Its never too late to begin or start over

The purpose of this post is to organize my thoughts to clearly impart to my clients that they should give themselves a clean slate and begin the life they want.

It appears daunting. Especially if your life got screwed up or you screwed it up.  All you can see is that everyone else is doing better than you. 

I also wanted to add about the inner voice and getting past the lies we tell ourselves. We all have that voice saying, you’re can’t and you’re stupid and you are going to use the wrong your in a sentence.  This is meant to protect us.  If that voice tells us we are not good enough, we are less likely to try something risky. 

When I turned 18, my voice told me you just want a simple life.  Work as a manager at a restaurant and get by.  Which is not a bad profession or life. Actually working at a restaurant squashed that thought. Because it was not what I really wanted. I just had many self-defeating thoughts. Taking a chance, I went to college.  I always thought I’d like to be a teacher. But I had another nagging thought that told me I was too shy to be a teacher.

It was not until I graduated college that I challenged that thought. I got old enough that I realized I did not have to change overnight, but to take small challenges every day until I succeeded.

So I went back to school while my friends graduated.  I was in school with younger students that were creating better resumes than mine.  

It took several more years of substitute teaching, before I got a full time job. I was happier for working on what I wanted than to staying safe.  And once I had a teaching job, I forgot the slow start I got. Things were not easy, but I felt I was ontrack. And that was al that mattered.