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Trinity Moore
Strategic Management
Dr. T. Kim
April 5, 2022

A Personal Dilemma

“We are all capable of greatness. I believe that. It is our feelings and fears that convince

us now is not the right time and keep us from achieving greatness.” This quote, written by Mel

Robbins, is something that resonates deeply within me when I think about my future. My dream

life is something that keeps me awake at night. Countless nights, daydreams, while doing every

day activities, and especially now when graduation is literally right around the corner, my future

is something I stress about daily. I stress about whether I should stay in Monroe where all of my

family is, or if I should follow my heart and move to Europe and live in Provence or Florence

like I dream about daily. I stress about where I should work right after I graduate, if I should in

fact get my Master’s degree like everyone wants me to, whether to let certain people into my life,

and a host of other things that all have to be decided within these next two months. Anxiety and

thinking beyond these next two months have caused me to lose an embarrassing amount of hair,

sleep, and time. Regardless, I have determined, through many sleepless nights and daydreams,

many different things that I would like to do before I die.

My major is Business Administration, minoring in Management, with a concentration in

entrepreneurship. I have also taken a liking to the sustainability aspect of business and it is

something that will be incorporated into my plans for the future. With these things in mind, I

have lots of business ideas that I would like to start, even if I don’t end up keeping them

indefinitely. My ideas are all centered around things I love-as they should- which include
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reading, gardening, arts/crafts, cooking, interior design, and traveling. I have always been a

creative person, and as an only child, have had to find ways to entertain myself. This

background has contributed to who I am today. Coming up with new business ideas, and finding

ways that they may become a reality has become a pastime of mine, especially within these last

two years of college. I have already started one business, a candle company, and have loved

every aspect of the research, hard work and long nights that have gone into creating a business.

Within the next couple of years, I plan to start many more.

As stated above, my first business was a candle company, which has helped satisfy that

itch to create, to dive into something wholeheartedly and come up with something that people

love. My next business expenditure will be in real estate and more specifically interior design. I

have already started the process of this by buying my first of many properties that I will fix up

and rent out. Within the next 3-5 years, I plan to have 8-10 rental properties, which will then

help me transition into buying more commercial properties such as office buildings, apartments,

etc. I will start out in Monroe and branch out into other cities, states, and eventually countries. I

also would like to start businesses that coincide with things that I love-bookstores, cafes, garden

stores, zero-waste grocery stores, or combinations of these-which would, of course, be housed in

a building that I have bought. Finding reliable, knowledgeable, and passionate people to oversee

these businesses will be the hardest portion. I am comfortable with funding business expenditure

for people who have the same values as me and would prefer to be an angel investor, if you will,

to those who want to run these types of businesses. I have noticed that I am great with the initial

setup, research and implementation of activities, but not so well at the everyday mundane tasks.

I like the rush and the excitement that comes with starting something new. Going back to my

recently discovered love of sustainability and the above-stated goal of real estate investment, I
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plan to do something to help bring back the biodiversity of our planet. Restoring old farmlands,

abandoned agricultural and urban properties, and deforested lands, and turning them into rich,

biodiverse ecosystems is something that tugs at my heart and is definitely in my plans moving

forward. Restoring the land, while also providing food supply and a home for wildlife is

something that has innumerable benefits.

When I lie awake at night thinking about my future and the things I would love to

accomplish, I also tend to think about what would be the most feasible considering my

personality type, what makes me “me”, what I am good at, as well as where I am lacking.

Throughout my teen years, I have found myself searching for answers about why I am the way I

am and if there are others who go through the same things as me, as most hormonal and angsty

teens do. I have taken numerous personality tests, read countless articles/books, and watched too

many YouTube videos in an effort to find myself. According to the Myers-Briggs Personality

Type Test and others, my type is INTJ-T, or The Architect as they coined me and those like me.

INTJ stands for introverted, intuitive, thinking, and judging and accounts for 2.1% of the

population and only .8% of women. This 16Personalities test has been the most accurate of all

the tests I’ve taken. My strengths as an INTJ personality type include: rational thinking,

informed thinking, independence, determined, curious, and original. Unfortunately, with these

strengths, come weaknesses. I have found that I can be arrogant, dismissive of emotions, overly

critical, combative, and socially-inept. As a naturally introverted person with this personality

type, it has caused me to not have many, if any, friends and not get along with my more

extroverted family members. I would prefer curling up with a good book and tea to any type of

social outing and it is the way I have spent the majority of my life as soon as I learned how to

read.
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I have found that with my personality type’s strengths, come many opportunities for

implementation of personal goals and strategies. With my chosen career path as an entrepreneur,

my strategic, analytical, and creative thinking skills work perfectly. Any job that would allow

for rational analysis, hard work, innovation, and creativity would take perfect advantage of my

skills and allow me to flourish. Some examples of jobs on the more low-profile but influential

side that would be perfect for me would be project manager, cybersecurity specialist, or business

analyst. Jobs on the more creative side would be in architecture, computer programming,

writing, or engineering. I actually started college as a Computer Information Systems major with

the goal of being a Cyber Security Analyst, because I loved the idea of coding and hacking.

Along with opportunities come threats to the life I envision for myself. I am deeply

uncomfortable with confrontation, hate being the center of attention, and have characteristically

shut down when stressed, overstimulated, and tend to do whatever is necessary to avoid it. I

struggle with talking to others, especially conversations that I have not meticulously rehearsed

beforehand. I also tend to either procrastinate until right before a deadline or work continuously

without breaks on a project I find interesting, neither of which are healthy. The urgency of

waiting before a deadline that gives me the adrenaline rush needed to finish a project, has

become an unhealthy habit of mine. The fact that I can only work and work well under this

pressure, and have always finished on time doesn’t help either. A balance must be found soon

and I have to make a conscious effort to correct my time-management skills for future jobs,

relationships, and personal wellbeing.

To achieve my goals for the future, certain actions must take place and certain behaviors

corrected. I, of course, have to find a job to pay for basic necessities such as groceries, and

utilities right after graduation. I also need to work on my time-management skills,

communication skills, as well as finding a healthier way to deal with confrontation. These things

all stem from deeply ingrained social and generalized anxiety, as well as depression. Setting and

sticking to a schedule, changes in sleeping and eating patterns, and going to therapy consistently

are all things that I plan to implement after graduation. Not doing these things will prohibit me

from achieving the life I want. I have discussed above that by buying the house I now have,

instead of renting an apartment, as well as graduating college debt-free, will afford me the

liberties needed to invest in real estate. The money collected from various residential and

commercial rental properties will allow me to invest in stocks. With the acquired funds coming

in monthly from various passive incomes, I am able to become an angel investor for venture

capital firms that fit my previously discussed interests. After successfully escaping the

stereotypical adult life of a 9-5 job, between the ages of 25-30, I will have the financial freedom

to be able to travel and do the things that I love to do while I can still do them. The foundation I

set from now, at the age of 22 till I turn 25, will determine if I will be able to achieve my dream

of living in a cottage in the French countryside in Provence, and creating my own Garden of

Eden.