You're listening to the Hartman podcast, reclaiming biblical masculinity in a world of solviles. Welcome to this episode of the Hard Men Podcast. I am your host Eric Khan.

And in this episode we are going through part two of our series how to get the most out of your 20s

how to live in your 20s so that you set up the rest of your life for relative success. You're aiming at the right TELOS and you can get to 40 and

feel comfortable and happy as few regrets as possible with the decisions based on the decisions you made in your 20s.

So in last episode, we were talking about the pitfalls and the bad paths and the bad advice that people so often give worldly advice in your 20s and it can really shipwreck

What you want to accomplish with your life. It's not something that can't be redeemed and that Christ doesn't work through.

So again, if you have been through those things, God is sovereign and he can work it out and we can

repent and he can help us and we can make restitution as it were. So don't feel dejected if you're 40 and you've made these mistakes. But I have talked to a lot of people after I published that first episode and they were like yeah man that's so accurate I'm 40 you're absolutely right I wish I could go back and help some of those younger people

Unfortunately they can a lot of times so that they don't make those mistakes.

So again today we're continuing with the argument that how you live in your 20s, the choices

you make.

Again they set the trajectory for the next couple of decades of your life.

Again, today we're going to talk about the positive aspects of this, which decisions, what are the key choices and key things you should be leaning into so that you can have good results.

So again, last time pitfalls, this time the positive side of the equation. Now as we jump into the

episode today I want to lay out a couple of I guess what I'll call guiding

principles to frame our discussion in today's episode.

So first of all, your 20s are largely about what I'm going to call the season of seeds. Not all seasons in life are the same and

when we're young one of the things I remember especially in in my 20s, I didn't even

fathom the concept of seasons, right? You've actually lived through so little of

life and because there's so much change in your teenage years, you know, going from high school to driving a car to getting married,

moving on with your life. There's so many milestones that you fail. It's such a blur. you fail to recognize that there really are seasons to life.

And you know you start having young kids and you think, this is the season I'll always be in and

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