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My hardest hitting lessons of 2024

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December 28, 2024

Vintage typewriter surrounded by floating fragments in a dark, red-tinged environment.

2024 brought me many lessons (some reminders).

Over the past week, I reflected on many of them and compiled the list for myself.

This is my personal viewpoint, but something I hope will impact one of you today. 

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  1. Ask God for wisdom, always.
  2. Treat everyone fairly, not equally with your time, some don’t deserve it. 
  3. Speak your mind; honesty saves everyone time.
  4. If all your friends look like you, that’s a problem—seek more diversity.
  5. You’ll lose friends as you level up; accept it.
  6. You’ll win friends as you level up, acknowledge it. 
  7. You’ll know who your true friends are in times of pain and need.
  8. You’ll have haters.
  9. Don’t be a hater.
  10. If you're a hater, the smart people around you know—even if you think they don’t.
  11. Weirdly, social media will indirectly reveal who your haters are.
  12. Create compelling social media content consistently; it will compound and open doors for you behind closed doors.
  13. Most of your mentors, coaches, and company owners won’t associate with you when you outshine them or stop making them money.
  14. You can’t argue with fools and babies.
  15. Speaking of babies, don’t ask people if they have kids; you don’t know their journey with maternity goals.
  16. Travel internationally—and no, an all-inclusive Cancun resort that you never leave doesn’t count.
  17. Get coached, but ensure the coach is credible and “offends” you from time to time, nice coaches are not coaches, they’re associates.  
  18. Accelerate your success by seeking out mentors in anything you want to improve.
  19. When you give, give from the shadows; your left hand should not know what your right hand gives.
  20. Not everyone will match your drive or excellence; that’s the very definition of extraordinary.
  21. Get a marriage counselor early, not when there are issues.
  22. Never go a week without understanding the needs and wants of your significant other.
  23. Stay connected; you grow apart because you don’t grow together.
  24. Apologize when you need to, it’s the ultimate expression of humility.

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