After a long time of just cruising through life, I've finally grabbed the wheel and set myself into a specific direction. As of April 1st, I will begin working towards my BBA (and ultimately an MBA) with a concentration on management! A couple of years ago I came across the opportunity to get free college education and took up the offer to work on a degree in IT. During the year and a half or so I was taking the classes, I realized I didn't actually have any direction in my head about what I would ultimately want to do with that degree. Eventually I backed out of pursuing that education because I just didn't feel strongly enough about what I wanted to do with it.
However, since getting a promotion and some other life changes a few months ago, I've been feeling a sense of direction relating to being a "leader" in a more official capacity. A few nice words from people you know can go a long way to helping you realize just what you're capable of. I've known for a long time that people liked to follow my lead, even though I hated it. I've hated being the center of attention and that kind of thing for a long time, but lately I've come to see myself as an adult (it only took me turning 41 to do so) and have become comfortable proud to challenge myself and see what I am capable of!
On a side-note, one of the big things I can honestly say I've noticed has helped my change of attitude is trying to clean up bad habits. I've made extra efforts to avoid eating junk food, and I've been cutting back pretty heavily on coffee consumption. While weight loss is a great thing to experience from these changes, the coffee change in particular has helped to curb my anxiety immensely! It'll be really interesting to see how long I can last with that change since I genuinely love coffee (especially trying coffee at a new cafe/restaurant). I think keeping the obvious reduction in anxiety in mind, I should be able to keep myself on track pretty easily.
(I even got myself a new headshot PFP to use in the more "fancy" places!)