Young, Fearless and Fed Up
Take the leap, follow your passion and pursue the new American Dream.I had followed my passion and started my own business doing something I truly loved.
it’s essential that you are able to marry your work and what you love. This passion will ignite the minds of your potential clients and connections. Your business has to be a reflection of what you are already willing to pour countless hours into. Your passion and enthusiasm for your business has to connect to your why, be a part of your own experience, and is ultimately what will make you successful.
Unfortunately, many young people today don't realize the types of risks they can afford to take. If you don't take risks you’ll never accomplish most of your goals and you’ll never know if your dreams could have come true.
We’re socialized to believe that the path to success is to graduate from college, take an entry level position with an established company and work our way up the corporate ladder of the American dream. Our generation faces one small problem with this plan: that world does not exist anymore. It's a fantasy to expect anyone or any company to provide a path to riches.
If you’re young and hungry, why not go take a chance on launching yoru business? Most likely, you have limited responsibilities with no kids or mortgage payments and only a deep passion to obtain your dream; all keys for success.
Look at Mark Zuckerberg, the creator of Facebook. He started the site as a hobby out of his college dorm room and turned it into the global phenomenon we know it as today. He had an idea and a vision and took a huge risk. Now he's worth billions, all because he went with his gut and didn't worry about what others would think.
How about those three guys from YouTube? Steven Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim were PayPal employees who started a little website in their free time for users to upload their own videos for everyone to see.
Don't get the wrong impression, this kind of success doesn't come easy; it involves a tremendous amount of hard work and a fire burning passion to keep you motivated on a daily basis. You have to be willing to take big risks, there are a people who talk about doing it but they just can't seem to take the leap. It really comes down to being ready for a better the quality of life.
If you decide to take the leap, you can’t expect everything to go according to plan; just know mistakes are inevitable. You have to keep pushing through, though; don’t let one mistake ruin your opportunity for success. Life is full of obstacles and hardships, you need to work through them--by doing this it will better you as a person.
Don't settle for the safe bet, push the limits and expand your horizons. Take a risk, what’s the worst that can happen? At least you can tell yourself, you went for it!
