What do you want to be when you grow up?

What do you want to be when you grow up?

Depending on your age, this may seem like a silly question, but if you feel you have already "grown up" (I haven't), just drop those last four words.

What do you want to be?

If you ask an 8 year old what she wants to be when she grows up, she will tell you a handful of occupations and adventures and roles she hopes for.

She could say she wants to be a rock star, an orthodontist, and/or a vet.

She could say she wants to be a police officer, a bird-watcher, and/or a scientist.

You yourself at one point probably had a dozen different things you wanted to be.

So why did you change the way you answer the question?

I think what it comes down to is you stop believing.
You "grow up."
You adjust your dreams to be more "realistic."

You don't believe anymore that you can be an astronaut, a jockey, or a best-selling author.
So you settle for one of your dreams, or make your dreams smaller.
Or worse, you give up on them entirely.

To that I have one thing to say:

Cut it out.

Why can't you publish a novel?

Why can't you climb Everest?

Why can't you find a cure for cancer?

Why are you putting limits on what you can be?

Is it because those things are really difficult?

Is it because you don't think you can do it?

Well, listen up:

Why are you limiting what you can do?

Go after your passion.

Pursue your dream.

I'm going to ask you again:

What do you want to be?

Now go be it :)