Good day everyone! I hope the New Year is treating you with respect so far! If not, tell it to do better! 😀
As you can see, I have come to accept that my Bloganuary is going to look very different to everyone else’s as I have unintentionally added a twist to it. Random days, random posts but hey! It seems to do the trick… I think?
I have grown to learn over the years that ‘success’ is quite literally a subjective term. What one may define and view as success differs from the next person. This discovery has helped me a lot in terms of thinking about the things I want to achieve, how I will achieve them and ultimately about where I am in life and how far I have come.
A little background story:
In the last 4 years, I’ve felt so overwhelmed and the feeling only grew by the day. I genuinely felt like I failed and was unsuccessful at achieving the small things as well as the big things. It made coping a little challenging. For a while, it felt like I lacked resilience and strength. Sometimes I wish I could have been doing more or better things.
Having studied nursing, being qualified as a nurse and now working in that field sometimes makes me believe or feel like I don’t have to be overly vulnerable and just power through. I almost forgot about my struggles and moved on. And because of that, I felt empty and confused. I eventually realised that I cannot keep buying food to share if I cannot afford it. In other words, I cannot keep attempting to give my all and best if there is nothing in me to give.
If things don’t plan out the way they ought to be, then maybe it’s just not the right time and I’m slowly beginning to accept that that is okay. With time, things will fall into place when it needs to.
Fast forward to now:
When I reflect on the past, I’m just amazed by how far I’ve come. I literally thank God for his grace, love and strength to carry me on. Because in those 4 years:
I achieved awards including a national award.
I qualified and became a professional Life Coach.
I survived my undergraduate degree and became a Paediatric Nurse.
I managed to power through my preceptorship and gain a range of different (and specialist) clinical skills.
I am a mentor.
I am a writer.
I had the opportunity to co-facilitate a lecture.
I am just about scaling through my post-graduate degree.
I am still here despite experiencing mental health.
And counting.
Aren’t they all achievements? Isn’t that what success looks like? That is what I constantly have to remind myself. My success is not determined by others but myself. It is not measured by how fast I can do something, but rather, by how well I do it. I decide what success is to me. I decide what success looks like. And I am at the centre of it all.
We all eat a slice of cake. No one benefits more than the other. Setting your own goals for yourself without comparing yourself to others and recognising that we should primarily focus on our craft and keep chasing our dreams is what will eventually lead to success. Our OWN personal success.
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