Life Is My College

How I want my life to go and how I want my children’s life to go is this:

 

Wake up early every morning. Let’s start with 9 and increase it by 15 minutes until we hit 5.

 

Let’s work out for two hours every morning. We can do one hour of circuit training and one hour of Muay Thai kickboxing. We can play basketball or tennis and finish up with an 8 minute mile. We can try barre class, SoulCycle, ballet, yoga.
Then let’s go home and read books about things that interest us. Let’s play “CashFlow” and learn about income statements. I’ll teach you how to balance a checkbook and how to do your taxes. We can read about history and pick out a few places a year to see – we won’t be US citizens, we’ll be citizens of the world, we’ll see as much of it as possible. And we’ll come back and see our country differently, see our government differently. Let’s write screenplays and draw for an hour straight. Then we’ll practice languages, because we’ll want to know as many as we can.
After that, we’ll talk about diet. We eat only for energy. Green apples give you energy, pasta makes you sleepy. We won’t have time to be sleepy. Let’s learn about the foods that will keep us the most alert all day. The superfoods that will keep us sharp and on our toes. We’ll make new açaí smoothies and grill up different kinds of chicken. I want you to be healthy so you can keep up with me.

 

After that we’ll sit in front of the tv with a coloring book while you watch a film or two. It can be about anything! We’ll watch Great Gatsby and Titanic, we’ll of course watch my favorite film, Breakfast at Tiffany’s and leave room for Suicide Squad and Batman. We’ll watch films that interest us and feed our souls. We’ll watch films that make us cry, films that teach us new things and lots of things that will make us laugh.
At the end of the night we’ll write in our journals. Maybe about nothing. As long as you do it. It might set the tone for tomorrow’s inspiration. Our life will be centered around inspiration.
Throughout your life, you’ll take classes about anything you want. You’ll meet all kinds of people along the way. They can be math classes, languages, dance, health. You’ll jump into all things and pick out which you like. The journey up until you’ve reached the end goal: Fulfillment.

 

That’s my dream for you. To find your own path to fulfillment.

 

At 18 years old I knew nothing about résumés or how to apply for college, I didn’t know anything about finance or basic fundamentals of fixing everyday things. I wish I had, it would’ve gone a long way. I haven’t found a use yet for graphing a polynomial function.

 

xo

Abie