When following your dreams, it’s very hard to make the right
decisions, because it can be very hard to even know what the right choices are.
If it’s your dream, then you have a love and passion for it. That same love
that drives you to follow your dream can, in some cases, destroy your dream and
sometimes love. If you don’t start out on the right foot to begin with, then
you’ll find yourself in a little bit of trouble.
This is
what happened to Rob Johnson. It’s unfortunate, but happens, and for Rob it
could have been avoided. Rob was a journalist that was always working with
deadlines and yelling editors. He was tired of the grind and wants to follow
his dream of playing tennis for a living. He thought easiest thing to do would
be to quit his job, in early 2000’s people were getting fired like crazy, and
he went around to some of the Orlando, Florida resorts around him and offer to
teach tennis for their customers.
He hopped
in it, offering to teach for fifty dollars and hour and kick back ten percent
back to the hotels for working with him. After getting a couple hotels he
invested $500 for t-shirts. He quickly had a few clients and thought everything
was working out. Rob had a few problems. He was trying to teach to tourist and
kids that don’t even really care about tennis. He was also teaching in a place
that gets hits by hurricanes and where it rains all the time. Quickly he began
to hate what he once love.
Rob could
have avoided this all by thinking things through first. He didn’t have a
business plan, and that would have made him realize the actual job he was trying
to get into. He also could have volunteered to teach at a boys and girls club
to even see if he would like teaching. Or he could have eased into it by
teaching one or two days a week and keeping his job. His problem wasn’t that he
was following his dream; it was the execution of it.
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