Educational Goals

[Vle045]

Another thing or two I want to learn is to "learn the ropes of getting and keeping fit", similar to what a personal trainer does, train someone to keep fit with diet and exercise. I really need and want to go through something like that, and there was a course that had ACE credit, I might just go for it! Link: Online Self-Paced Certified Personal Trainer course ($19.99/month) worth 3 ACE credit (degreeforum.net)

Good luck with that!  I had a health scare in March that made me determined to eat a more healthy diet.  I have been working with a nutritionist and managed to lose about 30 lbs since then. I used to feel like it would be hard to lose the extra weight but it was really very easy.  It seems I just needed the right motivation - avoid surgery!  The bulk of my weight loss had been dietary changes.  I am still working on making exercise a habit.  That one is harder.  I have about 10 lbs to go to reach the weight my doctor recommends.

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My educational goals remain the same.

1. Keep plugging away at the MBA. I am halfway through. I want to see if I can graduate with a 4.0, so I am only taking one course at a time so that lack of time won’t impact my grades.

2. In between MBA courses, I might do Sophia business courses. Even though they don’t count toward my degree, it could be helpful to fill gaps since I wasn’t a business major in undergrad. For instance, it seems that my next Finance class assumes knowledge in economics already. Since I didn’t have those courses, I have been working through them. I have one done and 2/3 through the other. But, I have time because the next finance course isn’t until after a couple of other courses.

3. I might re-visit the ENEB courses. Every time I looked at the ENEB courses, I would look at the finance sections and just completely lose interest. I don’t want to learn anything about Spanish/Global Finance. It’s just not relevant or intersting to me. So I saw that other programs don’t include any of those sections. I asked if I can change my programs and they did! These are lower priority because I don’t plan to list them for professional or academic reasons. This would just be personal.

4. The other thing I hope to revisit in between MBA courses are the freebies. The Thunderbird courses and the Coursera certs that I started. Like ENEB, these are lower priority because I they don’t apply to my degree and are more for personal knowledge.

I have a lot of “wishes” for the year. I better get cracking!