I would like to achieve a certain level of financial success by the time I'm 25. Right now I'm 23. More clearly defined, I want to be earning somewhere between $150,000 and $200,000 per year. These numbers are important to me specifically to support my other visions. I will need to be earning at least that much in yearly salary to accomplish what I want to over the next ten years. I plan to do this by creating new opportunities for myself at work. Specifically, using my roll in product development to work my way into receiving sales and delivery commissions, and larger bonuses. I will earn my income based on performance instead of depending on yearly base salary increases. I am already working my way into this and would rather not disclose further information on "how" I'm doing it.
Vision #2
I will earn my MBA in Marketing from a top university. To get here, I first have to complete my bachelor's degree. I also have to work for a few more years to gain more in depth experience and proven success in my current position of product development and strategic planning at a small company. I will also have to get high scores on my GMAT, which I plan to take immediately after I graduate from Baruch. I will also have to figure out how I will finance it without going into too much debt. The ideal situation would be to pay for it with a combination of my own savings and contributions from my employer.
Vision #3
I want to travel to many places around the world. All I need is time and money to do this. Some of the traveling will happen before my Master's degree, some after. If I accomplish Vision #1 this shouldn't be too much of an issue. The key here is however, that I don't want this travel to have anything to do with business. So I will have to work out some serious vacation time... which will probably be the biggest challenge.
Vision #4
I want to open high end restaurants in resort locations, in at least three different countries. I want them to be extremely successful. This would require using my previous experiences to create a comprehensive business plan and secure financing for at least the first location. Probably the other two as well, to reduce my liability. It will be my point of self-actualization when I see this success.
Your visions seem very specific and thorough. Unlike my own visions, i think this will make them more easily attainable, as you will know exactly what you are working for, which you clearly do.
ReplyDeleteI think that maybe to make sure you achieve all of these goals, you need to perhaps find a way of combining 2 of them. This is specifically pertaining to vision # 3 and 4. Although you say you don't want to travel "for work", which i completely understand, perhaps when you are ready to open up your high end restaurants, you can spend a year or so traveling to a few key locations. Though you may want to simply "see the whole world" by being a tourist in many countries, i feel that it is often more rewarding to take a month, or a few months even, to live in a country (if you have a whole year for this...you could live in a few). By doing this, you will not simply be "seeing" the countries, but actually living and understanding their cultures. You could gain much more insight into their cultures, and thereby their cuisines (if your restaurants should be foreign cuisines?). By living there you could take classes to study their language, study their culture and cuisines (both in classes and from experiences), and really interact with the locals.
No matter what you chose to do, goodluck!