Listen, we all have our less than motivating moments. There are more days than not that I would rather lounge on the couch with my fiancée than go out and run, or make myself study. I don't enjoy getting up for work every morning, and I certainly don't want to be there for eight hours (sometimes more). I've been seeing this trend lately within my generation. Some (not all) don't have any desire to work. Some have no desire to go to school or learn a trade. They have no desire to intern anywhere, and then they wonder why they graduate with a degree and can't get a job. I'm here to tell you two things. The first is that the world owes you nothing. Not a single thing. You owe the world more than the world owes you. Second, the person responsible for your motivation and success is you. Not your parents. Not your boyfriend. Not your priest, and definitely not your professor.

Life is unfair sometimes. I get it. Some of us have gotten dealt a bad hand in life. Some of us were born with debilitating illnesses that affect us daily. Some people are diabetics and are forced to stick themselves with needles every day to stay alive. Some of us have severe anxiety, and others depression. Some people were born into a terrible family situation or were born into a bad situation financially. Obviously, some of these situations are worse than others. I know life is tough. However, every single person I know has something that isn't 'perfect'. If you have money, your home life might not be great. If you don't have money, maybe you have the most amazing family. Or maybe you have neither. I'm here to tell you that no matter what your predicament is, there is a way out of it. There is a way towards the light at the end of the tunnel, and there is a way towards a good life. It doesn't matter how you start, it's how you finish. Even if you're just scraping along, crawling to the finish, that is what matters.

Stop blaming things on everyone else. Your professor sucks? Great! More motivation to study the material. Your parents didn't raise you to be a motivated individual? Find your motivation in other people. You didn't go to a great high school? Even better. Work hard and get to the top of your class. There is nobody else in this world that is more responsible for your success than you are. Nobody is going to hand it to you, and rightfully so. If everyone was handed the same amount of success, what would success really mean? It would mean mediocrity, and I'm definitely not okay with that.

Go out and earn it. You aren't going to get a great job fresh out of college unless you went for a specialized field like nursing or teaching. I'm not sorry to burst your fragile bubble if you thought you were going to get an amazing job fresh out of school with zero experience. Your degree is maybe one-third of the battle. Who's going to hire a twenty-two-year-old fresh out of school with no experience, and a resume that only reads one or two employers? Nobody. You might get lucky with an extremely entry level position. Go out and earn that amazing job. Work your behind off. Find internships every summer of college. Prove to your future employers that you deserve to be sitting behind that desk. I don't care what your major is, nobody wants to hire someone for an amazing job if they have no proof to back it up. Your resume is nobody's responsibility but yours.

In the end, you are responsible for you. Nobody else is. Nobody else is responsible for your motivation, success and drive. Find it within. It's in all of us, sometimes you just need to get kicked enough times to find it.