Play by the books.
For me, I’ve heard in my life two different situations. One of them is to be safe and make sure to color within the lines. Then theres that other side which calls for taking risk, coloring everything but inside the lines, and essentially telling the world, “hold on I got this.” My sophomore year at Belmont University began showing me opportunities outside of the university to get involved. As one went by I would consider it and then wait for the next – knowing of course that it would only be a matter of days before another one appeared. Well as I assumed it would, I was given the opportunity to travel with a highly successful musician and document behind the scenes footage for web videos. Hmmm loads of school work or travel the country and get paid. Yeah, this wasn’t one of those “hard” choices in life.
So I took the opportunity and about 4 months later the tour was wrapping up. Keep in mind that I began this in the summer and it had led into the fall semester of school which I was not attending. What was I going to do for the next few months before I would start back up in the spring. Needless to say I started my company called Lifetime Reel and grew the business over two years before again returning to school. I’ll have to write a post just on those two year “dreams” my business partner and I shared.
Was I playing it by the books. Heck no! I had professionals, professors, friends parents, and others telling me and my business partner not to do it. I don’t play by the books and I never plan on coloring between the lines. I won’t follow the rules because as soon as you begin, you’ll never see the opportunities anymore. I’m not saying that all opportunities are good ones, but being able to still chase some is where I get my adrenaline 
