When You Have Forgotten What it Was Like to Hope
I love graduations. Perhaps because I have spent most of my life in an academic environment. I love it for many different reasons and on top of the list is the word “HOPE”.
GRADUATION = HOPE
That’s how I see it. But I’m guessing not everybody does.
But for most people or fresh graduates, graduation is a milestone, it’s like telling to the world “I’m ready to face you”. It’s liberation day. It’s a new chapter in life. It’s filled with joy. It’s getting ready to create your future. It’s about being hopeful for what lies ahead.
Unfortunately that feeling is short-lived!
The first few months is exciting, you may have even taken a one or two month break. Then you head on out to the world and start looking for a job and then you begin to wake up to one stark reality that they never told you in school.
It’s not easy to find a job… a job that fits your course… a job where you can apply your skills… a job that pays well… or just simply a job!
And with all the other fresh graduates like you competing for the same positions you begin to wonder how you could ever land your dream job. And this is when you begin to settle for any job as long as it pays.
You come in on your first day excited, hopeful, telling yourself “I will do great here”. You receive you first paycheck, you look at it, and your jaw drops as you see that line there that say withholding tax! And you realize how much the government takes so much away from the hardwork that you put and they will do that for the rest of your working life.
You look again at your take-home pay and you look at your dream and begin to wonder, how could you ever reach your dream?
And now begins, one of the biggest mistakes many people do in their working life. They change their dream!
It might not happen immediately, some take years, but for many people it does happen. They hop from one job to another only to realize that the situation they are in is no different, and they begin to settle, and they change their dream!
And you know what changing your dream means? It’s giving up your HOPE!
And many people in the working environment have lost this precious thing they held on to during their graduation.
Are you in this situation now? Let me help you get out of it!
But first you have to dig deep down in your heart about what it is that you hope for right now. What is your dream?
Let this commencement speech given by Steve Jobs in 2005 at Stanford University help you rekindle that fire if hope you once lost.
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