Because I really don’t have a choice. It’s either go back to school and hopefully educate myself further so I can get a better job I enjoy with a better work environment OR be miserable doing a job/jobs that I dont feel empowered in and I’m not taken seriously.
Now is the time to make the change. Not when I’m 40, miserable and trying to raise kids if for some reason I have some.
These are words ive tried my best to live by the last three years. Definitely assisted in getting me the life I have today <3
Because its the most selfless thing I could do for my future. I know that my future self will be so proud of what my past self (currently present self) did so that my future self could have a better everything.
Because I was told I couldn’t
When I was in Kindergarten I was told I was slower and needed to be held back. If I wasn’t going to be held back, I was told I would struggle my whole life and not amount to much.
I ended up not being held back which I am happy about but the consequence was being put down by my negative and pessimistic mother who always doubted my capabilities even when I started to prove her wrong. I was reminded that I was slower and always had a harder time throughout my whole life. She’s always had a way of looking at the worst case scenario of every situation.
Im happy to say that sure I did struggle, but im also alot younger than everyone else I went to school with. Down side to having a late birthday. It really does make a huge difference. BUT even though the person/people in my life who were supposed to empower me to be better and never did, I was still able to make something of myself and im very happy and proud of where I am.
Life is good and its all because I created this path for myself :)
Ive loved this quote for almost two years “A dream is a wish your heart makes”.
I didnt know where it came from. Just thought it was great. Then I saw it on some random persons facebook and it had more words too it. After a quick google search I have come to learn that it’s cinderella!!! Awesome!
A dream is a wish your heart makes
When you’re fast asleep
In dreams you lose your heartaches
Whatever you wish for, you keep
Have faith in your dreams and someday
Your rainbow will come smiling thru
No matter how your heart is grieving
If you keep on believing
the dream that you wish will come true
This little girl right here is an inspiration I NEVER knew I had until this past summer when I met her.
She is my uncles daughter, making her my cousin. I hadn’t seen my uncle in 10 years do to family sucking hard and never had the opportunity to get to know him. That was until my cousins wedding in the summer. I was skeptical of the kid at first, because im truly not a fan of kids who throw fits and are misbehaved.
I was delighted after spending some time with her that she isn’t like one of those kids you see in wal-mart. She is so well behaved, a little person with her own thoughts, feelings, and desires. It was like love at first sight; instantaneous.
I never had a role model in my family growing up. My older cousin that I wish I could of looked up to was too busy with boys, drugs, and teen pregnancy to ever pay attention to me until she needed a babysitter that is..
My little cousin inspires me because I want her to have someone to look up to. She may only be 2 years old, but I think she will eventually take notice of the things im doing for myself. I want her to go to university and I want her to see that you can have whatever it is that you dream for yourself. You just have to do the work to get there.
I don’t know what I would do now if I didnt have her in my life. She just has this way of making everything better. Especially when she is just as excited to see me as I am to see her!
Right now there is nothing and/or no one in my way of going back to school full time.
Ive been single for two years. I like to think its by choice, but we all know its because of a lack of a good pool of men here in Lethbridge. So for the time being im going to embrace being on my own and try to do as much as I can for myself before I do happen to magically meet someone here. Either way. I wont let anyone stand in my way of completing this degree, not even some dude.
As I sit in class not paying attention to these monkeys playing with one another I realized my job is inspiration in a good way. Every day I see people and assist in making their dreams come true. I get a little jealous because their doing the things I want to be doing, but because of that, it makes me want to get this degree done that much more so I can be one of those people.
I got my english final mark back today from my prof from last semester. I didnt think I would do very well. 2 papers in 3 hours when I didnt take less than 2 weeks to write the term papers, yeah not optomistic. I was pleasantly surprised and ridiculously happy when I found out i got an A in the class, but I was curious how I did under pressure. I am so thrilled with this mark. I got an A+ on one of the papers and a B on the other to make a beautiful A-!!
Whenever I doubt myself or get test anxiety I will remember this!
This is what I wake up to every single day. My favorite quote “A dream is a wish your heart makes” is above the picture frames (which you cant see) and in each of those picture frames is one of my accomplishments I never dreamed of having for myself. It was never what I was aiming for.
NOW it’s everything. I love waking up to what i’ve done for my life in a short amount of time. I can’t wait to have my degree, CMA designation and/or Masters hanging up on a wall as well!
Can’t wait!!!
My job and all of the past jobs Ive had
I graduated high school almost 5 years ago. I was working in a restaurant and loved it for the most part. It wasn’t until I started working full time that it hit me. I CANT DO THIS MY WHOLE LIFE. It was so much working on my feet and the work environment I had to put up with was NOT WORTH MY TIME. It didn’t take me long to realize school was the answer.
I enrolled into a two year program away from home in Edmonton. I lived on my own, gained some perspective and was able to get an internship at the college back home the summer in between. I went back to finish my last year with the intention that it would be just that, my last year. Something happened to me though, I realized after watching my parents go through a divorce during that time, that a diploma wouldn’t be enough, not in this day and age, and I absolutely refused to end up like my parents: struggling to make ends meet, miserable…I also had great experiences with instructor’s who believed in me, that I was smart and could do so much more with my life than just administration. The sky was the limit!
I moved back home after my two year diploma to what ended up being a year long job at the college. I started taking classes there while I worked. I thought I was working towards a diploma in accounting, but after taking 4 classes there I was bored. I wasn’t challenged. I felt like I knew what my instructor’s wanted out of me as a student. All I had to do was give that to them and I was doing fine in the classes, or I felt like they gave you the answers. I wasn’t being challenged to my greatest ability. I could do better. And even though classes were half the cost, it wasn’t worth it to me to not be growing intellectually. It was time to try something new. If you constantly surround yourself with the same old environments, you wont grow, you just stand still.
That’s when I decided I needed more, much more even though I knew I would be starting from scratch. 7 classes out of 40 transferred to the U of L. I’m still currently working full time and taking classes part time, but EVERYDAY my job is motivation to never stop learning and furthering myself because I dont enjoy what im currently doing.
The education I do have has single handedly changed my life from what it was. It absolutely turned around from the path it was on just 4 years ago. I can’t imagine how much “richer” my life will be after a degree!
I can’t wait <3
I want to remember how today, February 26, at almost 2:00am I was thinking about how after I complete this spring class, and after I complete my independent study I will have 30 classes for sure left to go (but probably 33 with my minor) and how I CAN’T wait till that day when I can say Im halfway through (approx 21 classes completed.) And then when that time comes, I will look back and remember how on February 26 I was technically 13 classes away from that moment which seemed like it would never come, but the time actually went by ALOT quicker than one would think.
I CAN’T WAIT!!!!!
