How do you decide what it is you want to do for the rest of your life? As a child, we create grandiose dreams for our futures. We want to be doctors, lawyers, and presidents. Then life steps in and we change our minds. We grow and we expand and become new people while holding onto the dreams of our childhood. We grow and realize that we can't add as well we though so being a scientist is out of the picture. We grow and realize that we don't like blood, so being a doctor is out of the picture. Someone finally lets us know that being a lawyer takes years of study and reading so we no longer want to pursue a career in law... And then we come to this point:
What is it that fills our heart with joy? What are you so passionate about that you would do it for free? What is your calling?
Then comes the choices. You are good at several different things because God has blessed you with many talents. You can read, write, plan, and add, so now what? Should you become a professor? A writer? A motivational speaker? Or do you branch out, think bigger, plan harder? Do you realize that setting your sights on the simple or the simply acceptable is disrespecting all that God has put into you?
Where do you place all your emphasis? If you want several degrees, are you supposed to go and get each of them? Or should you buckle down, stop being flightly and just do the first thing that you're good at?
As a child, we never know what we really want to do. We know what we see on television and that frames our aspirations. If you have seen doctors, lawyers, or even rappers on television, that is where our career ideals come from. The 80's generation saw the Cosby show, the 90's generation saw Living Single, the 2000's see Being Bobby Brown. So children grow up having no role models, and no real dreams... Only dreams predicated on superhuman abilities... Football or basketball players, or rappers.... Where have the dreams gone? And what will we do? How do you choose?
What is it that fills our heart with joy? What are you so passionate about that you would do it for free? What is your calling?
Then comes the choices. You are good at several different things because God has blessed you with many talents. You can read, write, plan, and add, so now what? Should you become a professor? A writer? A motivational speaker? Or do you branch out, think bigger, plan harder? Do you realize that setting your sights on the simple or the simply acceptable is disrespecting all that God has put into you?
Where do you place all your emphasis? If you want several degrees, are you supposed to go and get each of them? Or should you buckle down, stop being flightly and just do the first thing that you're good at?
As a child, we never know what we really want to do. We know what we see on television and that frames our aspirations. If you have seen doctors, lawyers, or even rappers on television, that is where our career ideals come from. The 80's generation saw the Cosby show, the 90's generation saw Living Single, the 2000's see Being Bobby Brown. So children grow up having no role models, and no real dreams... Only dreams predicated on superhuman abilities... Football or basketball players, or rappers.... Where have the dreams gone? And what will we do? How do you choose?
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