Today I learned I gotta make the time. I was at work today completely overwhelmed. The customers just kept lining up, the phone just kept ringing, and at every break I got the pharmacist demanded me to be in production. It was a very taxing day. The day before I bought a journal to take notes on solutions of frequent problems I come across at work. But for the vast majority of time I was at work I didn’t have the time nor energy to take a moment and reflect on what I learned. But after being pulled in several different directions at work I realized that the moment I was in paralleled to my entire life. I’ve been casual in my learning recently. For the time being I’ve basically abandoned my old daily habit of reading/researching. I got overwhelmed with school and made myself believe that I was educating myself enough just by being in school. But I know that’s not totally true. The time and energy that I’m expending towards college are overall going towards the development of my career. Though I’m learning new information the overarching goal is that I get a job that pays higher than what my current job pays. So to say that I’m educating myself by going to college for the sake of educating myself would be a costly lie. At the end of the day I’m there to secure a peace of mind. I’m in school so that I can sustain myself for the long hual. When the dream I’ve been working on for years takes longer than I thought I want to make sure that I’m fortified to be as patient as I need to be. And that can be achieved by getting a job that I would work my entire life if I had to. So that time and energy I spend in school is booked as career development. Being overwhelmed by the demand of the customers by my job taught me that the market is going to always take as much out of you as it can, especially if your good at your job. And that’s never going to change. After thinking about this idea I got a sense of joy because I knew that this was another reason to commit more time to learning. One can be so effective at their job and their life simply by making a habit to more about. It was diificult for me to stay on track with this habit because I would consistently get overwhelmed between working and being in school. But it’s now obvious now more than ever that this is something that make all the difference. The people that take the time to learn about the solutions to their problems solve their problems. The people that don’t take the time learn about their problems will just naturally keep doing the same thing over and over again until they get frustrated and quit. That can be said for so many various different areas of life. Even though I’m studying for life is good to. Reviewing information is something that I need to keep doing for the rest of my life. But taking the time to gather new information daily is the thing that is going to take me to where I want to go. It makes me a channel. It broadens my opportunities. It will give me new dimensions to look at my most difficult problems. So I’m gonna read on a daily now and forever. I’m gonna reasearch solutions to my problems on a daily now. Because my real life is what I do every day. Not what I do every now and then.