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believe in intelligent design this question can be answered by a spiritual quest to get closer to your maker, but even if you do not believe in intelligent design I suggest that getting in touch with your genealogy will give you some deep insight with which to draw from. What problem were you created to solve? This question can be answered by learning about you. Read books and attend lectures that will help you discover your personality type, talents and areas of interest. Where can you best be used? What career fields most interest you? What problem do you have a passionate desire to solve? Figure this out and then begin to take classes and go to school to develop your skills in this area. You must become an expert in your field. After all, you would expect your doctor to have a medical degree and your contractor to have a license.

When will your opportunity meet your dream? This may be easier to answer than you think. Do you have a five-year plan? When you write down your plan it is amazing how many opportunities begin to present themselves.

Why were you created to solve this problem? The answer to this question refers back to the thing that you feel most passionate about. While it may at first seem like you feel passionate about something you love, do not start there. Start with the thing that upsets you the most. Is it poverty, politics, unfair treatment in the workplace? Make a list and then figure out how you were made to solve the problem. Once you solve the problem in your mind it will most likely become a dream to solve it for real. That is when the fireworks really start to explode.

In 1971, a young Yale business student by the name of Fred Smith had such a dream. He recognized a giant problem in the postal business worldwide and he had an idea as to how to solve it. Young Fred constructed a term paper about his dream to which his professors turned up their noses. His idea was to ship packages overnight by air. In 1971 no one had ever heard the concept of airfreight. Packages were simply extra baggage on passenger planes, and the idea that someone would offer overnight delivery service seemed not only unattainable but unprofitable as well. Fred Smith wrote about his dream and for all of his effort he received a less than average mark on his term paper.

Perhaps Fred was one of those kinds of people who are propelled forward by adversity, or perhaps he just knew he had a good idea. Nevertheless, as Fred pressed forward with his idea, he must have

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