Well, to be really honest this journey did kick into gear
about 90 days ago when we started prepping for our assignment. Boarding a plane
to Istanbul is just the final stage of this journey where everything will start
to come together.
But first let me rewind to a year ago when it all really
started. I was sitting in a hotel room in London with a few hours left for the
CSC application submission to close. This is something I’d been wanted to do
year after year but never got around to and like every past year I said to
myself, “next year”. I will plan ahead and think about all the right answers.
But what constitutes the right answers in a situation
like this; the truth is there are no right answers. There’s only passion and
commitment. If you really do want to be in the CSC, you do need to feel
strongly about the cause, you do need to be committed to stick with it and most
important you need to believe in yourself. How else are you going to make a
difference out there if you don’t believe in yourself to start with?
So, this journey really began a year ago with me taking a
step back and introspecting on me as a person.
- Was I the type of person who could be picked up and dropped in any part of the world (with no choice of location)?
- And that being said did I have the ability to work with people from different countries and backgrounds as one team with a common goal?
- Do I have enough experience and skills to make an economic development plan?
- Do I believe strongly and am passionate about communities and seeing improvement in them?
Thinking about my past, my experience and me as an
individual, I concluded that I did.
I filled in an application that day focusing on the
person I was. And, I believe I was selected
for that very reason. And, as I sit at this airport waiting to board that plane to
Istanbul, I look forward to seeing how this journey materializes.
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