Whats Your Drive?

      A lot of people will tell you when going into a career that you need something to keep you going, or someone to help you along the way. What they should be asking you is, What is your drive? What is your motivation for being here? These two questions are what have and STILL are helping me in my career. A drive or motivation doesn't have to be a physical object, person, it could be a quote someone said in a movie, or your favorite song writer wrote, BUT it needs to be something that every time you see it, you are filled with passion and it makes you want to work the extra mile in your career. For me this "Drive" is Michelle Phan. From the time I started getting into makeup at 12 she was the person I was watching on YouTube. She started with home videos, blog post, and even her own website, trying to get her message out to the world about her passion. This inspired me, I wanted to be like her, to have her passion, to have her story. Now she is the CEO of her own company by the name of IPSY. Now she did not just wake up one day and decided to create her own makeup line and become instantly famous. If that was possible I doubt anyone would have any passion in this world. She didn't have it easy growing up either, most of the people in this world who have gotten huge in their career haven't ever had the easiest life growing up. I thought about that a lot because I have grown up in an amazing family, yea everyone has their ups and downs but I never had anything horrible happen to me, or really hard. So I wasn't sure how people could know my story if I didn't really have a story to share? Well when you ask that question, it gets answered pretty quickly. Recently I went to hair school like any other normal day, I was headed out of town afterwards so I was excited to leave early and start my long weekend relaxing. Right before I left my director of my school pulled me aside into an office and told me my school would be shutting down in a month. My heart was completely broken, I was completely shocked and couldn't even imagine what I was suppose to do with my life now. They said there were other schools to go to but I didn't want to leave my particular school and its culture. I started hair school in high school and had worked so hard to get where I was at and I only had a 1000 hours left. Why did this happen to me? Why does my school have to shut down? All my passion was gone in that moment, everything I had worked for, gone. I was angry, sad, upset, confused, no idea what to do or expect. Eventually after all these emotions came out and hours of crying had passed I remembered my Drive and passion. Michelle went through many hard things, much harder then me but to her they weren't hard things, they were experiences to more success. I had to realize that I couldn't let my passion die because of one hard hit, this was just another door opening so many more options of learning up to me. This would help me have more passion to finish and go even farther into my career then I even expected. So when people tell you to find something or someone that makes you passionate, and want to work hard, they aren't kidding around, find that. It will help you to go so far, even in the hardest of times in life. I know that through these experiences they are ways to success and are just more experience to be a better person.