Today I had my audiologist appointment and I had some really mixed emotions about it. On one hand I was looking forward to finally addressing this and on the other, sad about finally accepting hearing loss. My hearing loss revealed no surprises: I have hearing loss. I was sad about this but my sadness quickly faded when I got to experience the latest and greatest hearing aid powered by my smartphone. It was like magic. I could hear without straining or lip reading. It was like magic. Apparently the hearing aids use my iPhone’s processing capabilities and AI to constantly adjust the amplification of the hearing aids. I was happily astounded. My brain was so used to hearing poorly that the amplified and filtered sound of the hearing aids sounded almost unnatural. I had to almost laugh.
I’ve also been doing a lot of heavy thinking as of late about my future. I’m excited about starting at the University of Delaware in the fall for masters degree in social work. My ultimate goal is to become a therapist by way of becoming a licensed clinical social worker. I know that I work best as a self starter. I do best when I am accountable to myself so I want to go into private practice and run my own business.
Here I what I know about myself. I know that I struggle to work for managers and supervisors that make decisions that I deem irrational and stupid. I’m working on this through therapy but I’ll only be able to handle so much of it. Therefore, I feel destined to be entrepreneurial. I’ve tried it three times prior and failed because I planned poorly and had no real strategy or concept. This time I’m going about it completely differently.
For starters I’m asking a lot more questions and making less assumptions. I’m taking advantage of as many resources as I can to learn. I’ve learned to embrace AI and I’ve come up with a much more marketable business name and logo as a result. I have a good mockup of a website to implement.
Since I am planning to start a therapy practice, I am learning how I can use resources like Grow Therapy, Rula Health, Tava, and more to bring in money while I organically grow. The next thing I need to look into is health insurance for the single member LLC. My thoughts aren’t racing and seem to be fairly well organized.
I just need to be able to survive the challenges that the next two and a half years are going to bring. I’m going to be very busy and working very hard. I’ll have to dig deep in to energy reserves but I’ll keep the ultimate goal in my mind.