A former nurse left healthcare to sell promotional products because she was unhappy. The speaker argues you should take time to reflect on what you actually want instead of letting others design your life for you.
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So if you're looking at shifting something majorly in your life like this, look at what you like doing. I have a business colleague that she was a nurse and she went in to sell— I call them tchotchkes, um, you know, things like, um, the, the pens with the company name on it, all the promotional stuff. That's it. That's it. So she went from nursing to the promotional stuff because for her, she just wasn't happy as a nurse. She wanted to be happy. And I can't, I can't emphasize for all of our listeners, if you're not happy, really take the time to sit down and figure it out. You know, it's very interesting to me that people and that are leaders in our world and the icons in their own industries, they take time off. They know where they're going, and they became who they are because they, they have a passion for that, and they have it mapped out. Exactly, exactly. But they— the reason it's mapped out is they took the time to do that. No, there's a saying, um, I believe it's Jim Rohn's. I might be mistaken. That if you don't design your own life, someone will design it for you, and what they have planned for you is not a lot.