WITH JONATHAN ALBERT

UMBC VSA Presents:

Decoding Your Dreams

Road Map

I hope to present some tools that you can all use as a roadmap or post markers or signs in your life to help guide you.

If there’s something you like I encourage you to look deeper into that point.

Road Map

If you don’t like something no worries, what helped me might not help you, but that’s fine.

The beauty of uncovering the roadmap to your dreams/goals is that it is highly individual and subjective.

Some Personal Struggles

Coming back from living in Korea for a year and adapting to America again.

Getting serious about my professional future and sacrificing my dance life.

Becoming distant to previously close friends and accepting it.

The Struggle is Real…

Not going to lie finding, following, and achieving your goals/dreams is very hard.

So don’t feel bad if you have trouble in this process because I assure you EVERYONE experiences these same hardships.

Don’t be daunted by this fact. Seek mentors or close friends to join and help you on your journey.

Kid President Change the World

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-gQLqv9f4o

Kid President

“Two roads diverged in the woods and I took the road less traveled. AND IT HURT MAN!”

“BUT what if there really were TWO PATHS?“I want to be on the path that leads to

AWESOME..” –Robert Frost and Kid President

Michael Jordan

Q: Talent or Hard Work?

MJ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9zSVu76AX3I

Michael Jordan

“FAILURE gave me STRENGTH.”

“Maybe I made you think BASKETBALL was a GOD GIVEN GIFT, and not something I WORKED for EVERY DAY of my life.”

“Maybe you’re just making EXCUSES.”

Greatness is Possible

Muhammad Ali

Eye of the Storm Metaphor

Let’s say the WORLD is a STORM.

Eye of the Storm

We all EXIST on the PERIPHERY or the outer surrounding in our constituencies.

Counter intuitively, the EYE OF THE STORM or the middle is the CALMEST POINT.

Eye of the Storm

In our busy daily lives, I believe that we can share knowledge with each other and reach epiphanies or revelations by meeting together in the eye of the storm.

There you may find peace of mind and clarity.

Eye of the Storm

COLLEGE is the eye of the storm where we all come together.

Take ADVANTAGE of this OPPORTUNITY..

Eye of the Storm Chart

Eye of the StormPeriphery

Individual in Constituency

Reach Epiphany

The College Paradox

A Bronx Tale

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpP39q31N3o

Time is of the Essence

Time is of the Essence

TIME MANAGEMENT: It is possible to get everything done in the day you just have to make time for it all.

3rd LAW OF PHYSICS: for every reaction there is an equal and opposite reaction. Every decision requires a sacrifice and a consequence.

ALWAYS REMEMBER

Coach K

HATE or LOVE Duke you CANNOT IGNORE Coach K’s ACHIEVEMENTS: the MOST WINNING ACTIVE COACH in men's NCAA Tournament play with an 82–25 record for a .767 winning percentage. His Duke teams have won 13 ACC Championships, been to 11 Final Fours, and won four NCAA tournament National Championships.

Humble Pie, Tastyyyy

-We humble players by putting them in unfamiliar positions on the court so they will fail fast.

-They realize they have new limits to surpass. –Coach K

FAILURE

Failure is a necessary part of success.

Edison made the light bulb after failing 10,000 times.

#SADBOYZ

FAILURE

FAMOUS FAILURES

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6hz_s2XIAU

Finding Your Passion

Move HORIZONTAL before moving VERTICAL

Try different things, don’t fear failure! When you find something you really enjoy

doing, focus and improve at it!

Horizontal before Vertical Examples

Started as a rapper, moved to TV,finished as a movie actor.

Started playing football, moved to wrestling, finished as a movie actor.

Genius

LUCK

Long Term Happiness

“Gaining lasting happiness can only come through sustained, consistent effort.” –Russell Simmons

Leadership

Retired 4 Star General Stanley Mcchrystal oversaw JSOC in Iraq, and Commander of ISAF and United States Forces in Afghanistan.

“LEADERSHIP is not complex not difficult to understand, but a choice.” –Stanley Mcchrystal

DREAMS

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pIUOdrWl-ts