MY UNIVERSE

Hi everyone! My very first post for 2010! Things have been going pretty well for the 1st few weeks of the year.  After almost 7 years I met one of my closest friend in college and we became business partners! We're branching out to Pangasinan and I am sooooper excited! XD

Because of several changes, I decided that I have to plan every single day of my year. Could you imagine, this is the very first time that I felt the need to use a planner. I was trying to find a planner that suits my personality, a planner that I can personalize and would really inspire me in my everyday ventures! I am not really a fan of the Starbucks Planner. Aside from the fact that I am not a hardcore coffee drinker, I find it very common. So after two days of searching for the perfect planner, I found it! The title itself attracted me as it is exactly what I wanted my 2010 to be. I want to track each day of the year and design it on how I want it to happen! I'm starting the year right! I'm planning ahead!

 

My last post for 2009. This year was a roller coaster ride for me. The first quarter was a thrilling ride. New responsibilities, I was like a kid who was trying to walk. Trying a brand new start after I was introduced to a whole new world. It was a bit of struggle, I was starting from scratch.  Not to mention the time when a part of my life fell apart. I had to reconstruct and build new circle of friends.

The second and third quarter were those times when I was trying to get by. New people met, new places seen. This part of '09 was unforgettable. I've been to some new places. I went to these places  with some old friends, other places with my new friends. And just when I thought that everything was falling into place, what I tried to build was taken away from me. This was the time when I had all the negativities. I felt like everything I worked hard for was thrown into trash. This was the time when I learned that the people that I learned to trust were betraying me. This was the time when I admitted to myself that these kinds of people really do exist, that I shouldn't expect all the people to be nice to you just because you're nice to them. You can't just please everyone so just let it be. But somehow I was happy. Another year was added to my life. I saw my old friends, and some of the new ones were also there. My family was there, and I celebrated my 23rd with a blast.

The 4th quarter of 2009 was my favorite. This was the time of reflection. This was the time when I swallowed the reality pill. This was the time when I had the explanation to why the negative things happened: It happened becauseI wasn't grateful, it was very very wrong to be in that kind of state. Good thing I was able to pull myself together. This was the time when my Wake Up Call was finally revealed to me. I met new people. People who believed in me. People who made me realize my full potential as a person. Finally, I know which direction to take that I can say to myself that I have a blueprint of what will happen to me this coming year. I am excited of what is bound to happen. It is clear in my head, 2010 is my year!

Let's all say goodbye to 2009 with gratefulness to the things that it taught us. Though some not so very nice things happened to our country, though some of the great people left, the lessons learned shall always be remembered. Let it all be our guide on our journey to the coming year.

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.