Energy from having the smarts, I hear it's true!!

I was researching the job field I am trying to enter, and developing a plan on how to get there, ideas started poring out of me, faster than I could scribble (and I was furiously scribbling let me tell you!) So as I felt this renewed energy I haven't felt in a while, I realized it is because I have no challenge in my life, everything seems mundane and ordinary to me. I am bored. This new research got me excited, and it felt like I could almost feel my intelligence start to buzz up and grow! I think this made me realize that I need a change, and while I am not exactly sure what form that change is going to come in, it needs to happen.

Lately I have been doing a lot of thinking about my career and I was beginning to wonder what the point of remaining in this role for so long was. Then I realized, my role for the past 3.5 yrs, it was a stepping stone. It allowed me to see where my skills lay, I had no idea I was this numbers oriented, this analytical, this blue! I realized (especially over the last year) that I have a real talent with analytics and planning and risk management.

I look at me the last few months at work and I remind myself of me in my high school days. I knew if I half-ass tried, I would do a better job than most people do when they try and I don't mean this arrogantly but I didn't try in high school, did all my projects last minute and then got honours. So now, I am looking at my last few months at work and I see a mirror image 10 years later. It kind of shocked me.

So I have cut back on saying yes to all my time and have committed myself to learning and doing what I need to do to get what I want, because I figure why can't I? What is stopping me? If I am determined, why can't I get a better paying, more challenging job? Why can't I eventually become a contractor and take half the year off eventually? Why can't I travel and write and make money from that? People do it! People get what they want! How did someone become a millionaire? They didn't sit on their asses and hope just maybe the would be rich, no, they knew they could.

 

So watch out world, and as a good friend said, I am going to hurricane my intelligence (like my other friend did!) You two are jewels in my world ocean by the way J