Well its over… Or maybe it has just begun! As promised I have shared some photos from the aftermath of my hotel cramming (for those of you who have not seen the movie Paper Chase check it out, at least the hotel scene will crack you up). After making a 230 page summary, writing 432 pages of notes, doing somewhere around 1,500 practice questions and fifty practice essays, coming up with at least a dozen new ways to exercise while reading or sitting in a chair, watching around 100 hours of lectures, spending probably near 900 hours preparing, shedding more tears than I can count, a wedding, a two day management retreat, a jump from 13,000 ft, about a dozen meetings, thirty conference calls, who knows how many emails and experiencing the most significant personal growth I have ever been lucky enough to come across in thirty years… the process started on May 26th has come to an end. Tomorrow I will write the exam that stands between me and the achievement of a dream I honestly thought was a fantasy when the motivation first struck me around twelve years old. For years I had given up on it as a possibility. Until I was maybe twenty-one I thought that getting even one university degree was a real stretch and pursuing a law degree and becoming a lawyer would be darn near impossible. Luckily for me those limiting beliefs were overcome and more recently through the pursuit of this dream I found something I did not even know I was looking for that is infinitely more important! I will be eternally grateful for the many people who have invested so much into me and supported me to overcome the limits in my own mind. There is a saying along the lines of: “it takes a village to raise a boy to a man” and my case is certainly no exception to that truism. Rather than wait until my result come in I wanted to thank some of the family, friends, mentors, and colleagues who have been particularly helpful along the way (and I will thank them all again when the results come). It dawned on me that beyond just thanking people I should try to pay it forward with a story/exercise that may help others. So I have offered in a note below a series of questions to guide a thought exercise that I hope may help other people and I have also included a detailed thank you at the end to some of the many very special people who have helped me along the way. Thanks to everyone who supported me! Game time!
Posted on: Mon, 28 Jul 2014 22:18:42 +0000
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