From the time we are born, we have always had a curiosity with the future and what it has in store for us. When we are young our imagination runs wild with thoughts of the future. As kids we often have dreams of being astronauts, doctors, lawyers, CEO’s and many more amazing things. This way of thinking about the future is prevalent until a child reaches middle school. As we get older society tells us that we should abandon are fanciful dreams and adopt more realistic ones. Instead of flying in a spaceship exploring space, I should instead look forward to sitting in a cubicle for eight hours each day.

Over spring break last year I was reading a book titled “Living with a SEAL”, if you haven’t read it I strongly suggest you do. To give you a short premise of it, an ordinary man lives and trains with a Navy SEAL for one year and documents his adventures in the book. I found the book to be hilarious and full of really inspirational quotes. One quote that really stuck out to me was “If you can see yourself doing something you can do it. If you can’t see yourself doing something, usually you can’t achieve it”.

The quote above really resonates with me and I find it really applicable to everyday life. I feel like that if you can picture yourself doing something then more than likely you can do it. I look at myself for example my whole life I had dreams of playing college basketball. Unfortunately that dream didn’t come true but I wasn’t because it was an impossible task for me to complete, on the contrary my dream never came to fruition because I didn’t take the necessary steps to complete it. As I reflect on my life I look at some of dreams that I had that I could totally see myself doing. What’s more is that you don’t even imagine things you can't see yourself doing. For example I never pictured myself playing hockey or professional baseball. I never had an interest in those sports so I never imagined myself doing it.

The mind is a very powerful object and I believe that dreams and goal we set for ourselves aren’t just fairytales. I truthfully believe that with enough determination every dream and goal you think of you can achieve. If you can see yourself owning your own company you can, if you can see yourself with a six pack you can do it, if you can see yourself writing that book you can. The only thing that’s stopping you is the amount of work you’re putting towards that goal.