Fresh Dose of Optimism from Kentucky!!

How has the economy affected you and your life? Have you found yourself in a “dead-end” useless job making less than you are “worth?” Danielle, one of my blog readers, wrote in from Kentucky about how she turned despair and hopelessness into optimism despite the failing economy!

Danielle is a medical assistant who worked three long years to earn her associates degree only to find that the job market for her field is unpromising. She applied for countless jobs as a medical assistant and finally accepted a job as a bakery clerk.

Danielle felt like a failure, she believed that she was starting “at the bottom again.” How could she be respected in this world while earning low wages and working under a meaningless title?

After reading the blog: Does your career define you? Danielle realized that she was chasing “societies” dreams and expectations, rather than her own. When she sat and reflected deeply about her life and her dreams, she realized: she already had a rich, successful, and respectable life!

                             “Sometimes things need to fall apart before the fall into place”

She recognized that failure did not result from absence of high wages, or a fancy job title; failure occurred when she degraded and gave up on herself because she allowed societies perceptions to determine the value of her life.

Danielle married her best friend on earth, and her goal is to devote her life to raising a wonderful and loving family. Happiness and success radiates from Danielle when she chooses to focus on what genuinely matters in her life.

   “When life veers from the course you planned out, re-evaluate your priorities, and maybe you’ll find that what you have is better than what you had planned”