Live Life for a Living!

This is to be a, or let us preferably say the next step to jumping onto your dream bandwagon, a processual evolution to make yourself living in congruence with your soul, with your self, with your inner wealth – a stable entity. Do not read this as a finish product, adapt to the New York School mindset and see it as a process.

Let’s turn this process into progress. Go back to the first blog and read it again, find the two spelling mistakes, the Jachin and Boz of success, the two pillars of making dreams become reality: heart and preseverance. – Good job, thou shalt be rewarded for your savvy. Now we can move forward to the actual discourse:

Living life for a living!

What is your goal in life, what is your aim? What do you want to achieve? Did you ever ask yourself that questions? Well, you are a true person if you can honestly answer yourself that question, because it represents a blurry and distorted proposition. Be a true person, be honest to yourself, what is the point of lying to yourself, hoping you can cover something up? You will get caught, that much I can promise you. So be true and pick your goals wisely, with a pure heart, with great devotion, and it will grant you great opportunities. How can you make your dreams come true without knowing what your dreams really are, without knowing what you want to achieve? Be true, and pick up what is true.

Do not get distracted, do not get deflected, do not get dejected, be effective. There are many vague characters out there chasing wrong dreams, chasing their washy excuses of what they consider their dreams - people chasing something that they a) do not know anything about; b) do not really want; c) are probably not going to be happy with. These people are the ones that want to make a living, that spend their entire lives working hard on making a living, the ones that hustle every day for they want to make a living. They want to make a living so bad that they forget their own living. But what does it do to the ones that want to make a living, if they have no time left for living?

This life is definitely not about wealth, social status and position, respect and reputation. Of course, wealth, an eminent social status, a notable position, respect and a good reputation are definitely desirable conditions, but they are nothing without a heart – and that heart is longing for personal happiness, for inner satisfaction, for devotion. Who is richer, someone with a million Euros (and yes, I picked the Euro, because it implies a dominant monetary status as we have it in Europe, greenback=twentieth century; purpleback=the future) or someone with no economic wealth of any kind whatsoever, but being happy? If you have no true heart and no inner satisfaction, no happiness, then I can guarantee you, that no 9-digit-money-amounts will catapult you out of your desolation or dissatisfaction. Stop chasing the wrong dreams, get your heart straight…and live. There is nothing sadder than seeing people who work on making a living only, who work on it so much that they forget to live. There will be the day we leave this planet, can you then look back and say: wow, I had a great life, I had to struggle once in a while, but I lived every moment to the fullest…or will you be saying: oh my gosh, I spent all life working on making a living, I just forgot to live? Approval, admiration, respect? Do you really need that, when you sit there by yourself, look at the stars, and think about how you seized the day, how you lived this day, how you enjoyed every second, every breath, every heartbeat? Keep in mind three things:

1) memento mori

2) tempus fugit

3) carpe diem

…and live!!! And what shall you do when your stuck up “friends“ come and ask “so what do you do?“ Smile, and tell them:

 “I LIVE LIFE FOR A LIVING, you dumb rascal!“

Get Momentum!

Every individual has dreams, many of them based on our limit perception of the world, in the Holy Bible and colloquially refered to the phrase: 'seeing life through the eyes of a child.' We all used to have them, we sticked to them regardless of what other human beings thought about it, we defended them, we went hard and hustled for them, we gave up less important thing for making a dream come true. But where are the dreams today? Where did they go? Did they vanish? Were they terminated? Harlem Renaissance poet Langston Hughes would probably ask us and the world: "What happens to a dream deferred?"

The truth is, we burried our childish dreams within our deepest subconsciousness, we laid them to bed, laid ’em to rest, replaced them, re-phrased ’em, but will we re-raise them, or will we erase ’em?

This is merely destined to be a motivational wake up call for every individual on this planet, especially for those who burried their dreams, who laid them to bed, laid ’em to rest, re-placed-phrased them, and yet are not sure wether to re-raise them or erase them. Your dreams are not dead, they are merely put on hold. Re-discover them, bring them back to life, and search deep within yourself, question yourself, challenge yourself...in order to re-feel the passion you once had for your dreams, re-gain the love for them. It is not too late to make a dream become reality, in fact, the ones to make theirs come true are the ones to follow and chase their dreams, regardless of all the hardship, all the struggle they had to overcome in order to achieve their goals, in order to make their dreams come true – those are the ones that are living it. The last men standing, the ones containing perserverance, the ones commiting to tenacity, the ones hailing endurance. Do you have the capacity to be one if the few and the proud?

The best day to start making your dreams become reality...is YESTERDAY. Re-grab, re-pick-up the momentum you once had, the passion, and the love for your dreams, "hold fast to dreams", as said by Mr. Hughes, for it seems that this African American gentleman understood the subject matter, or, how we’d nowadays say, he got it. You...need to get it, or as Nike preaches it to us: Just do it! Got anything to lose? Really? That important?

Have a successful year 2012!