Teenagers - What Are You Going To Do With Your Life?


By Max Wiseman

Teenagers have a very different view on life to adults. Adults seem to want to stop you having fun. They are very quick to tell you that you can't do this or you can't do that and that you can't be what you dream to be when you grow up and leave school.

Adults are partly right. They know that there is a cost to living. They know that you have to find money to pay for food [url=http://www.teambuccaneersjerseys.com/sean-bunting-jersey/]Black Sean Bunting Jersey[/url] , clothing and accommodation. And they 'think' they know that the chances of you becoming famous, for example, are slim.

What do you want to do when you are older? Many teenagers tell me that they want to be an actress, a doctor [url=http://www.teambuccaneersjerseys.com/devin-white-jersey/]Black Devin White Jersey[/url] , a lawyer, a motocross champion, a professional football player, a pop star [url=http://www.teambuccaneersjerseys.com/ali-marpet-jersey/]Ali Marpet Jersey[/url] , a computer programmer, a pilot, a soldier, a racing driver or an astronomer. Someone even told me they wanted to become a magician.

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So what happened to all of those 'everyday' people, did they have the same dreams as you?

Yes, most people dream of great things when they are a teenager but very few go on to achieve them. What can you learn from them that will stop the same thing happening to you?

The first thing that you need to appreciate is that success does NOT just happen to you. There is a lot of hard work and effort that goes in to every success story. You will not just stumble across success, or become a pop star [url=http://www.teambuccaneersjerseys.com/vernon-hargreaves-iii-jersey/]Vernon Hargreaves III Jersey[/url] , simply because you want to be one.

Speak to any successful person and they will all tell you the same thing – you need to have goals. You need to know exactly what you want, not just some vague notion about the 'lifestyle' that accompanies this dream. You need a main goal and also lots of smaller goals – things that you have to achieve on the way to achieving the big one.

You need to discover what skills or knowledge that you need to be able to do the thing that you want to do. You need to find out if there is a qualification that you need to have to gain you entry into that profession.

If you want to be a singer it takes more than the ability to sing. You are competing against thousands of other singers, many of which have been singing from an early age and take lessons with professional voice coaches several times per week. They practice seven nights per week and already perform in front of small audiences and enter talent contests as often as they can. Are you doing this?

If you want to be a motocross champion it takes more than the ability to ride a bike. You are competing against thousands of other amateurs like yourself who have been riding motocross bikes from the age of four and have been competing almost every weekend for years. They really know how to ride a bike. They have put in the time to develop and hone their skills and their parents are fully behind them buying them the best equipment and travelling to new meetings to put them up against faster riders. These people are very fast. Have you put the same time in at the same level?

I am not trying to put you off. I want you to wake up to the fact that if you are not already practicing and competing at the peak level of your dream activity then you need to start damn quick or accept that someone else is going to live your dream and not you.

What you need to do to become the person in your dream is to work out the difference between your life now and what it is you need to be the person in your dreams.

You need to work out what skills you need and how you are going to achieve them. You need to work out what knowl rl]