American Dream

1. MY AMERICAN DREAM!
Brought to you by Michael Kwakwa

2. What do I Mean By American Dream?
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3. My BIG Wish
• My wish and wish is pretty • “It was right then that I started
thinking about Thomas
simple I would say. It’s Jefferson on the Declaration of
happiness. I want to achieve Independence and the part
happiness in my life. about our right to life, liberty,
and the pursuit of happiness.
Happiness doesn’t just And I remember thinking how
come to an individual. One did he know to put the pursuit
must pursue it, hunt it part in there? That maybe
happiness is something that
down, make it a prisoner in we can only pursue and maybe
his head. Only then will I we can actually never have it.
No matter what. How did he
have true happiness. know that?” –Pursuit of
Happiness

4. SUCCESS!!
MY PASSAGE WAY TO HAPPIENESS AND MY AMERICAN
DREAM

5. A Lesson Of Success
• Success is hard but pretty simple.
Many look at all the famous people
and wonder how they got successful or
just assume that they were specially
selected in some way to be
successful. Some look at the athletes
and the business owners and the rich
and dismiss it for some destiny or
special placement. Some think they
have some special success potion but

6. The Basics-STEP #1: Hard Work
• Success is hard work.
Period. “You’ve got to
eat it and sleep it, and
think it”. Most of all,
you’ve got to want it. A
wise man once said,
many want success but
they don’t want it bad.
He said that some want
sleep more than they
want success. The key
to success is self
sacrifice, something I
have yet to learn.
“You’ve got to be willing
to sacrifice at any
moment, who you’ve
been, for who you will
become”

7. The Basics- Step #2: Discipline
• Next I will have to
work on the
achievement of
discipline. There is
no hard work with
out discipline, there
is no success without
hard work, and there
is no happiness
without success.
Discipline your mind
and you can do
anything, discipline
your mind and your
body, heart, soul, and
dream will follow.

8. The Basics-Step # 3
• So the last of the basics
is belief. You are
nothing without faith.
You can not do anything
in this life with a
mindset that you can’t
do this. If I believe I can
do something, I will be
able to do it, and that is
why I am going to
succeed. “Feed of
others poor faith in you
and achieve what you
know you can achieve.”

9. THE PLAN
• Soooo… what’s the plan???
• The plan is going to be fueled by the basics.
But the most important thing about the plan is
that it must be flexible. Life doesn’t turn out
exactly how one expects it to be. If it was
supposed to, many happy people would be
failures. The plan is like play-doh, and can be
remolded at any time.

10. The Plan: Part 1: High School
Finish Up High School Strong
Academically Speaking FOOTBALL!!
• I want to finish up Senor
Year with great grades
and a good ACT, and
good AP Exams. This is
all for college of course
• I want to have a great
Senor football season.
Go HUSKIES!

11. The Plan: Part 2: College
• This Part is pretty simple:
get to college. Study well
there. Get involved in
Activities. Experience new
things. Oh yeah… and have a
ton of fun!

12. The Unknown
• So I don’t have my whole life planed out. I
only have up until college really, really
planned out. But once I’m grown and
successful I really want to make a difference in
somebody’s life or people’s lives. I don’t know
how right now, but I’ll figure it out. This is the
part of my plan that is the most flexible.

13. Oh yeah…
Family House
• Eventually, don’t really care • My house I want to be big,
when as long as it’s not too but not too big. Not a house
late, I will get married I where I haven’t been in
suppose. It would be cool to some of the rooms for a
year because of it’s size but
have kids too I think but I not a small house either.
feel like this might be Just a nice big family house,
thinking a bit too far a head. after I’m done living
through the room mate
experience. I want it to be
really cool and unique too.

14. THE END!!
"It matters not how strait the gate, How
charged with punishments the scroll, I
am the master of my fate: I am the
captain of my soul."