I’ve heard it before and I’m sure you have too. When you were a kid people would tell you that you could be anything you want when you grow up. Some where along the way I think people stop believing that. Now did I ever think I wanted to be a project manager? No, I didn’t, but as I learned what I wanted to be in life I realized it was much more than a project manager. My goal of being an entrepreneur has required me to take many paths. I once worked at:
- A Public Library as a Page
- Payless shoes
- Burger King flipping burgers (I hated working the drive thru)
I even worked as a concrete mason doing flat work, as a network support specialist, a tech support supervisor. I’ve faced much adversity in my journey to becoming an entrepreneur. At times I’ve misunderstood that adversity for what it really was…an opportunity. I’ve been laid off from 3 jobs due to the economy, but each resulted in me finding the next job that only helped to build my credentials toward the next great job! Even, now I am building, yet facing the adversity of my own limits. Being a project manager has taught me to collect my lessons learned and if I can use them to better myself and to help others I’m excited to do so. I once believed I wouldn’t achieve much when I was a page and when I worked at burger king. I knew people who were 39 and worked there for 8 years. I often wondered if that would be me. Everyone’s life of course is different and I’m not looking down on anyone, but I do realize I made different choices and today I am 28 years old with a
- Master of Business Administration
- Master of Project Management
- Graduate Certificate in Project Management
- BS in Network and Communications Management
- Project Management Professional Certification
and work for one of the largest organizations in the world. I have a number of successes behind me, but it’s my failures that can become a bit of a shadow if I allow them to be. Sometimes we allow our mistakes to tell us what we’ve become.
Some say that I am quite ambitious, but my dreams really are no bigger than yours. They probably fit on the same pillow as the one you sleep on. Yet, the difference is in what we do about the dreams we lie on. I sometimes get discouraged in the difference between where I am and where I want to be, but the difference in where I was and where I am is much more significant. It’s not the glass is half full thing because it’s almost full. It’s almost brimming over. I just have to find those last drops of water make opportunity spill over into success.
Studying for the PMP was just one drop in that cup and boy did I study to obtain it. You see if my dream is a puzzle, but I have only a box cover of the puzzles picture, I still have to obtain all the pieces to put it together. What does this mean for you? What does this have to with getting the Project Management Professional (PMP) certification? It means having all the right pieces of the puzzle to put together your dreams. Does having that one piece result in receiving your dreams? Probably not, but it can be the piece the makes the dream complete. Never give up on completing that dream. You are never to young and never to old.
Are you ready to complete your dream? I’d love to hear your opinions on what “pieces” of your puzzle would complete your dream. Leave a comment below.
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I even worked as a concrete mason doing flat work, as a network support specialist, a tech support supervisor. I’ve faced much adversity in my journey to becoming an entrepreneur. At times I’ve misunderstood that adversity for what it really was…an opportunity.
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