"i am happy.. i will be happy..happiness is here."

i don't hear the pastor, barely i go to church... but YES, this is the way, be happy, stay happy, spread hapiness.

I love the mantra and am glad for your success in changing your attitude (so very hard to do in this field!), just have to point out that if prayers were answered, we wouldn't have any patients to begin with.

Take care of yourself, so you can then take the best care of your patients as possible. Try to accept yourself and your limits and know you did your best at the end of the shift.

Good for you!!! When I started college at 36 for the first time, I attended a discussion that was held on thoughts and controlling your life. In the year I have learned to say what I want, as if I already have it. They referred to this as the law of attraction. I am telling you, It has, or I have changed my whole life! Not to say I dont have days that I feel pitiful, but my gosh the change in my attitude is complimented by everyone that has know me for a while. I grew up in a conservative, christian family. I now have my own beliefs, but I respect all faiths. I do not think that the bible is THE truth, I do not believe anyone knows the truth about what this life experience really is. I do think that the possibility of a god does exist. I guess that is why it is "faith",believing in a power that yet, we have not proved. That makes life even more amazing, looking for the answers and the evidence!! Who knows what we really are-I mean we may be under a microscope or hey-maybe we are all molecules in a being that we can have no knowledge of. Just like our molecules work, digest, ingest, divide, protect, and die for us-but they just know their little world-probably no knowledge that they are inside a human. I mean, I know I sound nutty, but do ever sit back and think about all the universe and maybe the planets are the cells and we are like the organelles keeping something that we cannot even comprehend-maybe a "god", alive and we live and die for it?! Okay I am way off subject-I apologize. Sometimes I get so excited about what we are yet to discover in this wonderous world. Song sung by Gwen Stefani sums it up: To step out of the "box" and imagine what we might be it is fantastic to be alive!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Once in a while I sit back
And think about the planet
Most of the time I trip on it
To kick back and think about
How massive it all is
And how many others are on it

I often think about the world
In which I live today, of
animals and plants
And nature's gift set on display
But the most amazing thing
That I've seen in my time
Are all the different people
And all their different minds
And different ways
It would take a lifetime to explain
Not one's exactly the same

hi im a newbie i was reading ur tread and was amazed becouse thew same things has been happening to me but i havent gotten into a nurse program yet i have one obsticle thats holding me back and thats my ged unfortuntily i havent gotten it yet something always comes up! anyway i to listen to joel osteen and his words are powerfull and at times it feels as if talking directly to me as if he knew i was having an issuse that i need to be answered again congrATS

I don't think God had anything to do with it. Depend on yourself, and from there derive strength.