All The Lessons I Learned Throughout 2021

The year 2021 is a year full of constant change. Change breeds learning. These are the notes I make throughout 2021 that I write to remind myself what I should strive to be privately, and at first, I intended to keep it that way. But after showing the things I learned to some of my friends, they convinced me to publish this in the hope that it might also help others. All these lessons were taken from events I experienced or books/articles/stories from others I, fortunately, learned from before making the mistakes myself. So here are 22 lessons for the year 2022:

1. Slow down. One thing at a time.
2. You’ll feel powerless when you let yourself become a victim. Understand what you can and can’t control.
3. Separate the people from the problem.
4. How to choose a job:
   • Right leader & mentor
   • Right people
   • Right culture
   • Right vision & strategy
5. Spend money to save time, not the other way around
6. Work, engage with and associate yourself with people, places, and things that align with who you are, what you believe, and what you want for your life.
7. Leave other people’s mistakes where they lie.
8. To accept it without arrogance, to let it go with indifference.
9. You have a job; it’s not the job having you.
10. You don’t see things as they are; you see them as you are.
11. Everything is hard before it is easy.
12. People can change, just not because of others.
13. There are many sources of happiness and contentment around you. Do you let yourself see it?
14. The consequences of your anger are not worth it compared to the cause of your anger.
15. Making things simple is not a simple thing to do.
16. The bitterness you taste will accentuate the sweetness you taste after.
17. Will the thing you worry about right now still matter a year from now?
18. Everyone is perfectly imperfect, including you.
19. Lowering down others doesn’t make you go higher.
20. High spirit, low expectations.
21. Process, not protest.
22. You can’t wait until life isn’t hard anymore before you decide to be happy.

That is all for 2021. I hope that my notes can be helpful to anyone reading this. Wishing you all a productive and fulfilling 2022!