What do you want to be when you grow up?
It is a question all children hear; from parents, teachers, and friends. When I was in grade school, I remember being asked this question many times. I wanted to be an astronaut — I wanted the freedom to travel to the moon and the stars.
As I aged to my teens, that answer became “a fireman“. I can remember being quite the pyromaniac, much to my mother’s discontent. In high school the answer morphed into “I want to be a filmmaker”. In college, it was “I want to be an author”. I know I’ve answered this question a dozen different ways, dependent on my age at the time. But one thing remained true; my answer always represented a dream – a vision of hope and promise for the life I would lead.
How about you? What did you want to be when you were young? How many different answers did you give? Or, have they all been the same?
And the real question of concern, are you doing this today?
More than likely, you’re not.
My friend Rick. I asked him this question. Well guess what? He didn’t answer this question with “I want to be a sales representative at Verizon Wireless”. Nope. He answered with “I wanted to be a race car driver”. So why is Rick selling cell phones today? Is there any chance in hell he will actually become his dream, a race car driver? There isn’t. The dream is dead. Nonetheless, as Rick stands by at his job waiting for a promotion, he wonders “There’s got to be more than this”.
Then there is Sarah. She didn’t answer this question with “I want to be a shift manager at Taco Bell”. Nope, she wanted to be an artist. But today, Sarah finds herself working the graveyard shift, mopping up the floors in the dining room from slobs who have mistaken sour creme for finger paint. As she slams the mop-head in the wringer, Sarah has a moment of disquiet, “Is this what my life has become?”
I’ve asked this question to many people, and surprisingly, no one answers with what they are doing today. How about you? Are your dreams and grandiose visions of an abundant life already a forgone reality? Have your hopes and dreams deteriorated into an idle fantasy? Once your dreams reach the point of fantasia, it is too late. It is sad, and it is one of the reasons why I felt compelled to write this book.
I’m here to tell you, you do not have to give up on your dreams. They are out there, like a ship converging with an oceanic horizon, off in the distance, ready to be commandeered by you. Unfortunately, your ship will not come to port, you have to go out and get it. So, how do you get there? Don’t swim, take a speedboat.
There are two ways. The Slowlane and The Fastlane.
Most opt for the Slowlane road; it is the most obvious and unfortunately, is slow, tedious, and littered with detours. “Get a good job, work 40 years, and one day, you will be finished rich”. What a load of dung. This road is so crowded, the majority of it’s travelers never get to their destination. They stall on the road, broken down, deflated, depressed and stressed, and sometimes dead, with their dreams, dying with them.
The Fastlane is quick, exciting, not as well-traveled, carries its own brand of risks, but yet, is riddled in misconceptions. This is the road I opted for. It is a strategy that has given my life, freedom and reality to the question “What do you want to be when you grow up?”
With a Fastlane strategy…
- Grounded dreams are given flight…
- Choked dreams are given breath …
- Paralyzed dreams are given movement…
- Wilted dreams are given sunshine …
Dead dreams are given life … they have a chance to not only survive, but to become real.
- Astronaut
- Filmmaker
- Author
These are just 3 things I wanted to be “when I grow up”. Each one, is now possible because of the Fastlane strategy. My job is now to write – I am writing “The Fastlane to Millions”. After this, I will turn my sights toward screenwriting. As for the astronaut, even that is possible with the advent of commercial space travel.
The point is, if you’re living your life without a Fastlane strategy, or without a strategy that can’t transport you to your dreams, you’re not living. Your strategy must have the transformative power to take you to your dreams! The Fastlane does this.
There is nothing wrong with working at Verizon, Taco Bell, or at Target. Heck, I would have considered these jobs promotions in comparison to the crap jobs I’ve held. But please, do not make these jobs your means to the end, because the “end”, most likely will never come.
The Fastlane doesn’t care if you have a job or not, it only cares if you have the tools to successfully travel the road: The vehicle, the map, and the fuel to drive it. In my book, I uncover the tools of this trip so you can make fantasies into realities.
Properly driven, a Fastlane leads to your wildest dreams … and by itself, the view on the journey is quite spectacular.
So that said, “What do you want to be when you grow up?”
Peace,
MJ
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