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If You Don’t Have a Dream, You Don’t Got Nothing

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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!

Dream Big. Think Outside the Box

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By: Eli Karam
In life you have two choices; either be mundane and simple, or be creative and enthusiastic. Majoring in Finance, I always get the dreaded question “uh so you want to sit down all day in a cubicle and look at papers and crunch numbers?”. No my friends, for me theres much more to Finance than that. Even with other majors whether it be Accounting, Marketing, Biology, etc; YOU are the one who decides what you want to do.

Don’t let any corporate entity change your mind or make you lose focus on whats really important.

Word of Advice– Take 5-10 minutes a night and write out your most craziest ideas or tasks you want to accomplish. Either write it on a post-it-note and paste it in your room or grab a notebook. Do it for a week and just see what you come up with. I always had these wild ideas or business ventures but because I couldn’t see them on paper they were just a minute thought in my head. Once you see it written down physically, it becomes more approachable to execute.

I encourage you to set the bar high, no matter what you’re aiming for in this life. Invest your time and energy on getting what you want and doing what you believe in. Don’t waste your time and effort on things you don’t really want, but think you should have. Oprah once said “That is the lesson: You needed to dream a bigger dream for yourself”. Never succumb! Hold the biggest vision possible for your life and in good time it will come true.

Be creative! Be different! Be great! And most of all, be an EntreWolf!