December 12, 2022,
What do you want to do when you grow up?
Who do you want to be when you grow up?
Where do you want to live when you grow up?
No matter your age, more than likely you have been asked at least one of those questions.
Sometimes the answers to those questions can be very vague or gray.
If you are young, especially in junior high school or above, you might want to put some thought into it.
As children, our parents typically plan our immediate life for us and if we are fortunate, what they are doing is so great, we can learn from them and follow in their footsteps.
We can’t say enough, that in our research, so many stars today followed the pathway of one or both of their parents. The Social Media star whose mother was a model and singer. The tennis star whose parents were former Olympians. The college and pro football stars whose fathers played the game. The collegiate head football who is now having success that followed in the footsteps of his father.
Shane Beamer, born March 31, 1977, is an American football coach and former player who is currently the head coach at the University of South Carolina. He is the son of former Virginia Tech football coach Frank Beamer.
He attended Blacksburg High School where he lettered in both football and baseball, was first-team Group AA all-state receiver, and played in the 1995 Virginia high school all-star football game.
Mr. Beamer’s Gamecocks recently did something historic.
As reported on November 26, 2022, by the Detroit News (detroitnews.com), “South Carolina followed up its 63-38 stunner over the Vols last week with a 31-30 victory over No. 7 Clemson on Saturday, ending the title chances of another College Football Playoff contender for a second straight week.”
The Gamecocks went from losing by 32 to the Florida Gators, to back-to-back wins over top ten teams for the first time in school history.
Shane Beamer is now considered one of the fastest rising stars in the college football ranks.
We can still remember his father roaming the sidelines with those great Virginia Tech football teams, a program now in decline since his departure.
We all should deeply appreciate our parent’s help but at some point, we may need to create new footsteps.
Our own.
As far as your future, your goals and your plans on how to get there tend to fall in four major categories. Your health, career, spiritual pathway and financial accomplishments.
A major category that is often overlooked but is extremely important is your health.
When you are young, your body is so resilient that you can eat certain ways, not exercise and not sleep as much as you should and, to some degree, get away with it.
Understand, if that is the way you are behaving, you are forming a bad habit that will be hard to break.
Start early developing a plan that focuses on your health.
Research subjects like fiber, vitamins and digestion. How often a week do you go for long walks? Do you just wait for the weekend to run? How often do you go to the gym?
Habits are hard to break. Actively start participating in them when you are very young and you will tend to stay with those good habits your entire life.
It is very hard to enjoy life in poor health.
It is invigorating to enjoy it in good health. The delicious foods taste so much better.
What would you like to do for a living that brings you a sense of satisfaction and self-worth?
Hopefully pays well too.
From our experience, this is really something you should firmly think about otherwise you could do like many. They go to college, accumulate a lot of debt and then take an average to good paying job, sometimes that they hate, just to pay the bills.
Try and avoid that trap.
One way to find out what jobs you may like is to intern at them for short periods of time, just to see if you like it. Sometimes you may need to work for free, so the operative words are “short time”. Having said that, it will give you valuable experience is knowing the difference between what you can tolerate, like and the best, love.
Another area that is often overlooked is your moral compass or spiritual path.
In times past, it was almost a given that most young people would go to church and grow up to get married and have a family. So much has changed in society that less and less that is the case. That pathway did at least give a person some guidance on right and wrong.
If you don’t have a pathway, you should do some research and try and find a positive and ethical pathway to guide you. You can have great health, a wonderful career and money but if you behave with low moral character, at some point there is a substantial cost to that.
Take a moment and think about that. If you don’t currently have a spiritual path, take the high road and look for pathways that speak to being positive, honest and ethical, especially in your association with people.
Often that behavior, through referrals, will help you make more money.
Money is very important.
Virtually everything you desire to have or participate in will cost money. Often lots of it.
There are plenty of books on Amazon about making, saving and investing your money.
This is an extremely important aspect to life in the sense it will determine what kind of neighborhood you live in, if you spend too much of your money on rent without buying a property and stabilizing your expenses along with providing a sense of calm that your needs and possibly that of your family will be taken care of.
Avoid as much debt as possible and in our minds, rent is debt.
You may have noticed that we didn’t stray into the area of planning for marriage. These days, who can plan for that? Our feeling is, make yourself and your resume as attractive as possible when you are young and that will create more choices and options.
So, who do you want to be when you grow up?
Our suggestion?
Don’t just think about it, start planning for it.
Early.
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