MY UNIVERSE

Its been a while since my last post. I know everyone is busy for the holiday rush, but nope.. this isn't gonna be another Christmas entry. I am excited for the holidays, but I am more excited for next year. 2010 is gonna be my year, I am claiming it... because I really feel it.

I love my life, and yes I know its been worthwhile for the past 23 years. But now I started thinking about what lies ahead. Every decision that we make defines our lives in the next 5, 10 or 20 years that we live. Just like the decision I made 7 years ago when I decided to take up nursing, that is why I am here. Just like any other trend, we all know that this profession has plateaued already. Thousands graduate and pass the boards every year, only to end up in call centers, or worse, a bum. Most of us would spend money to take foreign licensure exams in hope of better opportunities abroad, only to end up waiting for 10 or more years for their papers to be processed. If you have all the means, you can spend almost half a million to be a nursing student again in New Zealand or Australia, your expenses such as lodging and food are of course excluded.

I love this profession; however, as much as I would like to cling to it, I realized that there are better opportunities out there. We just have to be open minded about it. Not because everyone is taking the same road means that it is the only way. Sometimes, taking a different direction would make a difference. I don't have the means of spending that amount of money to study nursing again so I can work abroad, neither am I willing to wait for years for my papers to be processed. Three, five, ten years? If you sum it up... It becomes your life, and I treasure every second of my life that's why I can't just sit around and wait.

Life is all about taking risk. If you don't take risk, well then fine, you won't fail.. but trust me, you won't succeed either. Be a mediocre all your life if that's what you want.  That is not what I want. At this point in time when everything is changing, it's not what you learn anymore that matters, it's how fast you learn new things. I am so blessed to realize these things at this point in time, and I thank my mentors in GFI for letting me swallow the "reality pill." The people who have the most security have the least freedom. I value freedom more than security. Not all the people close to me would understand, but it's all about making choices and having a strong belief in what you are doing.

The greatest realization that I learned this year: "If you want things to change, you have to start doing something different." Every decision that we make defines our life in the next 5 or 10 years that we live. I made a decision which can change my life forever, and I strongly believe that I made the right one.