As my 25th summer began and I found myself reflecting on the end of my 25th year, I decided to challenge myself to come up with 25 things I’ve learned along the way, which I tweeted out in a series on Twitter.

Here, I have presented them all. I am not sure they are necessarily in any particular order of importance. I did not plan them out. I captured them as they came to me over a series of mornings, so I am not sure any one is more important than another. Though as the list went on, I did, admittedly, plan to save “relationships” and “better” for somewhere near the end, which I would hope would not come as a surprise to those who have followed the recent years of my journey here on my blog.

Are there more? Yes. Certainly. And there are probably some lessons that should have made this list over some that did, but that’s not how it played out, so I just went with what showed up during my morning musings. And I decided to share them all here with you.

Happy summer. Hope all is well.

Do. Reflect. Do Better.