“If today is the day you will take your destiny into your hands, you will soon discover that you hold the keys of fate.”- Unknown

If there is anything my friends and family know me as, it’s: I seize opportunities and make shit happen! I’ve been the biggest advocate of finding your own voice, carving your own path that’s authentic to you, making your own destiny, and become the biggest learner of life.

As young people survive the recession, we realized that any job or materialistic satisfaction can diminish at any moment. This brought on a turn of realization for our generation: If we can lose our job at any moment, then why not do what we truly want to do? Live life to how we want to?

So many young people are questioning how they were spending their time (work, family, etc) and explore where their passion really lies. Especially, in the last 2 years, individuals were looking for new jobs in industry they always wanted to do. Moving to new cities, states and countries to revitalize their life. Some going to school to advance in the direction they’ve always dreamed of. Others, quit to travel and live life. Mostly, re-evaluating a meaningful life, change and reducing the materialistic indulgence that really doesn’t matter in the long run. I know I did! It was refreshing.

This blog post was inspired by DailyOm blog post below (exploring passion and breaking down time constraints):

How we utilize that time is consequently one of the most important decisions we make. Yet it is far too easy to put off until tomorrow what we are dreaming of today. The hectic pace of modern existence affords us an easy out; we shelve our aspirations so we can cope more effectively with the challenges of the present, ostensibly to have more time and leisure to realize our purpose in the future. Or we tell ourselves that we will chase our dreams someday once we have accomplished other lesser goals. In truth, it is our fear that keeps us from seeking fulfillment in the here and now—because we view failure as a possibility, our reasons for delaying our inevitable success seem sound and rational. If we ask ourselves what we are really waiting for, however, we discover that there is no truly compelling reason why we should put off the pursuit of the dreams that sustain us.

When regarded as a question, “Why not now?” drains us of our power to realize our ambitions. We are so concerned with the notion that we are somehow undeserving of happiness that we cannot see that there is much we can do in the present to begin courting it. Yet when we look decisively at our existence and state, “Why not now, indeed!” we are empowered to begin changing our lives this very moment. We procrastinate for many reasons, from a perceived lack of time to a legitimate lack of self-belief, but the truth of the matter is that there is no time like the present and no time but the present. Whatever we aim to accomplish, we will achieve it more quickly and with a greater degree of efficiency when we seize the day and make the most of the resources we have at our disposal presently.

All the joy, passion, and contentment you can envision can be yours right now, rather than in some far-flung point in time. You need only remind yourself that there is nothing standing between you and fulfillment. If you decide that today is the day you will take your destiny into your hands, you will soon discover that you hold the keys of fate.

What will you do in your life NOW that you know you can?