Figure Out What You Want and Go After It

Figure it out what it is you want to do. We are only here for a moment.

There is something about watching old historical film footage of people that once walked this earth. This very same modern world that are we in now. Their footsteps buried underneath ours. Their stories unknownest to us.

Yet they too struggled with the familiar problems that face us humans. What are we going to do with our lives. How do we figure things out. How can we take care of ourselves and our loved ones.

And for those who are in the space of building financial wealth in the States—how do we take advantage of being in one of the most prosperous countries regardless of current politics and problems that we face? For me, it’s questions like, how can I build my own business in the digital age where A.I. is starting to change the direction of our nation?

For some, it will benefit as much as it hinders others. I have found it personally useful for my own life and even providing opportunities that weren’t once there such as now being able to have editing services at my hand. A confidant for any conversation at my discretion.

I write this after a long evening watching movies with the teenager and once it ended I found myself eager to get back on here and just write. Add more words and insight to the blog as it is important to me as much as school is in this current chapter of my life.

But beyond the currents, I am realizing that it is still important to look beyond the years of school to understand what it is exactly I want for my life. How do I want it to look?

Yes, I plan to have a salary and work a 9-5 after graduation but not forever. I prefer the idea of owning productive assets, both personal and indirect through the stock exchange, to be the bread and butter of my household income. This is how I want to use the next 20 years of my life and then be privileged to enjoy the following decades.

I get the feeling that I also prefer meeting someone who has also taken the steps to automate their life, as eventually, I see travel in my future and spending certain seasons in different parts of the world. Knowing that we are all only here for a moment. For a blink of an eye.

I am becoming less concerned with taking chances and more concerned with not taking them. I don’t want to wake up 20 years from now thinking of what could have been, what it could have been like to live like the other half. The half that wasn’t scared to just go for it.

It doesn’t matter whether it was constructing wealth, selling everything of value and moving to a foreign country, or changing a career at the age of 40—they all hold the same level of respect from me as I become more aware of my own aging and health. More aware of my own mortality.

Understand that the world is fine to allow you to waste your life away. To waste your potential. So ask yourself, what is it that you want out of life? Then, work on designing your life around it over the years. Small efforts compound, and before you know it, you’ll wake up inside the world you designed for yourself. It has happened time and time again for me

This is the old footage that inspired this post.