Thirst for a vision

This video tops my list as one of the cheesiest video ever!  However, I cannot help it but to agree more on the fact that we all need to live a life as visionaries and not just as visionaries but someone who takes action and follows their vision with passion.  I agree that there is amazing power in a vision.  A vision allows you to see what others can only dream. 

I remember reading about Walt Disney once.

In 1982, Disney World in Orlando, Florida finished work on the Epcot center.
Walt Disney had recently passed away, so the Disney executives asked his wife to cut the ribbon and say a few words. When the MC called her up to the podium, he smiled and said," "Mrs Disney, I just wish Walt could have seen this!"
She smiled and responded by saying, "He did."

He has seen it all along; it was that people were able to see it in physical form when Epcot center was finally completed but Walt Disney saw it in his vision and took action to turn it into reality. 

As much as I am inspired by this story of Walt Disney and many others but one thing that I’ve been struggling with is the lack of true vision for myself.  I feel like I am caught up with this daily life routine of school, work, friends and just life in general.  I barely have time to sit down and think for myself.

Where am I heading? What am I really trying to achieve? What is my true passion? What am I living for? What am I dreaming about today that I can turn that into a vision?  These are some deep questions that I don’t really have answers for right now.

Instead of going to college like most people right after high school, I started working right away.  I spent some time teaching English in South Korea at a small institution then moved back to US and spent a year with my uncle in his construction company, then spent 4 years in the US Air Force as a medic, after that I moved to NY and spent two years in real estate before I decide to come back to school full time to pursue a career in finance.  But to be honest with myself and be honest with you I’m still not sure if this is what I really want.  In reality and what I get from my short experiences is that you can earn money and success in anything if you put time and sincere effort into it.  You can continue to learn and move-up in career or you can go back to school and learn what ever you learn and do whatever you decide to do.  But where do you find a career and not just work?  Where do you find this true vision and passion? Its not that I don’t want to have vision, it’s that I’m still searching for my Disney World!

Since I am required to list and share some of my vision here are some things I have in mind.   This is little vague visions/goals but I want to be successful, very successful… who doesn’t right?  But more than anything else, what I really hope for is to find my true passion.  In short term and to be little more specific, successfully finish school by 2012 with GPA above 3.7 and do well in my current internship at JPMC to get a full time offer by end of this summer.

At times I feel like you just have to commit to what you have front of you and make the best of it.  Because as Viktor Frankl did in his Jewish concentration prison camp by setting three goals which allowed him to be one of the few survivors.  Of course I’m not fighting for my survivor but at this time I do feel like I need to take a day at a time from this crazy schedule and attempt to survive the life style that I currently have.  And as soon as I get a chance, my plan is to get away from this craziness, take vacation by myself, go some where quiet so I can have sometime to think to myself and reflect and hopefully then find my Disney Land!