Glenda’s NACC Blog

I can’t believe how fast this semester is going. It seems like it was just yesterday that we started, and now here we are nearing the end of the semester.  I have been so busy that I haven’t written anything in a few days, but I have found a thought to be constantly on my mind and it has served me well-so much so, that I would like to share it with you.

There have been a few times in my life that I really felt proud about something, just as I’m sure there have been for you. I know that my greatest accomplishment is raising my family, but I’m talking about things on a personal level. For instance, one of my proudest moments is when I was asked by the C.E.O. of a Skilled Nursing Facility to consider taking the job of being head of admissions. I took it and I did well. In fact, I loved it; but I know now that it was not to be my greatest moment.

These times are good and we indeed do change from them because we learn and we grow, but it’s not every day that we have these kinds of opportunities. However I have learned something recently that I should have learned a long time ago.

I have personally found the following to be true: Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but rather in rising every time we fall. (Confucius) There are going to be times in our lives, that at the best of what we think we can do, we are still going to fall flat on our face. If you were to look at me real closely these last few days, you would probably see some of my battle scars from where I hit the ground. In fact, one might think that I fell into a meat grinder.

However, I have learned that some of our greatest accomplishments comes from falling and then brushing ourselves off to rise again.It really is one of our greatest moments in life because doing this is not easy.

It’s easy to take on a job, a new challenge, or whatever when someone is telling you how much they would love to have you and how they love your work. It’s real easy to go after something when someone has your back, or when the corners are so full of people cheering you on that you have to bring out chairs to accommodate them all, but it’s not so easy to pick yourself up off the ground when you feel alone and everything inside you is saying “what’s the use?”

This is where that you and I really accomplish the most. The fact we rise again, insures us that we are going to yet again have an opportunity to move forward and have those moments of glory that we all enjoy. If we never got past our failures we would live in a land of dry and barren bones, but when we rise again and keep going forth, it’s like new life is breathed into us and before long we feel strong again and looking forward to reaching our goals.

I had never before considered those rising up moments as being one of my greatest accomplishments until now. Being able to forgive ourselves for falling short and having others to forgive us is such a great gift. In fact, in the bible we’re taught it is the “greatest of gifts”, to be forgiven by God and to forgive others as He has forgiven us.

So if you’re like me and sometimes feel that you’ve fallen short of the mark and you’re beating yourself up for it, try with all you have to stop and rise up again. Admit your shortcomings, forgive yourselves, seek the forgiveness of others if need be, and then smile; because whether you realize it or not, you have just accomplished something great.  You have just picked yourself up off the floor and you’re well on your way to reaching your goals.

For some of us it will be nursing, and for others it will be a different field. It doesn’t really matter what the destination is, it matters only that you reach it!

To our success,

Glenda