#2- Achieving what we want in life

A pretty cool thing happened to me today in class. We had a guest speaker from an Ad agency come in, a really cool and creative guy, and towards the end of his lecture he showed us a picture of his ad agency's founder's jet. Then he asked, "Who here knows they will have a jet someday". Me and two other people raised our hands in a class of 80. Then he said, "Those who didn't raise their hands will never have a jet, because you don't even believe you will." If someone had asked me that question a year ago I would of said, "Yeah I would like one, but it's not like its ever gonna happen, that's just too crazy". Well, is it? 

Right now we live in a world where anything is possible, where young students build up websites not even realizing the momentum they're about to create and become millionaires before they even hit their 25th birthday. Where all you have to do is see things in a creative way, and everyone will catch on. Anything is possible now. You need to start believing that you can have whatever it is that you want.  It's not enough to just say, "It would be cool to have that one day", you need to really know that it's going to be yours. You need to already be thinking how it's going to look on the inside, what kind of colors you are going to use, how excited you are going to be the first time you see this jet rolling out of the hanger as a man comes up to you with the final papers and says "Its all yours". You need to see yourself sitting in one of those plushy leather recliners, having a drink, and talking to whoever it is that's on the jet with you as you two fly to an important business meeting or event. SEE YOURSELF THERE!  KNOW that it is yours and go make it happen!

 I know that most of you out there don't just want to be alive (a person with a pulse), you want to LIVE! The reason you want to make money is so that you can get the things you want, live the kind of lifestyle you've always dreamed of, or even use that money to give back to your parents or to your favorite charity. However,  you shouldn't live to work, you should work to Live! Working should be a means to an end. So on that note make sure to get into a field that truly makes you happy! Because if you are going to be working for many years, you should be enjoying it and doing something you love.

So I leave you with three ideas on what I feel like you should really be thinking about to achieve what you want in life:

1. Find something that truly makes you happy and make that your profession. Trust me, you will be thanking me 10 years down the line when you are walking around with a positive attitude and great energy and your friends who chose to just go with a job that paid them a little more money, are miserable.

2. Believe that you can have/achieve whatever it is that you want in life, no matter how far fetched it seems. The people who truly believe they will have what they want are the ones who actually get it in the end. They don't let obstacles (money, time) drown their ideas. The find a way to work around them because they know that one day, what they are dreaming in their head each night will become reality.

3. If you can find a new and innovative way of doing something, don't hold back! Do it, because times are changing. Traditional jobs are a thing of the past. Now everyone will be required to be an entrepreneur. This doesn't necessarily mean starting your own company, you can also be an entrepreneur within the company you work for now. This means finding creative solutions to problems within your field of work, instead of just doing the routine day to day job. Think on your toes, think of what's in store for the future, or better yet,  be the one who leads us to that future!

Anything is possible if you don't hold yourself back.

With all my love,

Hennely