By; Eli Karam

What is it that you want? Money? Fame? Success? Everyone has a dream they want to accomplish and don’t ever feel like you can’t achieve it. An artist once said “if you don’t got a dream, you don’t got nothing”. The verity of this quote made me look at my career in a different perspective. I started asking myself, what is it I want exactly in life? You may know what you want to do as a career but what are YOU trying to accomplish? You know you want to focus on Finance, great! But what is YOUR dream? To be a financial analyst? Work in Private-Equity or Mergers & Acquisitions? Achieve your CFA? Be rich? Or even if you’re flipping burgers…do you want to open up your own place? Work on getting your culinary degree and become a renowned chef?

Do not be that person that just says, “well I’ll figure it out down the road”. NO! If you’re 18 years or older that is not an acceptable answer. Leave that to the kids in middle school or high school who are still figuring out what they want to do in life. Don’t wait for an opportunity to arise. That’s not EntreWolf mentality!

Buddha once said, “Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment”. While I do follow a lot of Buddhism practices and believe in meditation and concentrating your thoughts, I only minimally agree with this statement. Without an image of who you want to be, how can you draw your path in life? Going forward, every person, student or not should sit down and ask themselves, “where do I want to see myself 5 years from now?” And “how can I implement it to succeed?”. Good Luck!