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Why the education system let me down
‘Starting again’ has been HARD, and my education didn’t help I ‘started’ again in my late 30’s, and I feel like the education system hasn’t helped me! New career, new country, entrepreneur instead of employee. (I discussed this a little in a previous post). “I started over” – It’s such a short and simple sentence that hides a volume of challenges, emotions, experience, change, frustrations, excitement, life lessons and character building. It was a gradual shift for me, from employee to entrepreneur, from perfect student to rebel, from accountant to creative, and from fixed to growth mindset. I feel that my education and what I was taught about how the…
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What My Fear-based Decision Taught Me This Week
I’m good at fear-based decisions! Without really realising it, most of my life decisions have been fear-based. (More about that elsewhere!) I’ve consciously tried to change this, I’ve moved out of my comfort zones in HUGE ways over the last few years, and continue to do so. This doesn’t mean that I don’t struggle though. I think it’s important to realise that entrepreneurial journeys are a rollercoaster. Sometimes entrepreneurship makes you feel self-employed, and sometimes you feel unemployed! I’ve managed to pay the bills on the basis of what I’ve been doing over the last year or so since we moved from South Africa to Montenegro (keeping in mind that…
