Advice on Adulting

Right now I'm rereading Letters to a Young Poet by Rilke and it's just full of excellent advice but I certainly didn't receive this advice as well in my early 20s. I don't really even remember reading this the first time. I'm not one that always receives advice happily. I do have a few people in my life now that I seek advice from for specific situations, but I haven't always had people that I sought advice from on purpose. I was like a toddler in a 20-year-old body! "I do it myself." That's what my toddlers say over and over. 

I listened to an audio book this week of  The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen Covey. In it you could listen to Covey speaking at a seminar about his book and one of the concepts he discussed is how we mature as humans. First we are dependent, then independent, and finally interdependent. I read this book once, I think. It was at least 10 years ago, which probably explains why I don't remember reading advice!

Toddler to 20s for many is one big struggle for independence and to take care of ourselves. Then when you get to your late 20s to early 30s you start to realize independence (sometimes referred to in social media right now as 'adulting') stinks! It's too hard to do alone. So now we work towards interdependence. Relationships and networking become as important as any achievement in both personal and business life.

I hope I haven't made it sound like I've got things all figured out because I don't at all. Another decade from now I might look back at this post (if the internet is still a thing) and laugh at my youth.