I'm a native Californian living in Hawaii. I have a circle of a few friends that I consider family. As they say family isn't always blood. I will be posting about insights that arise in my life being a military tech student(Navy), a new mom, and my journey trying to achieve a flow and organization in my life. Really just a way of simplifying life to achieve balance and happiness and cutting out all the noise. I don't believe everything I see and hear so I love coming across content where people put in thoughtful and researched comments that can open up other perspectives. I believe you can tell so much about a person by just understanding what motivates their actions. I will repost anything I come across that helps me because maybe it will help someone else.
Because there are only 24 hours in a day I have had to focus and zoom in on "What exactly is important to me?" "What is so important I am willing to sacrifice my time, my health, my family?". Ill go into more depth on this in later discussions but for now just know there were a few milestones along the way that led me to question this time I was taking for granted.
So many life lessons between June 9, 2016 (the day my daughter was born):
All the way back to December 12, 2006 (the day I joined the military)
It took 10 long years to get it together (what can I say Im hard headed)
So my typical day goes something like: wake up early(before child) -juggle in writing a Steem intro, some studying, or anything I really want to do. Go to work where I sneek in WhatsApp Video Chats with the baby:
More Steem browsing - under the guise of "Work". Feel the eerie presence of the boss man carefully trying to look over my shoulder, through my privacy screen, to see what Im working on. I ask boss man a question about work to make it appear that indeed I am working on "Work". Turn back around and repeat the cycle until I go home to the baby.
Now you might say something has to give- you cant continue on with that insanity forever. And this is true. I told myself EVERYDAY "How the hell can I get out of this job that I HATE". I cant quit I have a baby now and need the money. So I began looking for other options. I decided I needed to downsize so I started getting rid of all the extras in my life that were costing me time and money. I applied for my Masters degree - and after not allowing 3 years of rejection to get me down I can announce March 2018 I become a full time student at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterrey.
I followed the link on mashable.com to a post by detailing the whole Steemit process. I was a bit overwhelmed but I liked what I saw and loved that there is an outlet where my dreams wont get crushed everyday for the sake of "Being realistic". So I set up my account (and after a LONG 2 week wait for approval) I was in.
I am now here for the journey. I love the idea of sharing and becoming part of a community with so many diverse views. I am not on any other social media-(mainly because I had to be super selective with my time and this is the platform I chose)
Im interested in contributing and motivated to see this platform grow- the extra prospect of actually hosting a witness and in turn having a stake in the communities success had me SOLD. Although I am just starting out as I become more adept at the platform I definitely plan on converting as many as I can in class to join me!
I would like to thank
for providing me content that helped me create this first post. It was kinda confusing but their posts made me stick with it and get it done!