REFLECTIONS ON LIFE AND WHAT IT MEANS TO LIVE FULLY…

Hi there, my friend!

Here I am in November 2023 thinking about my life again. The really funny thing is that in exactly November 2013 I also thought about my life and making changes! This may sound surreal but I do think that every 10 years God wants me to stop and take a hard look at my life.

I have been an instructional designer for five years now: I have studied at University, I have changed companies, and I have learned how to build awesome courses. In addition, I also had to look inside to see what kind of person I am because of course when you work as an employee, you also learn interpersonal skills. You learn negotiation and persuasion, you learn when to let go and when to push, you learn what emotional intelligence is, you learn how to build working relationships, and believe me: it’s not easy.

When I think about my life professionally, I would call myself a struggler (if there is such a word). I’ve always tried to fit in, even dared to belong to some companies. I learned how people are, what they expect of me, and how competent and professional I am. The more I think about it, the more I realize that working as an instructional designer actually shaped me as a competent, strong, driven specialist who wants to do better. But this post today is not about that.

Today I feel like like writing about my wish to go back to tutoring. I’m realizing that I long for meaningful interactions with human beings. Since I work on the computer from Monday to Friday, I see how the lack of human communication makes me gloomier, more irritable, less optimistic, and less alive! I therefore decided to go back to English teaching. I should say go back to English and French teaching because I think I’m able to also help you improve your French if you want to!

The year 2023 has been a hard one. We are in month 11 and it feels as if this year has had 20 months. But since every crisis is, in fact, an opportunity in disguise, I’m going to take this wish to take my English and French tutoring to another level. I’m going to create online courses, I’m going to do my best to help people improve their conversation levels and more importantly, I’m going to enjoy it!

I just read somewhere that your life is the way you are, not the way you want and so I’m striving again – remember I’m a struggler – this time I’m striving to just be happy and go with the flow and enjoy working on the weekends even though I have a full-time job! Don’t get me wrong: I might think of hiring a cleaning lady but for now, my husband and my boys will help clean our house, oh yes 🙂

I’m grateful to life for all the crises because every crisis is in fact a nudge from God to change.
Thanks for reading and see you in my next blog post!

PS I wrote this post using speech to text AI, which took me 6,5 minutes.