Right so here goes..
This is all new to me I've decided to take the big leap. I have decided to push myself out of my comfort zone. I feel that I'm ready, I feel that nothing happens before it's time, and I feel that the time is now.
I have been procrastinating for the longest time lets just say for arguments sake about two years at least. Two years with this idea popping in and out of my head. Two years of me off and on collecting all the information I need to finally arrive to 2022 where I decided it was time to make that dream a reality.
So I started to develop my course after, while doing that I also posted an advert on Nextdoor and Facebook asking who was interested in learning how to sew and to my surprise I got a lot of people interested. I then contacted the local community to see if there was any available hall space to hire. There was a Thursday available and with the financial help of my Mother I put a deposit down for 10 weeks. I purchased 3 additional second hand sewing machines. I got a great deal may I add.👍👍 I already had an Overlocker and Iron. So I was good to go.
Anyway while multi tasking, working part-time being a mother (doing home work, cooking, cleaning and school run) after school and weekend activities for the kids I continued to develop my course. It was late nights during the week and early mornings to do the school run. But as I decided now was the right time I was determined to develop the course.
During this time I collected all the information from the people that were interested and was keeping them informed about the course by this time I had a date 21 April 2022. I continued to use social media to advertise myself.
Now developing a course is definitely out of my comfort zone, I'm absolutely rubbish with computers, but as I've mentioned several times this was about me achieving my goals and coming out of my comfort zone, so I continued and so many times I came close to giving up, but the determination that I had and the conversations I had with myself, I had to keep encouraging myself, I had to keep talking my self out of other options that I only considered when I came to brick wall. I kept telling myself giving up is not an option and this is what I want to do, I had to vision myself doing it and belief I was going to be able to achieve it. 🙏
Now here's what happened, so leading up to the course the number of people interested started to decrease baring in mind people were saying they were interested . At this point its about several weeks before my course was due to start I hadn't received any deposits. So the day before the course no students no deposits equals no course to teach. 😩😩
The day my course was supposed to start, I was shattered that day I will say it very proudly I cried like a big baby, I wrote off the rest of the day and stayed in bed. While feeling like my world had ended I was thinking (now I am a virtual assistant for a company that specialises in career change, I edit the podcast and publish) and while thinking I remembered the career coach talking about people need to be familiar with you before they buy from you ( to put it in short, I can't really remember all the specifics, but you understand what I mean).
Taking this into consideration the next day I dusted myself off and I called the community centre and spoke to the manager who has been very helpful and understanding he allowed me to change the date to July with no extra cost. Then I made it my mission to make some quick summer items, done a quick upcycle and I was posting as much as I could, admittedly I could have posted some more but as I'm not a social media person the amount of posting I done was good for me.
And then the upcycling post caught attention from someone from Ealing council, Chief Operations Officer who was looking for someone to run a sewing workshop . You couldn't even image the feeling. 😂😂 But lets not forgot about the teaching in the community centre, my second date came and went again I had no students, but at this point I was just overwhelmed with Chief Operations Officer contacting me.
With several e-mails back and forth and meetings I am very pleased to say that I will be teach my sewing course, working with Ealing Council commencing 28th October 2022- 2nd December 2022 ( I wrote the whole date out as it looks better.) 😄 Lets go back a bit, I got too excited and missed out a very crucial part ( well to me it is).
Remember I told you I developed my course, well while talking to the operations officer she explained to me that she was looking for someone who could teach people how to sew, I explained all of the above to her, I sent my course to her and she was more than happy to use the course that I had designed. At one point this all felt too good to be true and I had to ask her " Is this really happening?"
Now your all caught up, my message to you, the reason why I decided to do a blog was to say to anyone out there that sometimes in life when we have an idea there and then, follow it through. You never know where It could lead to and not all the time will result be immediately, it might be setting a path for your future, but allow it to flow. Ie if I didn't collect all that information how may years ago I wouldn't be in the position in 2022 to except an opportunity like this. If I didn't take this job (virtual assistant) I wouldn't have been exposed to a different way of thinking.
Do not give up on your dreams, they are always possible. xx
