This morning I met with 20+ people at Central Iowa Bloggers which is monthly meet where people with different skills come together and talk about different topics. Mostly you will see Entrepreneurs, Bloggers, Mommy’s, Daddy’s and even book writers.
Well after about 15 minutes of saying Hi and give High-Fives I set down with group of people that talked about politics who talked about the attack ads that were running before the Election day (November 2nd) “by the way this was the first time I was able to vote in my 30 years of life”
Later on, the group spread across the Panera (coffee shop) and I was left talking to Josh a.k.a @AdMavericks. Each time I talk to him he inspires me with his potential of seeing people for who they are and even little things we say to him, he makes them sound so big and so adventuress.
And he said:
Hey Joe, you know what you should do? You should write a book or tell your story about American Dream which most people forgot about it.
The quote above might not be exactly what he said but that is how I received it. So here I am few hours later writing this blog post about that story.
See, when I first posted about “Live Your Life While You Can” and explained how I live life after surviving 2nd clinical death, I realized that I moved a lot of people and not to mention Daniel Pink who is best seller with his latest book called Drive and he said via email to me…
Joe, that is terrific!
and others that supported my state of mind like Josh Fleming, Katie Ketelsen, Jade Handy, Chris Garrett….
Living American Dream
As I mentioned in my previous post, I came to United States 10 years ago with $60 and now in 2010 I am making close to six figures with help of my wife who supports me every day. So is this the part where I say “I am living an American Dream”, F*** yeah!
People sometimes forgot where they come from, besides from vagina, like the rest of us. But seriously! How many of you had lived hard life and maybe still do? But yet, you still don’t think you are not living American Dream?
Dude, where is your hope?
Inspiration?
What the hell?
You have house or apartment, you have job, you have kids, you go out every now and then, your health is OK but not maybe where you want it to be…
Sorry people, but to me that is called great living whether it is called American, Cambodian or Czechoslovakian dream.
An American Dream to me represents that you have
- Roof above your head
- Job or steady income
- Spouse or Not..
- And you are happy, some days..
See, the thing is that we don’t appreciate things that we have, because we already got use to those “things” and not only that! News media and TV shows like Housewives …. make us jealous as to why can’t we eat $500 breakfast every day, right?
You are interpreting American Dream wrong!
American Dream is not about being rich its about living a good life which in most cases means, you have roof above your head. Just for a split second think about how your life could be worse if you lost everything you have right now?
You kid dies, your wife or husband leaves you, and your house gets “Foreclosure” sign because bank took it and you couldn’t pay the bills because , again: you lost your job!
Now that my friends is not American Dream.
I can’t say that I live happy life all the time… nobody can, we all got some sort of problems, but it takes courage, skills and mental inspiration to face those problems and fix them the way we want them to be.
Anyway, I started rambling again…so I’ll just finish this post now. What I would like you to take from this post is this:
- You are alive!
- The world is still beautiful!
- Appreciate what you have and not what you don’t!
- You want something better? Work for it! Plan, make goals..execute them!
Well that’s it.
Wish you great day, and look at this world from the positive prospective because tomorrow you might die and your dream whichever you live now, will be over!
My name is Joe Hobot and I approve this Post :)
