Motivation

I’m a notoriously unmotivated person. I don’t understand or even really know my own motivations, much less know how to make them work FOR me, but I was watching the final season of Parks and Rec and I got a rare moment of inspiration. Watching all the characters realize their fullest potential and achieve their dreams together surprisingly motivated me to finally do the same.

I know that I do have ambitions. I want to be successful with my career in ways that give me emotional and financial satisfaction. I want to make money so that I can give more and do more to make others’ lives better. I want to make the world better, too.

I have several ideas of how to do these things, but no magic path or certain goals of achievement concrete in my mind. However, I do know that my first step is going to be coming soon. In the next year, my partner and I will have paid off our consumer debt and will be free to cash-flow me returning to school, if I decide to go. I have given myself a year to decide if I do want to return to school and if so, what I want to study. If I decide to go back to school, I’ve given myself the deadline of fall 2019 to pick a Master’s Program and enroll.

Now, I just need to decide what childhood me with her big dreams and ambitions would say should be my next degree. Lawyer, therapist, professor? What’s the next step to awesome?

I’m not sure, but I’m going to find out!