Chasing Someone Else’s Dreams

The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want. – Ben Stein

While this sounds like a simple thing, sometimes it can be much harder than we think. In order to figure out what we want, we have to get past everything the world is trying to tell us we need. Every day we’re bombarded with advertisements telling us we need this product or that product in order to be happy (or cool, or popular, or complete, or whatever). We hear “experts” tel...