Have you ever wanted something so bad that you would do anything to get it. That’s how I felt! I wanted to change my life and my career path. I wanted to leave the job I was in and do something I felt capable of doing and valued for my work.
With this strong desire to finally commit to something and change my life, I decided that I wanted to become a web developer. So I dedicated myself to learning the new technology and the languages that make up the program and I learned web development.
With the determination and fire to go after this change with everything I got and without fear of failure. I pushed pass it and persisted. I studied and built up my confidence up and when I was sure of myself and knew I could solve a problem they may throw at me, and in my skills, I applied.
After many applications later, I probably filled out 20-40 applications, and a few interviews and rejection emails one job came through. It was through a recruiter who saw my resume and my portfolio and connected me with a job.
I went to the interview and just from my experience I felt we had a good rapport and they asked me to come in the following week. In those moments I have to honestly say I was excited because I was one step closer to realizing a goal or rather a dream that seemed so far fetched just years prior.
The following week we set a time and I came in and everything just seemed natural. It was as if I just fell into the flow of everything. They had their morning meeting and soon afterwards I was placed on a project.
If you were to get a glimpse into my life what I have been doing in these past few months, I have been studying with a serious intent everyday and working on projects, either personal or client based, to enhance my skills and portfolio just to be ready for the job, better yet my new life.
When they gave me the assignment, and asked me to design for a client, the me inside, and outside, could not stop smiling as I began the project. If there was ever a surreal moment in my life this was it. Will Smith once said “you just decide, what its gonna be, who you gonna be, and how your gonna do it” and I did just that and there before me was a computer I was designing a layout for a website for a company, as my job. This was different because it wasn’t a freelance project but I was actually working in a company and for a company and a website for one of their clients.
Talk about dream defined and met.
You want to know the other thing that made me smile even more as I was sitting at that chair designing a website for this company…I was getting paid for this.
I had to ask myself, you mean I am actually getting paid for something that I have been doing for the past few months for free? Not only that but I am actually doing WHAT I WANTED to do. Unbelievable and almost unreal.
But it wasn’t because I was and am living it.
In a matter of months with a simple decision to change my life, my circumstances, and my financial career, I have dramatically shifted my life. Accomplishing this goal of mine was not only a point in my life of achieving a goal or a dream, but actually proving to myself that I have the ability to become what I want and achieve what I want. It was a shift in my mind.
It was actually a lesson that taught me that decisions, commitment, and persistent, along with hard work of course, can help me achieve my goals. It doesn’t matter what it is. It truly broke the limiting beliefs in my mind that I am capable of many things.
In fact, since reaching the goal, which I just reached, I am already thinking of what is the next goal I can achieve in the next six months. I promise you guys if your reading and following along this blog your in for a wild ride.
I’m thinking bigger now, 10x bigger as Grant Cardone would say, and I’m going after the many things I was afraid to go after, or to lazy as a kid. No more! My life is my own and I can create the life I want to and create the finance to free me as well.
So everyday when I walk into the office I am excited that I get to do something I truly find an interest in and passion for. Even though this role I am designing more and I want to do more front end web development, that is not stopping me from my continued growth in javascript and creating websites and soon web apps. I also know that my skills will be used in the near future so definitely not worried
My goal of being one of the leading web developers in the industry has not changed, but I believe this opportunity was a great milestone in my life to truly help me to redefine myself and how to go after my goals and attain them.
It’s really just diving in and just doing it, you may not have everything together, but everyone has to start somewhere and if your afraid to start then how will you ever see the end.
So if I have any advice for anyone who wants to achieve great dreams or their personal goals I say just do it and go for it. Decide, commit, and persist until you make it happen. But you have to start because if you don’t start then you will never know how the story will end.
If your really not sure do what I did, and am doing. I said I would dedicate myself to web development for one year and everything else that I know how to do I put down to focus on one thing, web development.
I think if your afraid to make that kind of decision your not gonna commit and follow all the way through. its only one year
So don’t be afraid go out, jump in the water, dive and go after your goals and dreams and ambitions because its your life and know no one gets to live it except you and the only one to answer for it at the end of the day is YOU.