Emma Joan

Evening dolls,

As college becomes more stressful and the end of my degree looms closer with every passing week, I am often left thinking what the next step is. For the first time in my life, I do not have a plan. There was always something to go back to once the summer had ended. While September always meant a new year be it school or college, it is no longer like that. Therefore, what am I to do, what is anyone to do when the time finally comes to dawn that cap and gown and step out into the real world. I have always had very high aspirations in life anyone who knows me will be well aware of this, but I have always felt a little discouraged in going after these dreams in fear of FAILURE! I think failure is one of my biggest fears, and it is stopping me from actually going out and giving my dreams a shot. I know I cannot be the only one that feels this way. Therefore, from now onwards I am going to take small steps in trying to work toward my goals and try to kick the fear of failure in the face. I wanted to share a bit of knowledge that helped me to be able to come to this positive realisation! I hope it can help you in coming to the realisation that you can do whatever it is you put your mind to! So without further ramblings the question I would like to pose is:

What if money was no object?

If you could do anything, you wanted what would it be?

Majority of people follow a safe guard in life and go for a career that they do not really want because they see getting the money as the most important aspect of a career. If you do this then you spend your life completely wasting your time. Do things that you enjoy doing, follow your dreams. The older you get the more you realise that life really is short. Each year seems to go faster than the next and life as much as we would all love it too has no pause button. Being in a job you do not enjoy in order to go on living really is not living at all. By doing something you love, you will eventually become a master in it. There is somebody interested in everything. You just need to find what it is you love doing. The real you is not a puppet not something the whole universe pushes around, to you, you are the whole universe. Everybody is an I. When it comes to your life, you are the only one who can truly know what path you should follow. Your parents only want to see you in a successful job with a stable life. However as stability is something most people crave it is not something that can guarantee happiness. Is it not better to do something you love than to do something based on how much money you make?

I believe that if you have a dream follow it otherwise you will be left wondering in years to come 'what if'? I do not believe that once you made a choice you should regret it, at that time in your life that is what you wanted! Something good always follows the choices you make no matter if you cannot see it at the time. Trust me you will eventually see that it was the right choice. It normally leads you to something or someone great. I don’t think that you should follow the norm if that’s not what you want to do! Do you really want to go through life hating your job? I do that already (it’s a part time job to feed the shopping addiction) but I have learned from it that, that is not what I want to go through for the majority of my life.

Not everyone is going to support you in your choices; they may even try to change your mind. It is just a matter of being confident in your decisions and knowing what your goals are. You can achieve anything you put your mind to and don’t let others tell you otherwise. It is important to remember that everyone started somewhere, and you don’t have to be great to start, but you need to start to become great.  People will always discourage you in life, but chose to ignore it, it’s not their life after all.

I think another think that is important to remember is for the most part you are not going to succeed on your first try. It is okay to fail, failure makes us stronger as people and makes us that little bit more determined to succeed. Life is a journey not a destination. Always keep that in mind.

I hope you can relate to this post and gain motivation from it. Everyone has aspirations; the question is what steps are you going to take to achieve them?

Emma x