College Venues Could Use Some Small Business Consultants, Especially Young Entrepreneurs
It is about 40 minutes past midnight and I am laying in bed with my laptop downloading some Internet Marketing videos I am going to want to view tomorrow and in the following days. I don't feel like sleeping for two reasons. #1 is that I have gotten used to staying up the past few days, but more importantly, my mind is spinning with all the different things going on in today's world. It seems like things are getting faster and faster and keeping up is difficult at best.
One thing which I got the idea for from a friend of mine: Laura Kowalski, is to start doing college speaking. As soon as she brought the subject up I immediately thought: “Gosh I should be giving presentations at colleges across America.” The primary reason this sounds like a good idea is because apparently it pays well, but as I started to think about it more and more I realized that I really have something to share with college students and faculty alike. My walk in life has been fundamentally different than that of other people my age. I have had need and desire to live a life on the fast track. Instead of sitting around and waiting for my college degree, I got married, and also started my business. I am about to reach the end of my college career, and instead of getting out with just a degree, I am going to graduate with several skillsets that many people never get in their entire life. Networking is a big part of that, but also entrepreneurship and leadership skills. I don't know many recent college grads who have these skillsets yet, so it would be prudent to begin sharing what I have learned with my peers.
But I am not sure if it is even just about sharing the skillsets because the information is out there for people to learn about these things. It is more about sharing the drive to seek out and learn these things. If there is one thing that I have which many of my peers do not have, it is a drive to be great. I have heard that the greatest enemy of being great, is being good. Those who are good, never strive to be great. College students are naturally good, therefore they have little reason to strive to be great.
I would ask you to think about the middle class of America. Are they people who are good? Or are they people who are great? Don't get me wrong because I am sure that each and every person has a God-given purpose in life and they have fit into that purpose in some way, shape, or form. However, many have let dreams slip out of their grasp simply because they decided that what they had was “good enough.”
Sounds greedy, doesn't it? But working hard to push yourself to the next level of personal growth and also of financial and lifestyle freedom is easier said than done. I don't find it greedy at all to set your standards for success high and then working to meet them. We do live in the land of opportunity, do we not?
So then, here is my question for you: do you think that instead of waiting for opportunity to come to you in today's society, that you should be out there fighting as hard as you can to make your wildest hopes and dreams come true? I know I certainly do, which is why at the mere age of 22 I am an entrepreneur and also married, and soon to also be a college graduate.
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