Thriving-In-Transition Thursday!!

Greetings Global Villagers:

It's another Thriving-in-Transition Thursday!!

As we know, the discussion for the week has been about making decisions.  I am in a major transition. I am at the last leg of my doctoral journey; I'm writing my dissertation!!

This is a joyful and exciting, yet anxious season of my life. It's joyful and exciting because in 2006 I set a goal to obtain my doctoral degree. Now in 2011, I have almost obtained my goal. I am fighting the temptation to become anxious because I have an external time crunch. I was pacing myself to finish my education by a certain date. However, as we all have experienced, circumstances have set the date for me.

In order for me to thrive in transition, I had to make some major decisions.  One of those decisions is concerning this blog. The dilemma was: Do I stop blogging to better manage the activities within my time or do I recreate the way I write my blog? After an encouraging conversation with a powerful woman by the name of Monica Wildes, she suggested for me to seek out Guest Contributors to help me maintain my blog while I complete my doctoral education. I took her suggestion and I am making some decisions on how the blog will be published for the next few months. I truly appreciate her. Thanks Monica!!!!!

On that note, we have been discussing Marcia Perkins-Reed's perspective of being  a Coper.  Another Coper characteristic is to have no sense of purpose, which means those of us who are copers have "no guiding principles to steer us through the life" (p. 37).

Needless to say that Ms. Latisha Helps blog has a purpose. Its title, Why we? ignites us to ponder. However, I answer the question by stating, "Because we were all created with greatness!!" During this season, I need others to help me fulfill my greatness by finishing my doctoral degree.

So, my purpose is to thrive during this transition while I write my dissertation by partnering with like-minded people who are also fulfilling their greatness!!