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Just signed up with Herzing University. They do have a great program. - Excited

Posted: May 18, 2010

If the coding doesnt work out for me, I will go on to RHIT or other fields within HIM.

Im really excited!

Hoping my Pell Grant comes through!

I'm so happy for you! - Andrews Student

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It sounds like you have a great plan. Good luck and let us know how it is going for you. I just signed up with Andrews, and I'm also really excited about all that I'm about to learn. Doesn't it feel great when you finally make a choice as to what to do and where to go to school? I know it was huge relief for me. Enjoy your studies! :)

Thankyou! Please keep us posted on how YOU are doing as well! - Best of Luck to you!~

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:-)

On coding working out for you . . . - Redpen

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Congratulations! I'll keep my fingers crossed for that Pell.

Here is some advice. It is the same advice I have given to people at work who hesitate to take certification exams or to go back to school, or to start coding ambulatory surgeries or inpatient, or learn Excel, or to apply for a better job. You didn't ask for any advice, but the beauty of online forums is that people like me can meddle all we want.

In my experience, the way we think about ourselves affects the degree to which we are successful. Innate ability, obviously, plays a part, but if you are already working as an MT, then you very likely have the ability.

What you heard and continue to hear from everyone in your life shapes what you believe about yourself. We see ourselves through the eyes of others. We even try to please them by succeeding or failing as they expect.

Right now, the innards of your brain might not have the expectation that coding will be too difficult for you, but you're very close. You have voiced the possibility that coding won't work out and you even have a fall-back plan for a lesser job.

As long as you believe that this fall-back choice is as good, you'll keep seeing it as a very comfortable safety net, so you will have no motive to avoid falling.

As long as you believe that it is possible for coding not to work out, you will see every difficulty, every setback, and every annoyance as evidence that . . . it's not working out. Very soon, you will WANT to fall.

No matter what school you attend, my advice would be the same. Figure out why you think coding might not work out and eliminate whatever the reason is. Take those thoughts and set them free to find a new home. You don't have room for them anymore. Give them a couple bucks and drop them off at the bus station. There are lots of people there who would love to have them.

You might be so attached to them that you can't bear that thought. If that is the case, write them out on a sheet of paper and mail it to me at Andrews School. We have a nice place for them there--they'll be very happy.

Do not allow failure to be an option. In your mind, do not visualize a safety net or a fall-back plan. Just refuse to acknowledge any option other than success in coding.

If you want to continue on for an RHIT after you learn coding, that's fine. Nothing wrong with that. Right now, though, you need to succeed in coding. There is absolutely NO reason you cannot do that.

If you had decided to try being a rocket scientist, I'd allow that maybe it might be a bit much. But, coding is not rocket science.

Every day you need to visualize yourself succeeding in coding, not failing. Success. SUCCESS! THERE IS NO SAFETY NET!

People -- even normal people -- learn to code every day. So can you.

Do not allow failure to be an option.

Redpen, that was the most awesome post! Thankyou - ME

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I would really like to private email you, if I may have your permission to do so.

Congratulations! - JM

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That IS very exciting! Good luck and happy studies to you.

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