If you have any regrets now, what advice would you give to people younger than you?

Don’t start smoking… Starting to smoke was perhaps the worst decision I have ever made..

If you have a dream, follow it without fear and with all your heart. The more elaborately you plan what will happen when you succeed at Plan A, the more likely you are to need Plan B; and the farther you get with Plan B, the harder it is to get back to Plan A.

Don’t Regret.Instead use your past mistakes and learn from them for you future. Do what you believe is best for you in your heart and follow it. Dont back down from your feelings because of what others say and dont get discouraged if at first you dont succeed.

Don’t ever give up. When it all looks dark, say “this too will pass”.

Just remember, every second you live, you’re that much closer to death. Listen to your parents, you might think they’re stupid, but they probably know what they’re talking about.

Save your freakin money for a house!!! Forget all the toys, the going out to eat all the time, and the luxeries. I’m 25 years old now and my gf and I are struggling to give up the lifestyle we are used to be able to save and buy a house.

Do what you love, and success and money will follow.

Embrace failure and learn from your mistakes, because without failure you cannot be successful.

Good Luck!
R

Don’t do anything you wouldn’t be happy to have anyone important to you know. Then, you have nothing to hide, nothing to be ashamed of, no guilt, and… no regrets.

You might want to watch Steve Jobs Stanford Commencement Speech from 2005.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1R-jKKp3NA

When u hear the words I love u, get out of the relationship asap.

And Kermit the Frog’s 1996 Commencement Speech at Southampton College.

http://www.southampton.liu.edu/news/commence/1996/kermit.htm

I would recommend avoiding all forms of debt, especially credit cards. I never looked back once I paid mine off.

I can’t believe that I now earn the interest on my savings that I used to pay on monthly bank charges when I was younger.

this man is BEYOND a legend… amazing amazing speech he gives…and he is dying…

Randy Pausch is a married father of three, a very popular professor at Carnegie Mellon University—and he is dying. He is suffering from pancreatic cancer, which he says has returned after surgery, chemotherapy and radiation. Doctors say he has only a few months to live.

In September 2007, Randy gave a final lecture to his students at Carnegie Mellon that has since been downloaded more than a million times on the Internet. “There’s an academic tradition called the ‘Last Lecture.’ Hypothetically, if you knew you were going to die and you had one last lecture, what would you say to your students?” Randy says. “Well, for me, there’s an elephant in the room. And the elephant in the room, for me, it wasn’t hypothetical.”

his homepage
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~pausch/

the actual lecture
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ji5_MqicxSo

students give praise
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qbtuEpVJRsw

Advice on Life to College Graduates
http://www.school-for-champions.com/life/collegeadvice.htm

Advice for Living the Good Life
http://www.gardendigest.com/advice.htm

Avoid Sham Advice on Living ‘The Good Life’: Sizing Up The Science of Happiness
http://www.spring.org.uk/2008/01/avoid-sham-advice-on-living-good-life.php

For me it boils down to having a life that is exciting to live. I get a kick out of knowing that other people are interested in my life, but at the end of the day I’d take personal satisfaction over people thinking I have personal satisfaction.
http://www.betterthanyourboyfriend.com/how-to-have-an-interesting-life.htm

The Rate My Life Self-Help Quiz will ask you a number of questions and then compute your life rating. In addition, it will break down your score on the following categories: Mind, Body, Spirit, Love, Friends/Family, and Financial. Finally, it will analyze your scores. Please note that this quiz is intended for entertainment purposes only.
http://www.monkeyquiz.com/life/rate_my_life.html

Twenty Something Advice: Don’t plan your life based on what other people expect
http://www.genpink.com/twenty-something-advice-dont-plan-your-life-based-on-what-other-people-expect/

Tech tricks, tips and downloads for getting things done
http://lifehacker.com/

I wish someone had told me this when I was younger

‘Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, ‘who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, and fabulous?’ Actually, who are not to be? You are a child of the Universe. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing so enlightening about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you. We are born to make manifest the glory of god which is within us. It is not in just some of us, it is in all of us. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fears, our presence automatically liberates others.’

I believe that the attribution should be Nelson Mandela?

No it’s a popular misconception. It was Marianne Williamson from her book “A Return To Love”

i would say…never try to comment suicide…..what ever you are goin through deal with it its only making you stronger.