the curiosity and wonder of childhood alive, because that spark is something you’ll carry with you—and it’s exactly what I hope to inspire through Grand Moments. Read more>>
Sonia Pal
Keep the journals. Even when they feel like clutter. Even when you don’t know what you’re writing. Even when it’s just grocery lists and half-thoughts and daydreams about someday. Because hidden in there are the seeds of everything, the voice you’ll come back to, the pattern you didn’t know was forming, the version of you that already knew. It won’t make sense yet. That’s fine. Read more>>
Marcy Gardner
You don’t need to have life all figured out at 18. Do what makes *you* happy, even if it looks different or unconventional, and don’t feel pressured to follow the path everyone else says you should take. Read more>>
Kevin J. Stone
I would tell my younger self to not let people’s thoughts get into your head. Some people have a fear of jumping out there to go after their dreams, but you’re not like that. Read more>>
