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Wednesday, April 20

Moving Mountains?

What an adventure.

I'm fairly certain that whether I'm trying to accomplish a lot in one day OR sitting around on vacation somewhere, it will always feel like there is just not enough time; it always feels like I'm trying to move mountains.

I have a very vivid memory of myself about 8 years ago. I was on the phone with a girlfriend during the kids' naptime - I was a full time mom OF ONLY TWO at that time - and I was in tears because I was so tired of the "mundane" challenges that consumed my life, and needed to do more to feel like I was contributing to the world... and little by little I began adding to my schedule, adding to my world, and adding to my GOALS, all leading up to where I am today. If only I could have seen the future...

Fast-forward to today: alarm at the crack of dawn, hustle out the door to work, enjoy the day as a working mom with a great job at my college, then hustle and run again gathering up the kids/playing/eating/changing and coming back for class or clinical...and goals? Not just to maintain my sanity. My goals now include bigger things that I never even thought to imagine. Like committing myself to a 3 year, full time nursing program, and putting in the time to be successful. Like running for a national office with an enormous, historical student organization. Like serving our college as President of our Student Government Organization...

What I'm trying to say is that looking back now at myself 8 years ago, on the phone and in tears, I'm amazed at how things have changed. I AM expanding my goals and accomplishing them one at a time...I AM certainly challenged now. Try looking back at yourself a few years ago...is this where you wanted to be, or are you still shaping your goals? (Maybe we will always continue to shape them.) I think we are all moving mountains in one way or another. And it's not our accomplishments, but how we handle the pressure that defines us.

2 comments:

  1. "I think we are all moving mountains in one way or another. And it's not our accomplishments, but how we handle the pressure that defines us"....
    Very well said Medora, a very insightful and
    inspirational comment!

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  2. Thanks, John! I love it as well. I really feel that we all have our own challenges - I hear a lot of "How do you do it?" and "I don't know HOW you do it," but we ALL manage to do things that are way beyond challenging. We all have hurdles. And it's not even a matter of what the hurdles are, but more how we react to them and manage them that makes us who we are. ~M

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