Chrizzy
08-24-2003, 11:38 AM
Dear Cheryl and everyone,
Since a long long time I'm receiving your Life Makeover mails, and with great interest I'm reading them every week and they inspire me, give me hope and courage and smiles.....
But this week is very special. It's all about taking a risk. How about one? I am a singel mum since ten years, and since 1982 fulltime working for the Dutch governement. I have learned a lot, met nice collegues, I've had my ups and to be honest: many downs. I always told my collegues: I work here but I feel I lost my way. After my work has been reorganising for the third time within five years and I had to start a new position all over again I couldn't coöp very well anymore. And in the beginning of this year (being 44, still a single mum of two kids age 10 and 12, and overcome a double hernia by exercising) I decided I should take the time to find out if my lifelongdream to work with children was as impossible as I always thought (not educated to get the right job, no money and energy left to get the right education). And after a lot work with a lot of courage I will start tomorrow as a teacher in a school and work with children between 12 and 16 from difficult backgrounds, can you believe it?I leave 22 years working for the governement and a good salary and all my securities behind to go after my heart and do the thing I always wanted to do but of wich I thought it was out of reach for me in this lifetime. Sometimes I wonder if I'm irresponsible(beacause of all the so-called securities I leave behind, and because I'm going to earn a whole lot less). But for the first time in my life I feel really happy going to work and I feel courage and love and total motivation. It gives me so much energy and I feel already more healthy and happy then I have felt for a long time.And the lovely thing is that people who know me, but also the new people in the school who don't know me, believe in me and trust in me and that they all say: you are the right person for this job and you are going to the job just fine and you will handle the children well and make them feel good about themselves.(They have more faith in me then I have in myself at this moment). You will understand that your mail brought me a big smile and gave me just that little bit of extra courage for my new start and "risk"that I am taking from tomorrow on....
Thank you for all your beautiful mailings!
Christine/the Netherlands
Since a long long time I'm receiving your Life Makeover mails, and with great interest I'm reading them every week and they inspire me, give me hope and courage and smiles.....
But this week is very special. It's all about taking a risk. How about one? I am a singel mum since ten years, and since 1982 fulltime working for the Dutch governement. I have learned a lot, met nice collegues, I've had my ups and to be honest: many downs. I always told my collegues: I work here but I feel I lost my way. After my work has been reorganising for the third time within five years and I had to start a new position all over again I couldn't coöp very well anymore. And in the beginning of this year (being 44, still a single mum of two kids age 10 and 12, and overcome a double hernia by exercising) I decided I should take the time to find out if my lifelongdream to work with children was as impossible as I always thought (not educated to get the right job, no money and energy left to get the right education). And after a lot work with a lot of courage I will start tomorrow as a teacher in a school and work with children between 12 and 16 from difficult backgrounds, can you believe it?I leave 22 years working for the governement and a good salary and all my securities behind to go after my heart and do the thing I always wanted to do but of wich I thought it was out of reach for me in this lifetime. Sometimes I wonder if I'm irresponsible(beacause of all the so-called securities I leave behind, and because I'm going to earn a whole lot less). But for the first time in my life I feel really happy going to work and I feel courage and love and total motivation. It gives me so much energy and I feel already more healthy and happy then I have felt for a long time.And the lovely thing is that people who know me, but also the new people in the school who don't know me, believe in me and trust in me and that they all say: you are the right person for this job and you are going to the job just fine and you will handle the children well and make them feel good about themselves.(They have more faith in me then I have in myself at this moment). You will understand that your mail brought me a big smile and gave me just that little bit of extra courage for my new start and "risk"that I am taking from tomorrow on....
Thank you for all your beautiful mailings!
Christine/the Netherlands