This is our safety belt! Hold on to our Faith

 

That is as much as I can do these days if I have any hope that I’ll be able to successfully overcome those waves of life!

There is so much for me and everyone else to deal with. Not just technology but so much more.

A rapidly changing landscape when navigating and negotiating the supermarket, the bank branch, the good old sidewalk, and I could go on.

So let me hold on to my Faith!
It is all I have now!

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If I Believe

If I believe in me, then others will believe too and in turn, if I believe in others then soon the world will start believing.  This has been my motto for all of my life and it continues to work for me.

 

When I was a kid, I believed that if I worked hard enough I could achieve my objectives at school and it worked.  When I was a teen I believed that if I pushed myself hard enough I could accomplish my goals to obtain a master's degree in Business administration and you know what?  I was one of the first blind persons in Canada to graduate with a master's degree in business administration from McGill University.

 

When I graduated, I believed that if I tried hard enough, I could become a member of any blue chip Canadian company and you know what?  I did it in grand style.  I worked for companies like the Bank of Montreal, IBM Canada, and the Royal Bank of Canada. Through good times and bad times, I kept on believing in myself and when I was downsized in the 90s, I still kept on believing in me.

 

I have been in business for myself for the past 15 years and for the most part it has been a continuing struggle to keep believing in me but at the end of the day belief is what keeps me going.  As a professional student at heart, I have managed to use belief to become one of the first blind persons in the world to obtain certifications in Microsoft Systems Engineering and Novelle Network Administration and I will keep on using belief to enrich my academic as well as my professional life.  I am also going to use belief to convince others to believe in themselves.  As I see it, belief is the only way for us to keep on believing.  If I continue to believe in me, then my task to help the kids of the future believe in themselves will only become easier.

 

 I'm Donna J. Jodhan your friendly accessibility advocate wishing you a terrific day and urging you to go out there and share my blogs with the rest of the world.  I invite you to contact me anytime at donnajodhan@sterlingcreations.ca.

Half Empty or Half Full

This is one of the questions that I constantly continue to ask myself and I guess that if I am a positive person as I usually am, I would say that the glass is half full.  However, there are many other blind persons who would take the opposite opinion.

 

For me, the glass is half full because despite my challenges I still somehow manage to come out on top and I have so many things to be thankful for.  For my parents, family, and friends; plus my undying ability to dream, create, and try.  Most of all, my deep and unshakeable faith in God.  For others, the glass is half empty because there is so much that they have to deal with; a disability, no family close by, and not too many friends.  In addition, many blind persons also have to deal with secondary and even tertiary challenges. 

 

More and more blind persons are having to deal with such things as loss of hearing, physical disabilities, plus so much more.  No wonder they find it difficult to see the glass as half full.  We all need to work together to change this and I am asking you to help spread the word.

 

I'm Donna J. Jodhan your friendly accessibility advocate wishing you a terrific day and asking you to go out there and help spread the word that blind persons often have to face additional challenges in addition to their loss of sight.  Visit www.nfb.org or www.acb.org to learn more.