Tag: disappointment

This past week I decided to share my career journey. There were so many ups and downs….a lot of disappointments too. I remember moments of fear and worry. I wanted to give up often.

I am sharing it here so you too can see and relate. Very few people’s story is a straight line. If it is, that person is indeed blessed. Read below….

Here are a few things that you may not know about me:
1. My original plan was to be a doctor.
2. Becoming a teacher was my alternative plan.
3. I was not willing to teach, so after college, I went back to retail, then banking.
4. My lifelong career in Quality started as a contractor for one of my favorite companies. I stayed for 18 years.
5. My experiences there have been the engine behind a lot of what I know and do today as an entrepreneur and as a Quality professional.
6. I’ve trained executives and staff, launched software at companies to manage Quality documents and participated in external agency inspections.
7. I had the privilege of training trainers while launching a document management software in 12 locations around the world- including Australia and India. All done virtually with screen shares – working at a Fortune 500 company.
8. I developed a simple template to track training in my company’s department and by the time I left that company, it became an adaptable template that the entire site used to track training. I was never acknowledged for it. I published my first 2 books while working in this location.
9. I fought through slander, being ignored by management and other things over the years to now being sought out for my expertise in the Quality Assurance field.
10. I published 5 books (actually 6, but one has a crazy story linked to it and it can’t be sold). One is an ebook to help authors.
11. I am preparing to write again.
12. Now, my passion is to see my clients soar! Their books are changing lives, and I want to be their biggest cheerleader.
13. The impact, the lessons, and the experiences are all part of who I am today. Quality, patience, generosity, encouragement and high expectations are all hallmarks of what I do every day for my clients.

I want you to review my list and sit back in a quiet space and create your own list journey. Everyone has one. Remind yourself of how far you’ve come, and how much it took to get you to where you are now.

And….your journey is not yet over! There’s so much more to accomplish.

Don’t you ever minimize your “list” anymore. It’s what grit and accolades are made of!