Prime of Your Life

I recently came across this interesting BBC article about the prime of life. Since many people I have spoken to have made significant strides in one domain or other - sports, education, career, sexual prowess - at different stages of life, I wondered when then is the prime of life.  This article seemed to address my perplexity quite directly.  Click here to read it.

Let's Discover Together

Who said that making decisions about the direction your life should take was easy? Or a static event? It turns out, and my life is testimony, that as you traverse the different facets in life, circumstances and experiences shape what you perceive and become. That is a good thing, right?  Because it means that you're moving with the tide and you are in an ever learning posture. Nelson Mandela said:  "There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living."  And so it is that I have morphed from someone who 10 years into her life wanted to fix all the wrongs in the world and wrote a piece about becoming a magistrate in order to wield the almighty gavel,  to someone who saw her father, still does, as her hero and wanted to have an MBA because he did, to someone so energized by the need for reform in certain aspects of her nation's social construct to allow for more opportunity for rural female entrepreneurs that she took up finance and banking,  to someone whose personal challenges  in the form of a terminal diagnosis willed into the medical field.  Seems like a lot of hats to wear but in retrospect, I wouldn't change a thing. Because what is it they say? The joy is in the journey not the destination. I have met with incredible people - in villages, cities, towns, and countries - villagers, activists, fellow panelists, ambassadors and the late prime minister of Israel, Shimon Perez. I have gotten married and had three beautiful boys. So in all, I have had some incredible experiences that have both exulted and humbled me and ultimately shaped me into who I am today.

Still, "After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb," Mandela said. (I am an avid fan.)

Now, in the prime of my life, emerging from a financial advisor experience, stepping into the healthcare domain, and obtaining a Registered Nurse license, I can sit back, take stock, and pull all the pieces together into one giant mosaic . 

Hence, The Executive Nurse is born. Who is she?  Frankly we'll have to discover together. But what is certain is that I am excited to embark on this journey of discovery, with you all.