"😊 We do not choose the day of our birth nor may we choose the day of our death, yet choice is the sovereign faculty of the mind." A dialogue written by Eugene O'Neill.
How impactful is the dialogue! Isn't it!
We can't choose our date of birth or where we have to be born. We can't select our parents, siblings, relatives, or neighbors. But we can choose many other things for our life.
For example, we can pick our careers, friends, spouses, and clients.
So, when we're facing hardships because of the bad elements of our luck, we must have this aspect in our minds that we can pick many things in life despite our miseries. We can't control others' actions, but we can control our reactions. Always bear this in mind.
Therefore, always try to be positive, patient, persistent, proactive, and disciplined in life to achieve your goals.
Agree? Share your thoughts below.
I am one who oftentimes thinks about what I'm thinking about. I've been thinking about forks in the road. I think we all find ourselves standing at these forks and wonder, "Which way should I go?.." And then after we step down that road a spell, we wonder, "Should I have taken the other road?" This happens to me often and I find myself frustrated that I can't take both roads because I just know that everything would turn out differently on the other road, yet there are spots down this road that I need too, so why can't I travel both and have the very best of both worlds? Yeah, I know, thinking about what I'm thinking about. What fork did you face today? Do you feel like you chose the right one? Do you wish your choice would have been the other one? Well, I guess once we take that step we must believe it's the one we were meant to travel, regardless of the number of speed bumps along the way, because we know the other road has bumps too. All of us struggle, have challenges, feel pain, and even feel like giving up sometimes. Without these, though, we wouldn't experience their opposites that make it all worth it. Without the bad in our life, we would not be able to recognize the good. It's that way for a reason, I think… Isn't our struggles a way of measuring our growth, our progress, our ability to move forward?.. So, if we're already on that road, shouldn't we only think of the ways we can make it the very best choice? And if we are to do this, can't we take it a touch further and look forward to the challenges that are sure to surface and not view them as a hindrance, thus hindering our results, but instead as a blessing that will catapult us much further toward that destination, the place that set us on the road to begin with? Isn't it true that no matter where we may be, or where we are going, we can get there from here?... #choices #struggles #decisions #opportunities #rewards
Need some guidance here. I'm single with no dependents. I received 16 weeks of severance pay (paid out every 2 weeks). I will receive my last severance check the first week of December. I have worked retail my entire life but a lot of my experience is on the operational side of retail. I have worked in the credit department, I have analyzed financial reports, I have come up with budgets and have had to work within budgets. I've completed operational audits, opened new stores, supervised inventories, developed training plans and I have done the training. Basically, if it has to do with running a business, I can do it or I can probably learn how to do it. Financial opligations include a mortgage, car loan, and of course credit card debt.
There is no way I will be able to meet my financial obligations once the severance runs out. At that point I will have to get a part time job or get a job that at least pays more than the unemployment. I am confident that I could walk into any store and get a part time job if there is an opening. This presents a few "what if's".
First, I could get a part time job right now and begin getting additional income immediately. This would take time away from me devoting the time into finding full time work right now. I would have to honor my obligation to my part time employer...not just show up when I don't happen to have anything else scheduled.
Second, I could continue looking full time and then get a part time job once severance runs out.
Third, I have been having the most response and interest from employment agencies for contract or contract to hire positions. I don't know what happens to unemployment if I take a contract position and I don't have something else lined up when that contract is over, but I'm assuming I'm out of luck? I would, again, have to line up some way of making money.
Fourth, take a contract to hire job and hope that they like me enough to keep me once the contract is over. Again, I feel like I would be gambling.
Fifth, I could try to find a husband. :-)
Thoughts? Thank you for taking the time to read all of this!