Honestly I really like writing this blog, I think it’s partly because as my wife always tells me I really like talking about myself!!
I think one of the most important turning points in one’s life is when they finally discover their life’s purpose and together with that, discover their voice. Maybe for some people it’s easy, some people may know from a young age what they are destined to become and accomplish in life but for others, including myself, their journey discovering themselves, finding their purpose and their voice are more complicated and lengthy affairs.
For myself, I think the turning point was about 9 years back, when my daughter was a baby. I was 34years old at the time and I was thinking of what I had accomplished in my life so far, the sad answer was that I really hadn’t accomplished anything. If anything, I had been a chronic underachiever, I was embarrassed of my work, the places I worked for, the no effect I had on anyone’s life and I was terrified of my daughter growing up and realizing what a loser I had been all my life.
At that time, without any evidence that I could pull something like that off and without anyone believing I could do it, I decided that I would become successful. It’s hard to convey exactly what my thought process was at that time and it was difficult to imagine what that success would mean but I made the decision that I would be successful and I decided that nothing would stop me until I reached that goal.
I still feel like that now, I have my goals and I won’t allow anyone to stop me from achieving them. My professional goal in life is to create a great company, a company that isn’t only profitable but it’s also an exciting, fun and challenging place to work in. A company that can act as a platform for our employees to work hard, be creative, challenge themselves, set lofty targets and be able to achieve them. A company that our employees love and are proud to work for, a company that good work is rewarded both mentally and materially. A company where hard-working teachers and staff can earn enough money to take care of their families and children. A company that would be widely recognised as the best English school to both study and work for in the country.
I know it’s a big goal and creating a great company is actually pretty hard, I had a small brainstorming session with Jaimie yesterday and we identified 4 things that are going really well and 23 (23!!!!) small or big problems our company is currently facing. I’m sure though we’ll achieve our goal, after all we have already decided to!
Tim
