Today's Subject...Transitions

With every situation comes outcomes, and with every outcome there are lessons to be learned.

Today ends a four-year chapter for me. I have recently accepted a new position and will no longer be working in my current role. This transition has forced me to analyze many things. Of course if you know me well enough you know that I can never just accept something; I need to mentally rip it to shreds as if the meaning of it was hidden deep inside. Picture a child tearing into their Christmas presents, that's how I am with finding my truth to each situation I find myself in. My significant other might not think this is my best quality, since he usually has to bear the brunt of my verbal thought processes.

Yes, I tend to over think things. That’s why I was so surprised that this new job opportunity was so effortless. I felt so comfortable on my interviews, and confident that even if Ididn’t get the job that I knew I had done my best. I think God really appreciates when we try our best. So in response to my quarter life crisis that recently engulfed my life like ivy growing on the side of a house, I realized that I was in control this whole time. I had the option to choose my path. Was I going to stay in a stagnant role which didn’t challenge me, or was I going to make a change? If it wasn’t this new opportunity I would have sought out the
next. I am in control.

I have always been the type of person who needs a healthy challenge. Whether it’s trying to court a man 1500 miles away, taking on a graduate degree, or getting that stubborn chocolate stain out of my shirt. I find that when I stay in one situation too long I get bored, when I get bored I get in trouble and when I get in trouble, well you can imagine the rest. What is the most exciting for me now is what awaits me. This new responsibility will be more than a challenge. It will require me to elevate my professionalism, force me to work harder than I ever have before, and it gives me the fresh start to be the employee that I know I can be. I have found that sometimes the people in our lives who don’t have your best interest at heart overshadow our potential with untruths and inhibit our ability to really shine the way we are supposed to.  I am armed now with more experience to be assertive because of these relationships and I am grateful for the roles those people have played in my life as tough as it was. I am stronger, savvier and more attentive to hidden agendas. I vow to be true to myself in every encounter, work to the best of my ability and take on this new adventure with gusto. I resolve to utilize my gift of servant leadership as I move on to what I hope will be greener pastures.

So my situation needed to change, I took control of the outcome and got the fresh start I was looking for, and the lessons I have learned mostly about myself will provide the foundation for a happier, healthier me. This in turn will allow me
to be a better partner, daughter, sister, auntie, and friend and employee to
those people who make me want to be the best I can be.

To those people who shared the same envrionment as me these last four years that have lifted me up, respected me, and provided me with absolute truths…you know who you are-Thank you from the bottom of my heart. I will never forget the
impact you have had on my life.