How to start

To school or not to school, that is the question I ask of thee.

Or rather, this is the question I had to ask myself. It took a bit of evaluating my circumstances, my goals, my desires and my own self confidence. The first was easy, circumstances are what you make of them. If you want it bad enough you'll find a way.

The second, my goals, was also easy. I want to grow in my career, professionally and personally, and furthering my education will help me achieve that.

The third, my desires, was also easy. I have always wanted to go back to school. For various reasons I was not able to. The biggest obstacle was my children, or so I always told myself. They are now teens and on their way to asserting their independance, so I could not use them as an excuse anymore.

The fourth, my own self-confidence, was the hardest issue for me to overcome. This is probably the biggest obstacle that has kept me from returning to school. Once I admitted to myself that I could, in fact, go back to school and be successful at it, there really was nothing left to hold me back.

So, here I am. An "older" student working towards her Associates degree in business with hopes of going on to get her bachelors.

That is my history. My next post will explain how I started.

Feel free to send your own experiences in going back to school. I would love to share stories and experiences.

Till next time.