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The following is a guest post by Elizabeth Ann Stewart founder of the Brain and Body Wellness Center.
I grew up with an extremely unreal expectation of what it would take to be successful.
As I found out, while working 7 days a week to put myself through college, being successful is far more challenging than the world will have you believe. I could take this story down that path and rehash the hardship of taking care of a deathly ill mother and younger brother, not having enough money left over after bills at the end of a full work week to put groceries in my fridge, and being alone to do all this. But we all have stories like that. What I didn’t understand when I was younger is what separated the Lady GaGas and the Bill Gates of the world from everyone else is that they didn’t let that hardship define them. They also didn’t wait around for anyone to feel sorry for what they had been through and they trusted themselves.
So instead the theme that I find myself coming back to now is determination. I now run a heath company called the Brain and Body Wellness Center. Our clinic regulates brain chemistry for children and adults who have ADHD and depression and boomers and seniors who have lost their memory (Alzheimer’s, dementia). This work is extremely rewarding but it is extremely challenging.
What gets me through the day (and keeps me coming back every day!) is the fact that I found something that was important enough to me to give my all to. Don’t get me wrong, I still have dreams of singing love songs with a guitar in front of thousands of people, but when it comes down to it, having a calling trumped my other dreams. I am passionate about a lot of things, but committed to one, and that is where my dream of success and reality met each other.