 What's up you guys and welcome back to my channel. Okay, so I'm in the car. I'm on my way to like one of my family trips. I'm really excited. I'm enjoying my summer, but I wanted to talk to you guys about like some reasons why or why not you should probably not get into PA school or try to get into PA school. I was speaking with an individual yesterday and they, you know, mentioned to me like, Hey, I actually follow you on this on Instagram on YouTube. And I realized, you know what, maybe I should take a pause and not go to PA school. And so I wanted to make this video because those are sometimes difficult decisions to make and, you know, hard choices to make and do, but sometimes they're necessary and you have to be able to be honest with yourself. So let's get into this video and talk about some of the reasons why you may not be ready for PA school. All right, let's have you guys. So like I was saying, I recently was talking to someone and that they informed me that, you know, they kind of just gotten frustrated with the application process of PA school. They had applied a couple times and then they're like, Look, I am done doing this. I just want to apply to a program and get in. So, you know, they decided to not apply to PA school anymore. And that kind of just made some sense to me because I haven't been frustrated to a point where I'm like, Oh, I don't want to apply anymore. I'm not going to apply anymore. However, I have been frustrated to the point where I'm like, You know what? This is this really for me. Like I literally had to like question, ask God like God is this for me. And so in doing that, I want to just kind of talk to you guys about a few things that I have realized that you have to possess. Like there's some characteristics that you have to possess to actually succeed in, you know, higher education specifically, but more so like these healthcare based programs like PA school, med school, nursing, like all of these graduate programs. Okay. So one of like the number one things that you have to do is be focused. Now, when I was in PA school, I literally had a laser focus on my goal. Whenever anything would happen, anything, any problems, any issues that I may have dealt with this life in general, you know, whatever it may be. I would be like, Okay, you know what? What is your goal? You are here for a reason. You're moving, you know, three hours or so away from your home base. Why? What is that goal? Because of that, you have to stay focused because there are going to be times and there are going to be moments when you're like, you know what? This is probably not for me. This is so difficult. Why am I doing this? Like why am I putting myself through this stress? And because of that, you know, you may want to give up. But at the end of the day, you're going to need to be focused and you're going to need to understand like, Hey, this is this is it. This is this is my goal. My goal is to become a PA. And if that is your goal, you have to be focused. If that is not your ultimate goal, if you cannot stay focused, then you know what this might not be for you. The next thing that you need to do is be meticulous in your time management skills. I was a mom, a wife and a student all at once. And you know, obviously this is not something that is novel. There have been people doing it before me. There's people doing it after me. However, at the end of the day, I had to realize, you know, how am I going to manage my time so that I can actually have like time with my family, time with my friends, time with my kids, time with God, time for myself. And all of those various different times are essential and important. You have to be able to understand like, Okay, you know what, I have to study. There were times where I was studying until like two o'clock in the morning, because as many of you know, I sell it, you know, like I observed the Sabbath. And so with respect to the Sabbath, I'm sitting up here and I'm not studying sunset Friday to sunset Saturday because I don't do anything that, you know, doesn't just edify me to bring me closer to God on the Sabbath. And so with that being said, I would feel like, you know what, like, I'm kind of missing out a little bit. There are going to be moments where it's like, All right, I want to study, but I couldn't. And so I had to put that time aside and be like, All right, I am going to not do that. Rather, I'm going to study after sunset on Saturday and manage my time that way go to bed at like two or three wake up in the morning again at like nine. Hit the books one more time and study based on that spend some time with the family with the kids go out, then come back and study you really have to be meticulous and how you share your time and how you spread your time. And then the last thing that I really think that you need to be doing and needs to be understanding is that discipline. P.A. School is hard. If you get into P.A. School, there's no guarantee that you're going to make it through P.A. School. And so ultimately it's about not only getting into the through P.A. School shameless plug for GTC. So go check us out on get that same university.com. But that's, you know, that is our goal and that's our desire with GTC you. But in general, that is what you want. You want to not only get into a program but make it through because you don't want to spend this money because it's a lot of money and you don't want to waste that money by not making it through. And so if you don't have the discipline that you need, you should absolutely, you should absolutely take like a self evaluation and a check and be like, All right, you know what, I absolutely don't have the discipline that I need to make it through P.A. School, even if I were to get in so let's let's not do that. This is not for me. And that's okay. It is okay in understanding that you know what P.A. School is not through or P.A. Program is not for you. I think it's important that that self assessment and make sure that at the end of the day, you're being honest with yourself. Okay. There's a little shade right now because I'm getting an umbrella but really and truly these are kind of some of the things that you really need to be looking at and paying attention to when you're trying to get into P.A. School. So stay focused, have that big time management skills and be disciplined. Okay. If you guys have any other questions for me, please leave them in the comments section below. 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