Ted Videos

I watched the TED video “How to Make Work Life Balance Work”. This video hit home with me because I have a son at home. One of the things that has always worried me in my career choice is that I will become consumed by my career and not spend enough time with my son at home. I loved the story the man told about the day he took off work early to pick his son up and went to the park and café. His son proclaimed that it was the best day of his life, ever. It made me realize that I need to make time to have days like that with my son and that even the smallest little things we do will make him happy.

The TED video “Why You Will Fail to Have a Great Career” was interesting as well. I have always been a bit scared of going after my goals of becoming a CPA because of the workload and time it takes to get that far. As time as gone by and I have gotten closer to that step in my career, I have been questioning my path more and more. I have learned more about the time a CPA puts in at work instead of being at home. This is one of those excuses talked about in the video: I value human relationships. I want to have time with my son and family outside of work. The part at the end of the video where the mom tells her son not to go after his dreams because she did not really struck me. I want to be able to tell my son to go after his dreams just like I did. My career will not suffer because I value human relationships; I will have a great career and stop making excuses.

I also watched the TED video “How to succeed? Get more sleep”. As a full time college student, worker, and mother, I do not get the amount of sleep I should. Sometimes I am lucky to get more than five hours of sleep a night. This video talks about how getting more sleep leads to better productivity at work. I want so badly to sleep more at night, but find myself up late doing homework almost every night; there just aren’t enough hours in the day! Once I get through