If you were to ask me a few months ago what inspires me I would have come up empty handed. It's easy if you think of it in your daily life. What inspires your life? Well money for one! You can't do much of anything without money. Is that really inspiring? Why do you even need it?
For me it wasn't so much about finding inspiration as it was about meeting goals. I have a drive to succeed. I may not know exactly at what yet, but I have a set of goals that will allow me to find my way down my own path.
When I graduated high school I wasn't thinking about what career I wanted to pursue. I was thinking about my boyfriend, having my own place and someday getting married.
Fun ruled my daily activities with no thoughts of saving for retirement and life beyond tomorrow because let's face it.. that's not fun! As I'm approaching 30 I realize the mistakes I've made, but you can't change them so you just have to accept them and move on. I still struggle with school and knowing what I want to do, but now it is with a more realistic mindset of the future and where I want to be.
By setting goals, I have found inspiration in strange and unexpected places. I've been finishing up my paralegal certificate and have decided to finally finish up my bachelor degree. I'm tired of making mediocre money and desiring for more of a challenge in the workplace. When looking at what major I would like to complete I realized that there are small steps needed to complete any goal. I have wanted to become a judge for the past 10 years, but you usually have to have a law degree. I kept thinking that I needed to get a bachelor's that would lead right into law. Then I began thinking, if I graduated with a political science degree would that be hindering on the types of positions I could work? What if I had other things I enjoyed also that I would be sacrificing opportunities for?
I started with Twitter a few months earlier and discovered the Zappos culture and how much I enjoyed reading the human resource articles and social branding. Honestly, that sounded like a whole lot more fun that political science. By spreading out my wings and setting goals, like finishing my bachelors, I felt inspired to reach out in a new an unexpected direction and have found something new. I haven't given up on my goal on law school and honestly you can go to law school with any degree, but if law school doesn't work out, then I'm ok with that because I still found something else I really enjoy.
Even if your goal is organizing your closet, by setting that goal you might find you really enjoy do-it-yourself projects.
Always set goals for yourself - that way you're always facing towards the future.
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