This week I learned quite a bit about a guy names Randy Paush. He was a pretty incredible man. He had a lot of childhood dreams, which most of them he was able to achieve. And that is what I would like to discuss today. I think that having childhood dreams, writing them down so we don’t forget, and truly believing that we can achieve them through hard work, persistence, and faith is so critical to having a fulfilling, meaningful life. I think dreaming is so important because it truly gives hope and life to the soul. Without dreams or aspirations, I think the soul and the mind and motivation of man would be dead. One of my childhood dreams is to travel to space. Now, although I am not going to be an astronaut, I plan on living long enough and having the financial power that as soon as the space travel agency finally opens up the public, you better believe that I will be the first one to buy a ticket. With that being said, how am I going to achieve that? Well this week I had the opportunity to think about my career path, dreams and goals that I wanted to achieve throughout my life. Having a dream and goal are important, but having a stepping stone guide on how you are going to do that is just as important. Without works, faith is dead. Here is a little bit about how I am going to achieve that and a little bit about my own pathway to success. My number one star, or in other words starting with the end in mind, is having a large family that is close together, get along, and we share much love with each other. At this point in my life, I want to be fully retired and able to spend my time and money the way I want to bless the lives of my family, friends, and others. I want to have accomplished financial freedom, built a business that will continue to bless the lives of others including my family. I want to have a nice paid off house with my favorite dream car. I want to have, or soon will be, serving a mission with my wife in a foreign country. Hopefully back in Hungary where I served my 2 year mission. Now, let’s start from the beginning. My first stepping stone is choosing a discipline. That is going to be business management with finance. This is a critical stepping stone that will help me get to my star that is along the path to my great #1 star. The Job that I need to get, and luckily already have, is a management position in the auto industry so I can learn the ins and outs of that. Like I said, I currently have that position where I am a sales manager at a dealership. This is helping me learn how to buy cars, advertise, generate leads and business, work with customers, create deals, get those deals to lenders, and to finally cash out those deals for profit. This stepping stone will provide great lessons and knowledge that I will need to get to my first star, which is to create my own dealership called Watons Motor Company. After reaching that first star along my path, now is the time to start growing that company. This star will lead me to my second star, building passive income to achieve complete financial freedom. Although a dealership is a cash flowing business, I also want to invest in real estate that produces income for me each and every month. Using the money that I make from the dealership, I will buy several properties. Achieving 20,000 dollars in passive income through various sources will be my next star. After achieving this star, I will have, or be very close to achieving my #1 star that I spoke about in the beginning.

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