Two decades!! Can you believe that the Bronnie is 20 years old? For an independent community publication to reach this milestone is truly astounding. Do I wish we knew what we now know when we started off? That something like lockdown would lie ahead one day? Nope. But there are 20 things I wish someone had told me when I was 20 years old. Here they are:

1. One of the greatest myths is that entrepreneurs had it all figured out before they started. Here’s the truth: They didn’t. Here’s another truth: They still don’t.
2. You don’t have to know the exact route or even the exact form what-it-is-you-want will take. “It may come through doors that at this moment you don’t even know exist.” – Christy Whitman.
3. There are a huge variety of radio signals being transmitted through our airwaves. Yet you can only hear the one you tune into. Your experience of life is like that. The dial is in your hand, girlfriend.
4. Things will go pear-shaped. You will be overwhelmed. Instead of trying to manage changes you have no power over, build a set of tools that can help you manage your own feelings.
5. “Try not. Do or do not do. There is no try.” – Yoda.
6. You might not really want what you say you want; you might unconsciously relish that which you’re getting out of not having it. – Kelly Brogan.
7. Being a people pleaser is not the same as being a nice person. Pleasers tend to cover up their own feelings, steer clear of confrontation and agree to plans they’re not actually interested in. If you’re one, the people around you are probably confused. They don’t get to see the real you. – Reniel Anca.
8. There is no path. Paths are made by walking. – Antonio Machado.
9. “Let go of the labels. Just feel what you are feeling . . . riding the waves of ‘up’ and ‘down’, ‘good’ and ‘bad’, ‘weak’ and ‘strong’, until you see that they are all inadequate to fully describe your experience. Be with the experience itself. Trust in your deepest strength of all: to be present, to be wakeful.” – Jon Kabat-Zinn.
10. Before you decide anything, ask yourself: Will this be an expression of who I am?
11. “Do what you’re doing while you’re doing it. Don’t do what you’re not doing while you’re not doing it.” – Kyle Kowalski.
12. “There is no such thing as a problem without a gift for you in its hands. You seek problems because you need their gifts.” – Richard Bach.
13. It takes one to know one. Who you are can be revealed to you by what you see in others. 
14. “Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.” – Anaïs Nin.
15. “Boredom is the pain of unused potential; it’s a disconnection to everything we can offer the world and vice versa.” – Gustavo Razzetti.
16. Like attracts like. That which you think, at any moment, attracts unto itself other thoughts that are like it. “If something you want is slow to come to you, it can be for only one reason: You are spending more time focused upon its absence than you are about its presence.” – Abraham Hicks.
17. The story you’re telling yourself about something that is happening is more important than the happening itself. When stressed, ask yourself: What am I telling myself about what I’m experiencing?
18. The unknown can be absolutely terrifying. Until we remember that we have never known. We look for ways we can control and feel safe. That we can control is the great delusion. Let go of imagining the worst-case scenario, and realize there are many other possibilities, including the best-case scenario. – Kelly Brogan.
19. When working with animals – if you act as if you only have 15 minutes, the task will take you a day. When acting as if you have the entire day to do it, the task will take you 15 minutes.
20. “Here is a test to find whether your mission on earth is finished: If you’re alive it isn’t.” – Richard Bach.

And we’re alive, girlfriend! The possibilities are endless. So, raise your glass to the Bronnie: Here’s to the path we’ll make by walking it together.