Friday, March 8, 2013

The Road to Success Isn't a Lonely One

This week has been rough. Too much to do and too little time. At least that's how it seems through my student's eyes. I may have missed a deadline, but not because I didn't work hard.

While I was shoveling snow today, and wasting time feeling sorry for myself, while cursing my neighbors who all have snow blowers, and do the job in half the time I thought of all the wonderful things that happened to me this week, and even this month. I decided to get out of the self pity swamp that I have put myself in. Why is it our human nature to focus on the negative, on the shortcomings, on the 1% that we missed?

This past month has been wonderful, and I will share why. This week I found out that my research abstract was accepted to be presented at that Northeast Regional Nurse Practitioner's Conference that will be held in May. I am greatly looking forward to that. I was able to get a perfect score on my psycho-pharmacology exam, with a comment that said "congratulations on a stellar exam". My professor is awesome and he will not compliment if not deserved, so this one I took very seriously. My advisor commented on my manuscript and called a me "a great writer". I had a great week at work, I am adjusting well, I am meeting new people, and patients seem to be transitioning well to my style.

Most important than all that were two messages that I have received from my daughters. I still read them often and relive the warmth they brought to my soul. They go as follow:

"I want to thank you for everything you've ever done for us. It never ceases to amaze me how wonderful  you are. I've only gotten this far in life because I have the strongest female example to learn from. I love you."

"Hey Ma, I just wanted to say thank you for everything. I know I don't say it enough but I appreciate everything you do for me. Love you."

 All this wonderful things didn't go to my head or make me feel arrogant, by contrary I thought of the people that had been there to help me. I thought about God as my source of wisdom. I thought of the person that helps the most, and that is my mother. She does so much for me that I will need a notebook to write it down. She has been taking care of the things that I don't have the time to do so I can focus on the studying part. She knows how much disorganization stresses me out, and she makes sure the environment looks to the part. That is priceless. I also thought of my two youngest kids who never complaint when I am too tired to cook, too late for dinner, didn't get to the laundry on time, and so on.

I am so blessed. For all my successes this past month I will thank God, my mother and my children who are my greatest love and biggest motivation.

Looking back, I guess shoveling was therapeutic after all.





2 comments:

  1. Awesome. It is good to refocuse our thinking to our positives accomplishments.:) thanks for sharing.

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    1. Thank you Yakaira. I believe its not only good to refocus but necessary. Positive energy is a magnet for good for positivity. The power that it has is invaluable. Thank you for reading my blog.

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