by W.Medina
It's amazing, the American dream that is. How many have heard the saying - In America, the streets are paved with gold. Sure it's usually immigrants who are more familiar with this saying. And you might think that current Americans would know better to believe that making money in America is so easy but they do. Hundreds if not millions of people are waiting, just sitting around waiting for money to fall out of the sky. Or they believe that their big break is just around the corner. Even worst, all their hopes and dreams rest squarely on the chance that they pick the correct lucky numbers in the lotto.
I guess this is why most people love to watch shows like American Idol, it's even more shocking to see the contestants reaction when they realize that to win, you need more than just an opportunity and talent. Yes America is filled with people who have made it big with sheer dumb luck, or being in the right place at the right time. But nine times out of ten - people succeed because they take chances - correction - calculated risk. People who take calculated risk succeed because they plan, count all the factors, understand that there is room for failure - and learn from their mistakes. Luck is a factor in success, but even luck is some what calculated in the risk.
The reason people fail - is because they fail to plan. If you're waiting for the next big thing to fall onto your lap - get comfortable because it might be a very long wait. But if you want to succeed, in what ever it is that you have set your goal to be - work for it and take calculated risk. Plan, ask questions, do some research, talk to people who have success, learn from others mistakes and especially from your own mistakes. Oh, and learn a simple motto from President Roosevelt: "Never give up, never give up, never, never, never..."
One of the great things about this generation is that we have a world of free information at our disposal. We have the public library, mentors willing to share their knowledge, and most of all - the internet. The internet has opened a world of knowledge to millions of people world wide who until the easy access of the internet, never new how possible the impossible truly is.
I heard a non-politically correct joke - it goes like this: People are always trying to associate the Mexican community with the afro-american community because we're all considered low class citizens. But I don't think Mexicans would have made good slaves because they work to hard. The master would have asked them to work the field and they would have said - it's already done master, and by the way, my sister knitted you a sweater, sis show master the sweater you made him. [ Sedric the entertainer ]
But the reality is that the reason people don't succeed is because their afraid of work and the one's who work hard, do not realize that they are better off doing more than just working for someone else. It has taken the Hispanic community more than thirty years to realize that if they work together they can build more than what has taken America centuries to accomplish. Just look at china, considered a sleeping dragon no more. Now china holds in its hand the ability not just to be a super power but to influence the economy of the entire world.
So if you want to achieve your American dream - consider something's:
1- you need to work for it.
2-you need to learn more.
3- Find people to partner with or learn from.
4- Plan for your success risk is better managed as calculated risk.
5- Understand that failure is a part of success and you have to learn from it.
6- Learn the motto - Never give up, never, never, never.....
In closing - learn to adapt, just because you should "never give up" - it doesn't mean that you shouldn't be able to alter, change and correct anything in your plans or goal that is not working for you. Necessity is the mother of invention - the light bulb was not invented in a day.
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