 Happy New Year everybody! I am so excited! It's 2022 and with the new year I wanted to give you guys some New Year perspective and a little bit of motivation as you make it through 2022. So we've just kind of dipped into the new year and I know for some people a lot has already happened right? There are some people who've gotten engaged in, some people have had breakups, some people have gotten acceptances, some people have gotten denials. And with that being said I wanted to talk to specifically my pre-PA students. Really just anybody I guess you could say that is trying to pursue something that they feel called to but they just they're just having a little bit of doubt or fear or just any type of feeling of uncertainty as this new year has come because sometimes New Year's brings that right? When you're not where you feel you should be or where you want to be there's a sense of uncertainty that comes out but I want to just kind of share something with you guys as I've been talking to some of my pre-PA students. So if you don't know who I am my name is Zadana and I make PA related videos. So some of you all have been on this journey with me for the past four years which is crazy and in those four years you've seen me make it into PA school, come through PA school, graduate from PA school, pass my, well fail my boards, pass my boards and then get a job like essentially right out of PA school as a trauma PA. And so that's kind of where I'm at right now in my life. I'm living my life as a trauma PA okay. And I you know felt like okay I could just waltz right into this I guess career you could say this application process and just make it in and it would be a smooth and easy transition. But that's not always the case and that didn't happen to me and it doesn't happen to everyone. And so for those of you who are sitting here and you know your PA journey your journey to PA school has not quite been exactly what you wanted to be you know you are taking the scenic route you know you're getting more classes you're getting more more hours just more experience in general to get you to the point where you can apply to PA school this is really for you. Okay so I had a conversation with one of I wouldn't really call her my mentee but there's like a couple people that I spoke to and they kind of came with the same thing you know there was a young lady that I was talking to and she I was like hey you know like well so what's going on where are you at in your PA you know journey and she's like don't be mad at me. I decided to go the NP route and go into nursing school and I was like why would I be mad at you congratulations I'm super happy for you you know because the PA career and this path to PA school is not for everybody and I just want to say that again it's not for everyone okay and so although I would love everyone to come and join this amazing career that I call you know my home right now it's not necessarily for everyone and that's okay all right and so don't let anyone like dictate what you do in your life in terms of like the decisions that you're making because you're feeling like you want to let you're going to let somebody down or you're feeling like an embarrassment or whatever the case may be or that you're giving up that's not the case right and then on the flip side another student came to me and she said the same thing she didn't say don't be mad she was just like well you know right now I'm in a nursing program and my desire is still to go to PA school but I wanted to get some experience as a nurse and you know kind of bolster my experience there as well as boost my GPA through all of my nursing credits and then apply to PA school and I was like that's a great option you know because it is okay to take the scenic route to PA school um we all take different paths to different things there's different paths to my mom's house and I like to take a certain path and my husband likes to take another path and I'm always like why do you take this route like it's so much longer um and he's like no I think it's quicker but who's right we still get there we still get to my mom's house and you will still get to PA school um ultimately it may just take a little bit longer or you know somebody it might take a little less time but you're gonna get to the same destination and that's ultimately what this is all about okay becoming a PA if that is your desire if it's no longer your desire that is okay as well and so this this video is essentially about not allowing others opinions other people's thoughts on what you should do with your life dictate that okay now obviously there are some people in your life who you may need to speak to or talk to or go through discussions with like myself I had to talk to my husband about the various different things that I wanted to do the money that I wanted to spend to go to PA school um to uh to take classes to get into PA school uh the the year slash years that I would be essentially like bolstering my application to apply to PA school and we had to be on one accord so there are obviously your partners in in your life that you'll have to talk to but ultimately I'm talking about all this outside noise you know where you sit appearing you allow the fear of what people think or will think should they know that hey you know you're not you're not your traditional pre-PA student um you know you've been denied from PA school two cycles or three cycles or four cycles um and you still want to be a PA but now you're going to be a respiratory therapist first before going to PA school or a nurse before going to PA school and all of these other professions are not less than okay and I just want to make that clear as well like being a nurse is not less than being a PA okay especially if you want to now continue on and go to NP school and do essentially a lot of the same things that we as PA's do okay so I don't want you to sit up here and think like oh I'm giving up you know I am settling I'm taking the easy route I want to do this because um it's going to be easier to get into nursing school and in PA school than it is to PA school like that all those thoughts need to be like it's completely out of your head because that is not what this is about this is about you doing what is best for you you taking the path that is best to you you making decisions that are best for your life to get you to the point where you want to be and if that is PA school yay welcome you know welcome to the family if it's not PA school congratulations on the career path that you have chosen I wish you much success right and ultimately I think that is kind of the attitude that we need to have and you need to have especially going into this new year don't allow fear to dictate what you do in your life because fear doesn't own you right like there's no room in your story as the song says for fear don't allow it to tell you what you can and can't do instead you make the decisions on and make the plans for what will best fit your life and your lifestyle and where you want to go okay so just a little bit of motivation for you so thank you guys so much for watching again new videos every Sunday and Tuesday so last week Tuesday I did not do a school because I had to I picked up a shift to help out my job so I will be doing a school this Tuesday I'll announce where school it is tomorrow for you guys and then I'm going to put out another bit of my vlog this will be the last one essentially of my Dubai trip because I had a great time at Expo 2020 and so if you don't know what Expo 2020 is stay tuned for my newest vlog next week Sunday where I'll be talking about Expo 2020 and some of the places that I visited there in Dubai okay thank you guys so much for watching if you have any other questions for me leave them in the comment section below don't forget to subscribe and like this video don't forget to follow me on Instagram at DonikPA and on Instagram I get that C University where I help you while we help you not only get into but through PA school we do a lot of consultation sessions so go ahead and sign up for one there I think that's it happy new year as you guys happy new year happy new year happy new year I will talk to you guys next time bye