You are an expert. Here’s why

Earlier this year, I decided to live off my hard earned savings-  slow down, meet great people, take some time off to restrategize- relax, be flexible, travel and drop all the things I was holding onto to actually take the risk of trying out the ideas in my head.

After I realized my savings were reducing (like duh!) I still didn’t want the rigidity of a full time job so I decided to take part time tutoring as a source of extra income. I ended up tutoring a lot of Chinese people who were learning English as a second language as well as college students and high school kids. It turned out to be a great experience.

Along the line I decided to try my hands out at making similar content so I put out my course (https://www.udemy.com/become-excellent-at-analytical-writing/ ) and now my students are in the hundreds. While I still have a lot of work to do in getting the course out there, it was so encouraging to see the numbers increase and see that truly what I thought would be useful to others was indeed useful.

So what do I know about you that you don’t know? It is that your life experiences have made you an expert at something and you probably don’t even realize it.

So many times we are waiting for something to happen before we can live life. We are waiting to be more educated, be more experienced (whatever that means), more confident, more beautiful, etc.

Truly, when it comes to it, we are probably just afraid that we are not really enough. We are afraid of failure&rejection. We think that maybe if we can find more titles to mask our insecurity then we will be more confident to proceed in the direction of our dreams.

What you don’t realize is that you already have something that people want to know. You are probably taking yourself for granted thinking you have no value to add.

I don’t mean this post to motivate you. I mean it to be factual. You are an expert at something that other people don’t know and you are hiding it because you think everyone knows it already, or that you need even more experience.

What have you picked from your life’s experiences? Struggles? Lessons? Relationships? Share your gift today. There is always time to refine it. You cannot get experience without putting yourself out there and experiencing all life has to offer anyways.

The secret of contentment

I posted this once but it disappeared:P

Today I and my friend Nadege went on an interviewing spree. We played this game where she pointed at anyone and I had to talk to them.

We first of all met Alheli, then we met Zee and Grace and then my friend Nadege decided to try her hands at interviewing someone and so we met Jason and she asked him her own random questions. It was a lot of fun and Nadege said the interviews were her favourite part of today so thank you guys.

Alheli was the first person we talked to.

Alheli moved to Calgary recently from London. In her own words ‘ I love everything’. It is cool to meet somebody that is happy for no reason, just happy with life. It helps you remember that being alive is good enough reason to be happy. She also seemed to know herself very well and to have put some thought into her life and what she wants it to be about.

These are the words I thought described her- content, hopeful, beautiful and honest.

 

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