If You Could Go Back 10 Years With Everything You Know Today, What Would You Do Differently?

[Alex Walter]

Imagine you wake up tomorrow and it's 10 years ago.

You still have all your current knowledge, skills, mistakes, successes, and experiences.

What would you do differently?

Would you:

Start a business earlier?
Learn a specific skill?
Invest in something?
Move to a different country?
Take more risks?
Work less and enjoy life more?

I find this question fascinating because most people don't regret their failures.

They regret the opportunities they ignored.

For me, I would have focused much earlier on building assets instead of constantly trading time for money.

Whether it's websites, software, content, communities, or businesses, assets continue working when you're asleep.

Time doesn't.

Now I'm curious about everyone else.

If you could go back 10 years with everything you know today, what would be your first move and why?

And what is the biggest lesson you've learned during the last decade?

 

[Dopious]

Take action, and just do something, don`t wait. If you are new, learn marketing and sales first, you can be a God in coding and still not make money. Learning marketing and sales will help you in whatever adventures you go later on and if you later change product or service you can since you öearned how to market and sell.

If you can produce sales you can always outsource the rest.

 

[TheVigilante]

Well no regrets honestly but yeah focus and not care what people think

 

[Alex Walter]

Take action, and just do something, don`t wait. If you are new, learn marketing and sales first, you can be a God in coding and still not make money. Learning marketing and sales will help you in whatever adventures you go later on and if you later change product or service you can since you öearned how to market and sell.

If you can produce sales you can always outsource the rest.

thank you for your advice

 

[UnusualSubstance]

I would develop social skills because I'm sorely lacking in that department.

 

[t2van]

I would develop social skills because I'm sorely lacking in that department.

He said 10 years not start over

 

[Champagne]

I would have invested more of my money in assets rather than letting it sit in a bank account.

 

[Outlaw]

Give education a proper shot earlier, probably do field sales at a younger age too

 

[Octavia]

He said 10 years not start over

we are all burning already!!! no need to burn him some more today

 

[SilverClouds]

Nothing. You can't always predict everything and you can only try your best to your own ability. Also it doesn't work this way... You made a mistake and learned from it to not do that again in the future, you're not meant to build a time travel machine lol, no need.

Maybe I regret being too stressed or emotional about things... But I'm human, not a fuckin robot. Maybe this comes with time too, once you're stronger and more powerful you know your position is *relatively* stable or that you're able to take anything and come out victorious then you're more stable in your emotions too because you know that nobody can do anything to you.

 

[RiskyStuff]

Save more and trust doctors instead of cocaine, alcohol and oxycodone addicts.
Start a company instead of doing freelancing.
Control thoughts instead of letting them fly right and left.

 

[WinstonSmith]

Save more money, open a bookstore, create a speakeasy in the basement of it, and buy land somewhere and build on it. That's all just the beginning of what I'd do; there's so much.