The aye’s have it. They have it all. The old coined phrase usually refers to some political movement, but in light of all the recent political drama, I vow that it finds a new connotation.

Being raised to be selfless, I was branded to sit back and let others have more before myself. However, there are some cases where you just cannot let yourself be secondary. I’ve decided to let myself be selfish in some things and to let myself have it all. I believe you should let yourself have it all too.

You may not know this but on most Saturdays or Sundays you probably watch people have it all and might not know it. These couple days of the weekend are also known as game days, or yell at the TV until your face turns blue days. These athletes that we fawn over are more than simple beings with unconscious muscles, they inherently are selfish in their movements. If you sat back and asked a few NFL players if they hate their job or only do it because they have a good salary, I believe most of them would say no. They sacrifice their body and time and sanity almost like little hamsters in a weekly experiment of whom families of strangers and their own reap the results. We look up to them and enjoy watching them do their job as they show up to work to either win or lose. The maternal population does not show up to their daily place of employment and question whether they are going to beat another coworker or not. We don’t worry about our acl tearing as we drive to our grind or half of the city being disappointed in us because we misspelled two words on our project proposal. However, we watch these competitors do their job with different motivations and live and thrive in a little rectangle and we enjoy it. We consider them to be some of the most successful people in our nation and why is that? Why can’t we consider ourselves to be successful?

In scandal and in pursuit, businesses and CEOs have a blurred line when it comes to publicity and where it was intended. However one thing these owners and athletes have in common is that they are motivated and selfish. Not selfish in the sense that they don’t like to do for or assist others, but they understand what they want and how to get it. When you add motivated strengths to the equation, there is just no stopping them. I would like to propose the motion to not letting yourself be stopped. To letting yourself have it all. And when you do have it all, then see what your equation equals.