Feeling lost and stuck in your 20s? This is what you need to realize. 

Thank you so much for this absolutely insightful and helpful video! To summarize: 1) Keep things in perspective 2) Focus on the Good/Gratitude 3) Share struggles/feelings with others 4) Try to enjoy the journey

My favorite line from this video is "appreciated times of struggle are far more valuable than rushed-through periods of success." I love the challenge of enjoying the process because it's a reminder to live in the present and absorb the human experience.

Thanks for the encouragement. I just turned 26, with no degree, no real savings and still crashing with my parents. I have the desire to go out and work hard, I just don’t know what for. Stuck is the perfect way to describe it.

Well this made me feel a bit better. It always felt like I was a failure and my life was over even though I'm 20 years old. So many of my peers have done so much and I've just been barely hanging on in school and work. Glad to know I'm not alone.

I used to feel stuck by seeing everyone around me doing more, but I’ve told myself to stop comparing and that I’m on my own path. This is great content!

I’m grateful for access to the internet. Even the fact I get to watch this video is something I can be grateful for. We now have the opportunity to self educate on a level that is honestly mind-boggling.

Im almost able to figure out the idea that the most important thing in life is not about who was the most accomplished/who was the richest but it can be as simple as who enjoyed it the most.. I think life is not a "race" but an "adventure" so for now ill keep exploring life and try to enjoy discovering things along the way, good luck out there fellow travellers :)

Things I've been learning lately: comparison is definitely not a safe place, people have different contexts and stories, and people don't care with our progress as much as we think they do... realizing those things has been giving me the opportunity to live a more balanced and peaceful life in my 20's! So I fully agree with ur tips! Thnks for this video! 🔥

Life is like a video game. You want the highest level and most expensive car the whole time, but as soon as you have played through it completely and archived everything it gets boring. For me a good life means to have the possibility to learn new things and to always have a goal in front of you to archive. 🤙🏼 Great content, keep it up! 😊

Right place and the right time + connections - you’re so right about that!

I'm constantly in this loop of thinking I have enough time & don't have enough time LOL thanks for the reminder that I've actually just started 😭

I am grateful for this video! Made me feel so much better, I’m 23 and I’ve been feeling like an absolute failure, even though I have a job during this absolute unpredictable time. Thank you for putting this out. Means a lot❤️

I feel really lost right now and really behind the people my age. Thank you Hayden. That's really freeibg and helping seeing things more clearly/getting a better perspective.🤗😊👍

I’m 24 and feeling a bit lost! I’m appreciative for my first son who was born at 28 weeks and I watched him fight for his life. My Dr. said he may not pull through but they will try everything to keep him alive. He is now 3 and you can’t even tell he was a preemie. My OB said that my next would most likely be born a preemie but he made it to 37 weeks and is a healthy 1 1/2 year old now. My most difficult time was deciding to leave my ex husband 3 years ago. Realizing it was the best year of my life I escaped the abuse after 6 years (I was 16 and he was 26.) After he moved back into his mom’s house it hit me no more abuse and I’m free. It’s been almost 3 years divorced (the best 3 years of my life!) Career wise I feel lost. I relied on dancing and adult content for money, I’m ready to be free from it. I want to feel like I’m more than just a body or empty shell.

I've worked as a Data Scientist, and I'm happy that I realised that I hate that job in spite of being paid really well by going through so much pain and depression, and taking some decisions like quitting my proper MNC job while I was getting huge amounts of external validation!!

And #3 is why I started my podcast Unstuck Yourself with Crystal Simmons because I wanted to be around people who would uplift me as I shared my struggles and others would do the same ❤

I am so grateful for my current volunteer work as a coach for my local college club waterpolo team. I am so grateful for my little orange tabby cat. I am so grateful for roommates who are in the trenches with me as entrepreneurs also in their 20's. This is beautiful. You are beautiful. Thank you.

I am grateful for people who have supported me, when I didn't even feel worthy of support. Some of these people I know, some I have only conversed with online. I'm 24 years old and struggling with finding the right path for me. Both my older and younger siblings have pursued college degrees and are carving out lives for themselves. Meanwhile I have some health issues that have held me back, and I'm still living with my parents with not much on the horizon. I don't even have a driver's permit/car yet. It's really discouraging to see people my age or younger who kind of have their futures mapped out, meanwhile I feel stuck and completely lacking direction. I can only hope that I will one day find SOMETHING that will at least be a stepping stone to a career and lifestyle that I can truly enjoy AND hopefully be proud of. I am insanely grateful for the people who have shared their own fears with me, and have told me that it's okay to be apprehensive about the future, while still looking forward to being independent. The people who have reminded me that I don't have to fit the mold in order to find a place where I fit in, have been extremely encouraging.

Hard to choose just one thing to be grateful for after watching this!

Just finished watching. I’m 24 years old , got my bachelors in exercise science. But still feel lost and don’t know what to do. Sometimes I feel I ain’t doing nothin with my life which sounds crazy. But after watching I feel a little better.

I’m 25 and unemployed because I needed a break my last job was making me lose it and I feel like everybody around me is rich and I’m a complete loser

Wow…How do you not have more followers?? This content is amazing! Advice for people in their 20’s feeling stuck, social media comparisons, figuring life out, all of these things resonated with me so hard and the biggest part that resonated with me was the fact that the best part of my life hasn’t even happened yet. I think that’s something that helps me to keep going. Keep up the great work Hayden!! You just earned a loyal subscriber

Brilliant truth of & for LIVING!!! Just think 🤔 You can make THE ENERGY OF & FOR JOY THE BALANCED CORE EVERY DAY OF YOUR LIFE!!!

Grateful to have had a dope conversation with you the other day and so much so you shared this video with me!

I worked so hard in my 20's for an employer who wrecked my health. Go take a break, kids, time to quit. Time to lie down.

That last point was really profound. Glad I heard that at the age of 22, could've easily gone another 10 or 20 years feeling bad without that in mind

Thanks for the insight! It was really sensible unlike those overly positive/motivation cringe videos with dramatic background music.

First of your videos I’m seeing, thanks for the great advice! The way you speak makes it very easy to listen to

I'm grateful for the awareness one can gain about life, the world, and about each other. It all helps us grow and understand ourselves better as we all take our steps through life!

I really needed to see this today. I often feel lost, and I'm late 30s. Although I have success in some parts of my life, I feel behind in others. Not only is this in comparison to friends and family, but I feel the social pressure at my age to get a move on with certain things (like starting a family, having more wealth). It bothers the hell out of me because in my early 20s I had achieved what I wanted to growing up. You know when kids are asked what they want to be when they grow up, and it's usually something pretty crazy or near unattainable? Well, I did it. And even cut it short having ticked that box. I've struggled to keep the same sort of motivation with things since.. I know I can achieve almost anything I want...just not really sure WHAT I'm working towards day-to-day.

I keep my fingers crossed for you!

@6:22 I am grateful for where I am today and all the ups and downs I've been through that led me here.

Thank you♥️ This was a big hug.

You’re amazing I needed this

Thank you for this

Thank you for doing this video, it helped me a lot

Just found you and love your videos lol Time to binge 💕

I'm grateful that I found this video......last night was really heavy......bc I was constantly thinking about others achievements and was saying negative stuffs about me and my life to myself.......Thanks dude for this video and sending love and tight hugs......

You have a very calming energy ! I needed this , thank you !!

Thanks friend, love you bro.

Right place at the right time for sure 💯

I needed this video! Thank you so much! I need to focus on what is going well and enjoy the process during times of struggle because I will figure it out and it will get better :)

this is great man i really appreciate this movie

I needed this. Great recommendation from RU-vid here. Well performed!

I am grateful that I am getting to see a great video on a great channel at the time of its inception.

Thanks man. I was surprised how come there's only 500 subs.. there should be a hundred gran!

Not making great content? Bro. You're there. This video is absolutely great man - very inspirational perspective. And yeah, I definitely feel lost/stuck quite often. But definitely enjoying the process of figuring it out!

I’m 25 right now and felt calmed by this video. I’m completely feeling behind in life and stuck. And looking at Instagram and the 30 under 30 lists makes me feel awful. Thanks for the advice and talking about something that I think most of us go through.

I really appreciated the simplicity of the video, the editing and the content. Thank you for sharing :)

What an amazing video. Keep up the amazing work! This helped me so much and was one of the only videos that actually helped me 😀

thanks for the video!

I'm grateful for the clarity I've been gaining lately in my craft, daily life and relationship with my parents. It's better now. I'm also grateful to have found this video which gave me this approach ( looking at the things that are going well rather than calling it gratitude journaling). It resonates more with me. Thank you very much 🤗.

It has been a while since I've enjoyed a RU-vid video this much. I was so into it omg, and could relate so bad, especially that quote by Elizabeth Gilbert, simply astonishing and so well said. Great job, wish you luck!!

Man, I needed this video. Better said than others I’ve been watching on this subject. You did well, my friend.

Great content, great perspective. Gratitude practices have been scientifically proven to increase overall health and longevity - wish this was something we talked about more in our culture! Great stuff here, keep going!!

Whoa! What a video!

My mentor

Bro Wtf? How can you keep making videos for so many years when you only have just a few views in most of them? I cant believe your tenacity. I really wanna know how can you keep doing it when you dont have results yet. Dont misunderstand me i dont mean something bad im just curious as to how you still can keep going? I'm amazed.

I love you ❤

For some reason I always have to remind myself to enjoy the process of the struggle…I blame that m&m commercial when the therapist tell the lil candy men that “you feel stuck because you are stuck” (lol ik that’s childish but…you know) ….so I always end up forcing the process instead of relaxing

Eventually you will figure it out-thanks

I really like this. I'm going to do a series on the issues of hustle culture and over expectations. Let me know if you'd like to do an interview on those type of matters. My about page has the ways to contact me . Either way keep up the great videos

Grateful just to be breathing

I’m grateful for the blueberries I’m eating cuz they’re bomb

I’m a cleaner which I don’t mind it, plus my family have always been doing low wage jobs and sometimes l need should do better..

What's one thing you're grateful for right now?

I just want a job that I don’t hate that pays well

Heyyy

Ah yes, getting to live 7 more years til 32 lol

Why are you only going to get to figure out your life purpose once? That doesn't make sense.

No one cares about my struggles as a man

Comparison is a big part of advertising and mass media, which informs the way we function on the street and in the workplace . Watching commercials, action movies and Romance flicks with actors who are sexier, smarter, tougher and slicker than us teaches us to feel we are not enough from a very young age. This leads to depression, rage, a loss of willpower and it also leads to massive envy. To say nothing about what happens starting in kindergarten all the way up to senior graduation in highschool. We're taught in a consumer culture that buying tons of stuff, getting "good grades" (instead of learning useful craft & labor skills), flexing our status within the system and scoring perfect peer conformity is "success", instead of honoring contentment, family values and the passing down of strong legacies to our kids. Were trained to become narcissistic, mentally ill, passive, guilty and delusional, not realistic, determined, resilient and sane. I unplugged from Television for a while now and never use (and could never get why anyone in their right mind would use) most popular social media apps like Facebook, Instagram or Twitter. It helped me find so much peace of mind. I'd say try getting out to nature more and try getting back into reading, even if it's only for 30 minutes a day, to increase your attention span and your thinking capacity is helpful. Read books that you personally enjoy and that benefit you spiritually and even financially. Share your knowledge with others face to face, those who you actually trust. Most people don't care about humbly learning new things, they've been trained out of common sense, so don't cast your pearls before swine, as the saying goes. Once you realize the corporate culture you live in is in a psychological war against you, your family and your self worth so it can make money off of your brokenness, then you'll see that all you have to do is unplug from the message that your TV set, your peers and your parents say, which is: "You are not enough if you don't buy X, Y, & Z. You must marry at this age, earn these degrees & licenses, have a house in the suburbs with this square footage, have this type of car and have this income or you are a worthless and weak loser." True winners set the standards for their own success. It is between them and God. The true losers allow others to dictate how they think, walk, talk and act on a second to second basis. A society that sets its own people up for a quarter and mid life crisis isn't very sustainable, obviously. Were not evolved to live in oversized metropolises and run on miserable wage treadmills to please peer groups, middle managers and corporate CEOS, were born to be free, moral, self determining and self reliant people who can defend their rights, have their own land, cultivate that land and to raise tough families who will not be pushed around by big business and big government into living standard issue, mass produced lies that don't fit who they are.