Never too old...
Mar 10, 2024
I realized that in the last 4 to 5 years that I have had a great passion to help people and to help people in ways that I felt were special to me. And I can confidently say that I was not trained on how to help people, but more so, I have always wanted to help people, I just never knew how and what would compel me to make it into a career.
In my previous corporate job, I realized that not everyone has the same kind of passion as me. And as much as I'm passionate about helping people financially and helping them get through their goals and helping them reach their financial goals, I can't expect that everyone feels the same way. I used this passion that I discovered to help create some changes in my life.
With a lot of self-reflection, and thoughts about what I wanted really in life, I really had to stop and look at what were my priorities in the day? I had to think What is my priority this week, or this month, or in life? I really had to take a step back and really analyze what was important to me now.
In fact, I started to self-doubt myself, and asked, “Am I even going in the right direction?”
I struggled with an abundance of thoughts that I found sometimes just stopped me in my tracks of just moving forward. The worst part for me was I internalize a lot of stuff, thinking that I was the only one who is struggling. And that I must be wrong, I must be the only one struggling.
I realized that I truly just had to accept who I was and embrace who I was. The “self” that I was discovering, although later in life, was someone I wanted to welcome. But I was too caught up with if everyone else would accept and embrace her?
The other thing that I determined was the fact that I am who I am. I have integrity. I know why I do certain things. I am a servant. I help serve others. In fact, they may not even know that I serve them. It makes me happy. It makes me happy to help serve others because in the end, everything I do is for people that are important to me. In the end, I want to be able to help my family and I want to be able to help my friends who have always been there for me. In order to develop myself, I also have to realize I need balance. I know that I'm hard working. I have integrity. I do what I say I am going to do. Then why would I doubt myself?
Why would I doubt myself if I know that I work hard? If I know that I have integrity? If I know that I want to serve others?
Everyone struggles with self-doubt. You are not alone. But self-doubt is just a thought. It is not a fact. The fact is you have the ability to write your present, your future. You do not have the ability to go re-write the past. So don’t give it a second thought.
Be who you were meant to be because, at the end of the day, you have a purpose.
You are never too old to rediscover yourself.