The Lesson I Never Expected..

My mum passed away 2 weeks right after I decided to become a coach. And, you know, I learned 2 things from that. Number one, life can either happen for you or it can happen to you. And so I had to make a decision. Is this happening for me or to me? To whether give up on my dreams, to get out of optometry and pursue what I really love, or to play it safe for the rest of my life. So that was the first thing. But the second thing I learned, I was an optometrist for 10 years. And I know some of you guys are watching right now. You've been in whether corporate or management or leadership or HR, or maybe you're sales repping. You've been in it for 20, 30, 40 years. And there's a part of you knowing that that's not the right Right path for you, but there has to be more. If I had to rewind the clock, I wouldn't have waited for life to give me a lesson like that. I would have proactively taken up on the choice to do something that I love sooner because life is really, really short. And the only reason why I stayed in there for so long in optometry was to make my parents proud without realizing that the only thing that's going to make them happy is if they see me happy. If you're in a job right now that you're not fulfilled in, my suggestion to you is don't wait because you're always going to look back and say to yourself that you should have done it sooner.