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“Get your teaching certificate as a backup.”
This may have fit under “best advice” when it was given by my mother in the late 1960s. I didn’t follow this advice, I went into marketing. But the teaching profession should not be a backup plan for people who fail in business. On the other hand she also told me to learn shorthand, which I did. This skill is now so archaic that few people can do it or know what it is. But like the Codetalkers I am ready to help my country with this now “secret” coding!
“Choose something more sensible”
be it shoes, career, significant other…my inner voice has consistently helped me make my choice
Go to college.
Forgive and move on…..its not that easy. I’m still working on it.
“Continue taking French (or another language).” Who knew being fluently multilingual would turn out to be so important in today’s world? Now I use tapes before traveling, but still….
I told myself I was too old and too large to become a yoga teacher. So glad I was wrong about that! I got my 200-hour certification this year at 57 and I am still not willow-thin. It was a tremendous and rich growing experience on every level, and I learned that many of my not-so-young or willowy students not only can relate to me as a teacher, but believe yoga will accessible to them because it was accessible to me. It is such a gift to hear someone tell me yoga makes them feel goo! I’m glad I didn’t listen to my own negative-nelly voice.
I was always told that little girls should be seen and not heard. {smile} It has been my life’s goal to dispute this one!
“Make him a friend”. Said by my former boss and friend (we were friends before and after I officially worked for him) about the guy he hired to be the new CR. I had done the job for a year in an acting capacity and selected a yes man instead of me a questioner type. Rough go. I took another assignment elsewhere. Three years later with my friend in a new role he asked me to assist him with his development. He had seen through two different experiences that friends and bosses who are subordinates rarely work well. I’m now working with him so he doesn’t make the same mistakes.
My mother said, “Never mail anything, or throw anything away, if you are holding your keys in your hand.” Clearly, there was a truly horrendous story behind this, which I am still not privy to.
I was strongly encouraged to stay close to home… To get married young and have children… To get a job, not focus on a career. I am 37 now. Never been married. A bachelor degree in engineering physics, an MBA, and currently working on a post grad in cybersecurity. Never married, no kids. I’ve lived in six countries and visited 37 countries. The day I graduated from high school, I became deaf to all of this and look what happened!