Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. – Richard Bach

I have been asked to speak to several different ISU classes over the last couple of years.

The students and professors are asking for an honest opinion about what they can do to graduate with the best chance of starting their life off on the best foot when they graduate.

The most important point I make when talking to the students is to know yourself and follow your own path.

In order to get what you want in life, you must know yourself first. Jim Rohn says that setting your own personal philosophy is the number one challenge in life. Setting your own personal direction and reason for succeeding is the first step and the driving force that allows us to succeed.

If you haven’t ever done so, I encourage everyone to set your own personal philosophy. Spend time learning and growing so that you can set your own philosophy from a position of knowledge and not one of ignorance.

And then you have to stick to it. You have to have the personal integrity to stay true to yourself and your own personal philosophy.

Make it a great day.

Jake