Getting through my MBA was the toughest thing I have ever done in my life, particularly due to my psychiatric illness at the time. During this time I sought high and low for a practical, easy to understand, non-wishy-wahsy, and logical self-help book that would at the very least give me some guidance on how to deal with the stress I was under. I hated almost everything I found. I felt so trapped, I started looking at US Army POW survival manuals for clues on dealing with stress and fear.

Since then I've been hoping to write something or develop a website that would help another person going through a tough time (of any sorts) get through it successfully. Not sure how I would monetize it, but it would be cool if I could come up with a way to bring some sense to the self-help market.

Since I don't have training in counseling or psychology I even thought about going for the one year Master of Positive Psychology program at UPenn, but of course dropped the idea as it would add to my debt.

Anyway, that's the only idea I have had and only topic I really have passion for at the moment.

Maybe if I did some exploratory research on different things I could come up with some more areas I'd be interested in.

But I need to move fast as I'm terrified of defaulting on my bills when the year is out.