{"id":208,"date":"2016-11-08T17:37:51","date_gmt":"2016-11-08T17:37:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lmja.com\/blog\/?p=208"},"modified":"2016-11-08T17:37:51","modified_gmt":"2016-11-08T17:37:51","slug":"doing-what-matters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.lmja.com\/blog\/doing-what-matters\/","title":{"rendered":"Doing What Matters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lmja.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/photodune-12946648-make-time-for-what-matters-chalkboard-with-hand-drawn-text-xs.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" size-medium wp-image-205 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lmja.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/photodune-12946648-make-time-for-what-matters-chalkboard-with-hand-drawn-text-xs-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"Make Time for What Matters - Chalkboard with Hand Drawn Text.\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.lmja.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/photodune-12946648-make-time-for-what-matters-chalkboard-with-hand-drawn-text-xs-300x169.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.lmja.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/photodune-12946648-make-time-for-what-matters-chalkboard-with-hand-drawn-text-xs.jpg 596w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Ever since childhood I remember my mom saying:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em> \u201cGet a good education. That is something that no one can take away from\u00a0you.\u201d\u00a0 <\/em><\/p>\n<p>In my parent\u2019s house, college was mandatory.\u00a0There were 5 children in the house, and all of us have some level of post high school learning \u2013 whether it be a college degree or specific military training.\u00a0As a matter of fact, my youngest sibling excelled at maintaining the Army\u2019s Black Hawk and served in Desert Storm.\u00a0We are all so very proud of him.<\/p>\n<p>When I received my MBA, of course my family was proud of me, but actually it felt quite normal.\u00a0After all, that\u2019s what we were supposed to do! I went on to be adjunct faculty and career counselor. Eventually, I started my own business \u2013 and now it\u2019s going on 25 years!<\/p>\n<p>It seems appropriate then, that my business is about educating and training people on how to become an effective leader. We help our clients find \u201cWhat Matters to Them\u201d and at the same time, I\u2019m \u201cDoing What Matters\u201d to me.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, as a mentor for high school high achievers, I have seen so many extremely smart and ambitious youth who want to go to college. The problem is that there are very limited resources to take advantage of \u2013 short of their parents having to go into deep debt. It was different when I went to college. Then, there was an abundance of FREE college money. Indeed, I went to the University of Maryland \u2013 tuition-free! It appears that those days are long gone. So many kids are side-lined from fulfilling their dreams, realizing their purpose, for lack of money.<\/p>\n<p>And so, I have now entered into my Next Life \u2013 Director of <strong>Let\u2019s Go!<\/strong> In short, I started <strong>Let\u2019s Go!<\/strong> as a non-profit in order to provide resources for ambitious and high achieving\u00a0youth who just don\u2019t have the means to take advantage of post-high school learning as I did. <strong>Let\u2019s Go!<\/strong> \u2013 a highly competitive program \u2013 will not only provide financial resources for these youth, but it will also provide leadership and life skills.\u00a0 I\u2019ve come full-circle. Once again \u2013 Doing What Matters.\u00a0 <strong>What matters to YOU?<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ever since childhood I remember my mom saying: \u201cGet a good education. That is something that no one can take away from\u00a0you.\u201d\u00a0 In my parent\u2019s house, college was mandatory.\u00a0There were 5 children in the house, and all of us have some level of post high school learning \u2013 whether it be a college degree or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,2,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lmja.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lmja.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lmja.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lmja.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lmja.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.lmja.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":209,"href":"http:\/\/www.lmja.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208\/revisions\/209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lmja.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lmja.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lmja.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}