Dealing With Bipolar? Discover what this can do
Published: Tue, 06/22/10
Hi ,
How's it going?
Hope you are doing well.
As many of you know, I had a change in
careers some time back.
I used to work at a very different sort of
job, before I realized how serious the
situation with my mother really was.
Then I stopped working at that job and
took a lot of time off to study anything
and everything about bipolar disorder.
In the end, it paid off.
My mother is now experiencing recovery,
and I have a new career that I am happy
in.
In this case, a change in plans was the
best thing possible.
Changes in plans can honestly be scary
though.
You never know if it's going to be for the
best or not.
Plus, you had spent that entire time making
those other plans, only to change them??
It usually seems like it's the worst case
scenario.
Change is uncomfortable no matter what,
but when it threatens what you thought
was your future, it can be downright
frightening.
But sometimes it is for the best.
Like, for example, when the plans you
had suddenly prove to not be a good thing.
They may have sounded like a good thing
when you made them, in fact they probably
did.
But when it's all said and done, they will
do more harm than good.
Sometimes it's because you just changed
your mind.
A good example of this is a college student.
They get partially through their second
year of college, when they have just
started to take classes in their field, and
they suddenly realize they don't like that
field after all.
Well, if they are that early in their college
years it will be easy to change their
field.
If they are further along it will seem like
more time has been wasted.
But sometimes, under certain
circumstances, that is necessary also.
For instance, if someone was going to
school for construction, and they suddenly
become paralyzed, they might change
their major to drafting (making the plans
for construction projects.)
Since the fields are so similar, it won't
have been wasted time; the time spent
in learning construction will actually help
them understand the concepts of
drafting.
I know of someone who dreamed all their
life of this one career, and finally got it.
But then they realized that, as much as
they loved it, there was no financial
security in it.
So now they still do it as a hobby, but for
a career they have chosen something else.
I've heard it said that a change of plans
is sometimes the shortest way home.
What this means is that sometimes you
need to change your plans to get to where
you want to go.
And if that is true, continuing to try the
original plans won't get you very far.
Now, of course, all of this is for certain
circumstances.
Not everyone needs to change their plans,
and certainly not about everything.
You have to use your better judgment to
decide that.
But when it does come time to change
plans, don't worry about the time lost.
Instead, focus on what you learned during
all that time that you can take with you
to make your life better, and the lives of
those around you.
Now what do you think of that?
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Well, I have to go!
Your Friend,
Dave
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