FLASHBACK

As I was reading my finance book late last night after I had procrastinated long enough to make myself focus, I had a flashback to Winter semester 2010. Yep, just like in the movies, when you see yourself in black and white fuzzy images. Ok, not really, but last winter feels like forever ago. I was still living in the dorms, was the Relief Society President, and honestly had no social life. I might have been seasonally depressed, but my grades were AWESOME. Haha

So I've set the stage, but haven't told the story. I was sitting at the kitchen table trying to create the balance sheet and journal entries for my Accounting 200 class. This class had been one of my worst fears going into it, because I have absolutely no experience with any money management skills. So I sat down to do this assignment after much procrastination because I had literally been fighting my inner demons to just sit down at the table with a pencil in hand.

After reading the instructions carefully and trying to make sense of what transactions go on which ledger and what accounts to debit and credit, I realized to my joy that it actually made sense. And it got even better... it was actually FUN? No, I'm supposed to hate accounting, its not supposed to make sense! But it was like trying to solve a big puzzle, like sudoku but only with numbers that actually mattered.

In that moment, I decided to like accounting. And from that day on, my grades only got better and better. In fact, I ended up getting a perfect score on the final, and was personally invited to apply to the accounting program by my professor. That's unheard of since the program at my school is #2 in the nation!

Flash forward to today, where I'm hating finance because it doesn't make any sense. What was the onset to this flash back to accounting, you ask? It was the review of accounting in the finance chapter. I realized that finance and accounting are two sides of the same coin... LITERALLY. Accounting looks backward and finance looks forward in a business. If I could succeed in accounting, I can certainly like finance if I simply decide to LIKE IT.

So, maybe this is a good lesson for life. Especially if I've had to experience the same thing twice in order to fully get the message. When you decide to like something, you'll succeed in it. So decide you like your diet. Decide you like going to the gym regularly (Chantel needs to work on this one).

Decide you like it. In the end, you just might end up loving it.
(No reference to McDonalds intended. Ew. Now I really want to go to the gym...)