{"id":133,"date":"2010-07-19T07:03:17","date_gmt":"2010-07-19T13:03:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bemorewithless.com\/?p=133"},"modified":"2022-09-14T09:49:06","modified_gmt":"2022-09-14T15:49:06","slug":"25-lessons-for-a-15-year-old-girl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bemorewithless.com\/25-lessons-for-a-15-year-old-girl\/","title":{"rendered":"25 Lessons For a 15 Year Old Girl"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"25<\/a><\/p>\n

I used to have a list of 101 things I wanted to accomplish in 1001 days. Then, I found other things I wanted to do, and stopped working on the list. One of my undone 101 things, was to write a letter to my teenage self. Recently, Raam Dev<\/a> wrote a some advice for his younger self<\/a> and reminded me that this was an important task.<\/p>\n

When I actually sat down and started writing, I realized that while I could have used the advice back then. I probably wouldn’t have listened, but maybe my 15 year old daughter will.<\/p>\n

Dear B on your 15th Birthday,<\/p>\n

I am so proud of the girl you have been, the person you are today, and the woman you will become. I hope one day, (maybe even today) that some of these lessons I’ve learned, will help make your journey even more powerful.<\/p>\n

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  1. Letting go is not the same as giving up.<\/li>\n
  2. If you find something that you really love doing, learn it, master it. Don’t worry if you don’t stick with it though, because it will come back to you.<\/li>\n
  3. A broken heart will hurt more than a broken arm. Don’t use it as an excuse to love less. You decide if the break weakens or strengthens your heart.<\/li>\n
  4. Love someone enough to make decisions that they might not like, even if that someone is you.<\/li>\n
  5. Always act from a place of compassion and you will change someone’s life.<\/li>\n
  6. You are skinnier than you think you are.<\/li>\n
  7. Sleep enough, you can play more tomorrow.<\/li>\n
  8. Don’t worry if you don’t know what you want to be when you grow up. Just decide who you want to be today.<\/li>\n
  9. Save some money. Compound interest is your friend.<\/li>\n
  10. God will be there when you are ready and he is big enough for your questions.<\/li>\n
  11. Build more relationships in your neighborhood than you do on your computer.<\/li>\n
  12. Don’t wait until you are 40 to try eggplant and other foods that you think are weird.<\/li>\n
  13. Eat more greens.<\/li>\n
  14. If someone tells you something that you don’t want to hear. Listen anyway. Someday, you might appreciate the advice.<\/li>\n
  15. Never put anything you don’t want the world to know, today or in 50 years, in writing.<\/li>\n
  16. Your world is not the<\/em> world.<\/li>\n
  17. Laugh hard.<\/li>\n
  18. Cry.<\/li>\n
  19. Apologize.<\/li>\n
  20. You can’t fix everything.<\/li>\n
  21. Be kind to yourself. Treat your body well, it’s the only one you get!<\/li>\n
  22. Music really can make a bad day better.<\/li>\n
  23. Credit cards never get you where you want to go.<\/li>\n
  24. Going through bad stuff and spending time with bad people, makes you really appreciate good stuff and good people.<\/li>\n
  25. I am always here for you. Even when you think I’m not.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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