Twist and Turns: My LBS experience

I remember a time I had to question intent on why a graduate with relevant work experience in a desired sector still desires to pursue an MBA degree. Other times, it’s been question of time: how do you devote sufficient time to work, life and family  and still be able to squeeze out hours in every week to ploughing the soil of the professional course considered grand by so many because it cuts across all fields and has so much relevance to most organizations, personal development and positioning for business opportunities.

The answers lies in the experience itself because all across human endeavour, wishes, desires and aspirations we are only as good as the decisions we make and live by. Everything makes sense when we can chase our dreams.

It’s been over 100 days since I started this experiment called MEMBA12 . Yes, it’s an experiment because cynicism overrides confidence when I applied and  for all it took from me, for all I had to let go to create the desired executive stance among the C executives, nothing has swayed me more than unending surprises. The twist to my preparation and how it turns out is out of my control but I can influence. Not everyone can bend the arc of time but we can optimize by doing the little things consistently until result shows. As I lay in my couch, I couldn’t but assume it is an ending phase no matter how difficult it’s to understand a project of problems or complete the Program. It’s not that i love comfort less but I hate redundancy even more and for all I care, it cost more to be redundant and irrelevant than to put in the work.

I know there are cycle of doubts and fear and recall , should I choose to see it through, all the benefits of running an MBA program  with a university with AACSB accreditation blows its horn. Having a tough time blazing through the program is a grace that can  be matched by desire to quit. It must be been uneasy for earlier guys that completed the program but with gut and thrust they came out victorious. It appears I now sound like a preacher without a pulpit or congregation. It’s a moment of truth for me. A moment to dare. A need to stay motivated and keep pressing on. A time to embrace the pains and look forward to the gains. A time to rise up once and believe in myself that yes, I can do this no matter what I face along the path. Challenges come not from lack of wit and intellectual muscle but for lack of time in this stance. I am sure no one in my set finds it any easier. Everyone has to out in the work to get things done.

It’s never easy for those ahead of us and time constraints, from combining work with study will always raise its head but someday , sometime when i recall how I didn’t let this journey end without completing the program, I will say this was my finest moment.