For me as I head into a milestone
birthday I look back on past milestones and think back how strong I am
through all that is thrown at me I rise and will not bow down to
challenges I am a fighter and always get back up no matter how many
times knocked down. The following is not a boo hoo woo is me it just
shows to me that I am learning life lessons.
On my 40th year it was one of the toughest and one that
you never get over it was when my son and his mate were killed in a car
accident even when you think I am fine a song a place or a friend of my
son will bring tears to my eyes when I remember how much I miss him, the
whole in my heart remains to this day. In the same year I lost my dog
and a close friend to car accidents.
But you know you just get on with life you have to and I went on to
work with adolescent boys as housemother in a boarding school which made
my heart sing and had me laughing and at times crying with them as I
got involved as like a surrogate mother in their lives.
This time was one of my happiest times I can remember. I rarely went
out but I accepted an invite to a friend’s wedding where I was to meet
my future husband and we lived at the school where he went to work on
his bike and returned home in the evening.
Over this time I had managed to grow a portfolio of 4 homes and
started a renovation company where my husband was able to help out with
many of the tasks I even had my own tool belt and I was no stranger to a
drill, hammer or screwdriver all was good.
We were only married 3 months when my husband was involved in a
serious motorbike accident that I attended as it was right in front of
the school where we lived. The accident degloved his foot and his leg
broke fibia, tibia and femur. 6 months in hospital 12 operations and he
could not work any longer.
I was left as the main bread earner at a time when the real estate
bubble burst I had a husband at the hospital and creditors knocking at
my door I can remember it that sinking feeling and what the stress was
like back then the thought of how difficult it was and knowing the buck
stopped with me with no support from a husband that needed to focus on
getting better and the amount of physiotherapy that was needed to get
him to walk again.
I knew nothing else other than to work hard, write to my creditors
and to be honest with them in what was happening rather than have my
head in the sand that gave me a little wriggle room to learn Internet
marketing and try to forge ahead to earn extra income.
The struggle I had was not that I wasn’t ready to learn it was making
stuff work and have funds coming in rather than going out. It was with a
coach that things started to move forward it was 12 months before I
started to earn a regular income, the more I earned the more I invested
in myself in the way of mentors coaches and courses.
Today, I have built a company with the help of a business coach that
is rock solid, I help businesses grow by supplying them with expert virtual assistants
that are there to do the grunt work for them to free them up so that
they can think of other creative ways to grow their business. They are
no longer in the trenches and have really clawed back more time.
I am now in a place of gratitude thankful for the journey along the
way that has given me knowledge to know what it feels like to have
struggled but now its the time for me to select the people I want to
work with in the way of different business partners, I have come to
realise that the people that I am aligned with are the exact reflection
of me in my outlook and the longing I have to keep helping people grow.
I look forward now to the next milestone birthday as life just keeps
getting better no matter how many hiccups that I have along the way.
Source: Need a Virtual Assistant
