| For the better part of my first 32 years on this planet, I | | | | telling me that my vocation would be built on a unique |
| struggled to find something that I could do that would | | | | mix of all three. |
| make me successful. All I knew for most of that time | | | | I finally understood how all of my talents, gifts, and |
| was that I wanted to be rich, I wanted to be known, | | | | interests fit into my life. They would eventually work |
| and I wanted people to like me. Respect would have | | | | together to allow me to touch the lives of people |
| been a good thing too, but at that point, I was willing to | | | | through the spoken word and musical expression, |
| sacrifice it, if necessary, to get the other three. | | | | propelled by an entrepreneurial zeal. |
| I tried many different jobs, hobbies, businesses, and | | | | It wasn't until I finally started to explore my own |
| projects trying to find "my thing." It seems like I had a | | | | individuality, that I was able to see the unlimited potential |
| different business card every month. It became a | | | | for my life. Now, not only could I change my world, I |
| game to see if I could actually deplete my 250 count | | | | could change the world if I dared to dream big enough. |
| of cards before I was on to something else. I didn't | | | | So what about you? Who are you? Do you even |
| have a clue. I had no idea what I wanted to do when I | | | | know? What could you do with your life if you just |
| "grew up." | | | | dared to be unique and embraced your individuality? |
| One Friday morning, while I was on vacation and | | | | I leave you with the following questions, dare you to |
| having breakfast with my wife, at a restaurant called | | | | find the answers, and challenge you to live out the |
| Spoodle's in Disney's Boardwalk Resort, I had an | | | | greatness within you. Be Great at Something! TM |
| epiphany. Bam! There it was, out of nowhere. My life | | | | Life Changing, Individuality Discovering Questions |
| finally made since! I don't know what it is about that | | | | 1. What do you do well naturally? |
| place (Disneyworld) but it always seems to get my | | | | 2. What do other people spend money, taking lessons |
| dream wheel spinning. Faster than you could say | | | | to learn, that you already do effortlessly? |
| "Jimmie Cricket," all of the pieces of the puzzle came | | | | 3. What do you consider fun that other people |
| together. | | | | consider work? |
| It became crystal clear to me that I was never going | | | | 4. What kinds of movies, books, activities, social groups, |
| to find my dream job. I was going to have to create it. | | | | organizations, and hobbies do you generally gravitate |
| And all of the ingredients that I would ever need to put | | | | towards? |
| this wonderful career together were already in place. | | | | 5. What could you spend hours doing and loose all |
| Now it was just a matter of bringing them together in | | | | track of time? |
| time, and with careful planning. You see, at this point in | | | | 6. What have been some of your life defining |
| my life, I had already had three defining moments in my | | | | moments? |
| life: when I started playing the saxophone, when I saw | | | | 7. What are your natural gifts, talents, and abilities? |
| a motivational speaker for the first time, and when I | | | | 8. What would you do, if you knew that you could not |
| caught the entrepreneurial spirit back in college. Now I | | | | fail? |
| was having the fourth defining moment, and it was | | | | |