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Dream big
is a repetitive statement young entrepreneurs will hear, as i do. When you think about it, what are you dreaming about? Shouldn't you just be dreaming to live the "ultimate" life the one everyone has been talking about the one that you work for, and if you have it you really don't need anything else? The "American Dream" (sorry to all non us readers just tryin to get a point across).
The only problem for me is my dream, is not to live a perfect "American Dream" lifestyle. It is to go far beyond that. I do not particularly want to work 5 days a week and come home to my family and that's it, that does not fulfill my dream. I want people to know me, I crave attention. I desire more than anything that with this post and also in the future with my words i can inspire people like me to feel how i feel, to not follow the crowd.
Those facts are my main motivation main inspiration. Whenever I'm in my room up until 5 am every day, quietly working so i don't wake up my parents, on my companies start up and operation plans I think about nothing else but NOT to follow the crowd into this perpetual nightmare.
Hmm this is annoying also. Parents are going to pay ~100k dollars for my four year college degree. That makes me livid. Pay a enormous amount of money so when you are done you can make more but still be doing what everyone does. That doesn't appeal to me. pshh by the time i pay off that money i will be spending it again on my kids college degree(s) (when i have kids:P) That path is also the American Dream. Why can't my dream of having a lakefront house the size of Rhode Island(exaggeration) and having 5 cars be the American Dream ever?
So the motivation im trying to feed everyone is so you dont give up on your ideas. Don't take no for an answer. If you fail at something or things aren't going as you planned don't worry about it. Keep going and someday with enough time and effort you will
live bigger.
It seems we have similar dreams haha. Anyway a poem you might like:
"I bargained with life for a penny,
And life would pay no more,
However I begged at evening,
When I counted my scanty store.
"For life is a just employer,
He gives you what you ask,
But once you have set the wages,
Why, you must bear the task.
"I worked for a menial's hire,
Only to learn dismayed,
That any wage I had asked of life,
Life would have willingly paid."
Determine never to be idle...it is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.
- Thomas Jefferson