If I can make it, so can you
If I can make it, so can you, It only happened on D day Enterprise Entrepreneur Award, I was not even in the contestant list.
I was SEEKING VALIDATION from those who didn’t believe in me…Yet
I was not even on the participant list. I asked someone there, she replied, the others are prepared a while ago. So I said I’ll do a presentation anyway.
I sign up to get the slot, to share a few motivational words.
Since I’m unprepared. OF COURSE, I PANICKED, was So uncomfortable, but I had to lead by example, right?
Went up stage an said
“I have no script: therefore I’ll narrate a motivational story and how I had a flourishing career in the Digital Advertising, Designing field, how difficult it is to make a UTURN from a skilled, respected, and experienced designer to be a Life and Career Coach.
How my dear ones kept reminding me not to be unsafe, that’s because they… love me and… they care!
Now that I’m holding this award I believe they will understand as they just don’t remember the struggles to be in any field is the same.
I spoke about the mindset of:
Yeah, ok COVID did this and that, but what can I do, What can YOU do instead of saying what happened to me, to us…
Of course, then the challenging questions from the Jury members,
One of them was what I would do as Coach if I found a young person with potential.
In brief I quoted: ‘If you give a man a fish, he eats for one day.. But if you teach him how to fish.’
I sat down on the Stage floor and replied: I hit rock bottom too, I know the feeling because I have been there too and without a coach maybe I would have been somewhere else right now. OF COURSE, of course, I would help him/her.