Who are you after five years?
When you ask yourself this question in your life, try asking yourself if you know exactly what you want. Do you know exactly what you want?
How can you blame God for not giving you what you want if you don't even know what you want?
There is a touching story about dream that I heard of.
The protagonist of the story was a staff of the Houston Shuttle Lab, who also majored in computer science at the University of Houston next to the lab. Although the school and work occupy almost all the time of his day, he will devote all his energies to his music creation as long as he has a spare minute.
Writing lyrics is not his specialty, so during these days, he was looking for a partner who wrote lyrics and works with him.
Later he met a girl called Vannere. It was the girl who gave him the greatest encouragement when he started his career.
Vannere, a 19-year-old, won a lot of medals when she was in the Texas poetry contest. He always loves her writing. At that time, they did wrote a lot of good music, and until today, he still thinks these works are full of features and creativity.
During a Saturday morning, Vannere warmly invited him to her home ranch barbeque party. Her family is a famous oil company in Texas and they have a huge ranch. Although her family is extremely rich, but her humble attitude towards others, makes him admires her from his bottom of his heart.
Vannere knew his obsession with music. However, when facing the distant music industry and unfamiliar with American’s record market, they do not have a single help. At that time, two people from Texas, don’t know where to go next. Suddenly, she came up with a question: "What do you think you're doing in 5 years?"
She turned toward him and said, "Hey, tell me, what do you think you're going to be doing 5 years from then, what's your life like?" "Before he could answer," she said, "Don't worry, just think it over, and tell me after you are sure."
He meditated for a few minutes, and began to tell her: "5 years later, I hope to have a record in the market, and this record is popular, everyone likes it." Second, I am living in a place with lots and lots of music, and I work with some of the world's best musicians every day. ”
Vannere said: "Are you sure?"
He answered slowly: "Yes."
Vannere went on to say, "Well, since you're sure, we'll capitalize the target backward." If you have a record in the market in the 5th year, you must sign a contract with a record company in the 4th year. ”
"Then you must have a complete music that can be given to a lot of record companies in your 3rd year, right?"
"Then your 2nd year, you must have a great music to start recording."
"Then in your 1st year, you need to have all your work for the recording and rehearse it in place."
"Then your 6th month need to modify the unfinished work and sift through them."
"Then your 1st month need to finish the current piece of music."
"Then your first week need to list the entire list, which tunes need to be modified and what needs to be completed."
"Well, now we know what you're going to do next week." Vannere smiled and said.
"Oh." And you say you're going to live in a place where there's a lot of music in 5 years, and then work with the best musicians, right? She hastened to add, "If your 5th year is already working with these people, then you should have your own studio at your 4th year." Then your 3rd year, you can work with the people in this circle first. So you shouldn’t live in Texas but live in New York or Los Angeles in your 2nd year.”
The following year, he quit the work at NASA, left Houston and moved to Los Angeles.
It is strange to say that it is exactly the 5th year, but it is probably the 6th year. In 1983, his records began to sell well in Asia, and he was almost busy 24 hours a day, working with some of the top musicians.
Well, the story ended. Now, what are you thinking now? Who were you five years ago? What are you doing? Five years later, are you still in the same circles, muddle through? So what about you in five years? What kind of life do you want to have in five years?
Dear friends, it is time to calm down to think about, five years later, who are you? Ten years later, who are you? If you never really thought about it, then you will always be with the crowd, always controlled by life.
Posted from my blog with SteemPress : http://walkinharmony.vornix.blog/2018/10/12/who-are-you-after-five-years/
Another questions that I always ask my self is "A year from now you're going to be a year older, what are you going to do"? I get this sentence from Ramit Sethi where his parents always ask him this question.