Stick With It… It’s Almost Always Worth It

When I think about it, all of the most important and rewarding things in my life were acquired through my ability to commit.

I love my job. I’m appreciated and paid well. But it didn’t come without the time that I put into being a part of “the workforce” with employers who were, to say the least, less than satisfying. And those jobs didn’t come without a college education, which was definitely a fun time, but also a daunting and exhausting task that just so happened to take four years out of my life. And that college education didn’t come without all of the hard work and extra curricular activities I crammed into my high school career that earned me a full scholarship.

I’m very happily married. My husband is a wonderful man and our life together is exactly what I had pictured for myself. That didn’t happen overnight, though. It took years. We had to see each other through the good and the bad and make the decision (over and over again) to continue to love each other unconditionally. We had to compromise and work together. Sometimes, we had to sacrifice. But the happiness that is the result of that commitment to each other is one that I cannot express in words. To date, my marriage is the greatest accomplishment of my life.

I’m 5 months pregnant with my first child. Thus far, the experience has been trying- physically and emotionally. While it is definitely beautiful and amazing, I’d be lying if I said there wasn’t a tremendous amount of worry and discomfort also associated with it, and that it was an easy thing to be going through. Right now, all that I have to keep me committed to eating insanely healthy and staying away from the bliss that only a beer after work can bring is the thought of holding that baby in my arms and the awe that comes over me when I think about how we created her. As hard as it can be sometimes to hang in there (especially when I see “pre-pregnant” pictures of myself!), I know the moment I see her face it will all be worth it.

I think about these things whenever we lose a client- especially those who have already put in many months of time and money. It’s a difficult thing to watch. It’s always easier to give up, because anything that takes time and patience is never easy. But those clients that do keep the faith and stick it out until the end definitely don’t regret it. I know I haven’t.