Rising Senior

In keeping with my previous post of marching forward, I will add to it the thought of individuality. All of the marches I’ve seen are corporate, with someone inside or outside of the formation giving the commands. Each individual submits to the call to be in unison. Mind you, these marches are specific to their end goals.

When the command ‘fall out’ is given to enlistees, they may disband and leave the formation, though not permitted to stray too far from the company. To be dismissed implies that the formation has ended completely for this session and that the people may take leave.

After dismissal from formation, I can march to the beat of a different drummer, whose cadence and steps sync with my soul’s rhythms. Here I express my own creativity and move more freely. I guess what I’m saying here is that there are times to promote the spirit of unity, or move in unison to achieve a particular goal, and there are those times we act independently of the crowd to refresh and aspire to self-gratification.

Yesterday I was prepared to continue on the path of discipline and consistency when life happened. Nothing major – just my schedule thrown off because my network was down, so I wasn’t able to get on here and post as I’d intended. This led to my shuffling my schedule around and though I was somewhat off track, I still managed to do most things on my to do list. Throughout the day I entertained some fleeting thoughts about posting, only to have them vaporized amid other tasks that were more physically imposing.

I choose not to fret over what I didn’t accomplish yesterday cause I can’t alter what did or didn’t happen. I do have today to start anew, make changes and progress from the lessons learned.

I am making a concerted effort to write something for this blog on a daily basis, however long or short. I was thinking about using the prompt to get me started but just decided to flow with my thoughts today. I’m sure I will have the opportunity to use the prompts.

Today I celebrate because I’m in the process of changing some goals and moving forward into a venture that’s been long overdue. I’ve had business in me since I was a kid and I’ve been pretty much a self employed/independent contractor of sorts for most of my adult life. I was able to combine my creativity with business through cosmetology and was successful at it. My dream was to help others to reach their goals and potential as I had done. Cosmetology education was the route that I chose, so I established a school. My school was in operation for seven years and proved to be the most challenging and rewarding at the same time. Unfortunately, I had to close the school because of the ensuing economic downturn.

Thankfully, my coach helped me to see my accomplishment through a different lens. Instead of looking back at what I hadn’t accomplished, she steered my vision toward where I had actually been successful. I now see myself progressing toward my new goals without fear and with confidence to do the seemingly impossible.

This is the next day, the new day!