Get up, Dress up, Show up!

Ever feel like you take 3 steps forward and 2 steps backwards, or maybe, 2 steps forward and 3 steps backwards. Apparently if we use this analogy it is a positive sign that we are still moving forward.

I meet the most amazing people in my profession (very few aren’t amazing), and they all have a different story to tell which I love hearing. I chose going into recruitment because I didn’t get a job at Flight Centre when I applied. I wanted to work with people and I felt the Travel or Recruitment Industry would give me a platform to meet new people daily and give me a variety in the work I’d be doing. I was very upset when I didn’t get the Flight Centre job but that lead me onto getting employed at the 2^nd largest Financial Recruitment Company in the UK.

Why am I telling you this? I had many different ideas growing up about what I wanted to become, a wildlife photographer, a graphic designer, a hair dresser, a housewife and a social worker. There were probably a few others, but I can’t remember them now. What they did have in common was they would all allow me to use my creative or people giftings.

I ended up finishing school with no financial backup to get a tertiary education, so I went on my own way and fell into recruitment. There was a time in my life that I felt like I was only taking steps backwards and not moving forward at all. At 23 years old I was a half-day nanny and no closer to the career I dreamed for myself.

When I look back at the last 20 years of my life I am so blessed to have experienced the journey I’ve been on. I haven’t gone backwards, if anything, I have accomplished more than I could have ever imagined for myself.

A few tips for fulfilling your dreams:

1.            Surround yourself with the successful people who are humble and willing to support and guide you.

2.            Keep looking forward no matter how many times you feel like you’ve digressed, tomorrow is always a new day. Commit to living your new day slightly better than your last.

3.            Remember s##t happens so get up, dress up and show up (EVERYDAY)!