What’s your game plan?

Swag Mama
Remember when you were in play and junior school how the teachers always seemed to ask what you wanted to be when you grew up? What was your reply? Did you say doctor, lawyer, president, pilot, soldier, nurse, teacher, athlete, graphic designer, musician, dancer, chess champion or something else?

Now that you are teen has that ambition changed? Do you even have a target career of you are just drifting along happy to let life run its course?

One of the most important life skills that we all need is the ability to decide where your life is going.

Think of your life as a journey. If you know where you want to go then you are able to plan how you will get there and what you will do when you arrive.

But without a destination in mind, you will just keep walking and never get anywhere.

But just knowing where you want to go, without actually working to get there is useless.

Some teens say that they would like to be rich and famous but cannot say how that will happen. It is like inviting people to a party when you do not even have a single drink. Dumb, right?

You need a game plan. Some careers need very high academic results. Other careers need an early start. For example, if you would like to work on an international cruise liner then you must learn as many international languages as possible.

So first of all define your dream, set the steps that will take you there and start taking them. When you do that you become a visionary instead of a dreamer.

Do you know that academic intelligence is not the most important ingredient for success? The biggest difference between most successful people and the failures is not IQ. It is because the first group plans for success and the second group waits for success to come to them.

So are you a hotshot or a loser? What’s your game plan?