Are you a Lifelong Learner?

I personally believe that the most important mindset one should have to become successful in life is to have the mindset of a Lifelong Learner. This is how being a life long learner changed my life.

In the summer of 2005 when I graduated with a Diploma in Teaching

I was thrilled.

I was ready to take on the world.

I felt exhilarated.

I was done with learning. ?

Now I said to myself,

“Fatima, You are now complete and ready to face life’s challenges!”

But when I stepped into the real world to deal with employers, people, and life, I had a rude awakening. I realized I wasn’t complete, and life had become the toughest teacher for me.

They say life IS the toughest teacher because it gives you the test first and the learning hopefully follows.

I quickly understood real learning begins with life experiences?

By building the mindset and skills to develop the confidence and live my life to the fullest.

During the pandemic, many of us had to put our life on hold but this created an opportunity of learning with many lessons of self-discovery and revelations for many of us.

Before this, getting a university degree meant our learning stopped?there, but I'm sure like me, each one of us quickly understood that once we got that degree and walked into life’s experiences that’s when the real learning begins.

Most of the success in my career I owe to a lifelong of learning from people real life experiences and many of those whom I interact with on a day-to-day basis. Each experience has taught me many invaluable lessons.

Learning feeds our mind and helps change our habits to become the better version ourselves.

Viktor E.?Frankl?said,?

“When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves."

Life is the toughest teacher; it gives the test first and the learning follows. Each one of us must take this beautiful life filled with abundance seriously

We become the teacher and test taker but only with this awareness will Learning follow!

TedX speaker and Public Speaker and Coach Peter Karagianakis says "Confidence builds confidence”

If we constantly think life is unfair it will remain unfair. It’s up to each one of us to build the skills and develop a lifelong learners mindset.

This helps us build resilience and extract meaningful learning from each phase in our life.

Remember:

"When we are competent enough to leave the bad situations behind and gain the skills to become confident with a growth mindset we start to flourish in our life."

Lifelong learning helped me build the resilience and confidence I needed to get me where I want to be in life, and I will continue to be a learner till my last breath.

My life long-learning involves a greater awareness of life itself.

How to engage with life?

And how to have the skills to do it well?

This awareness is important to me.

This is how life-long learning has changed MY LIFE.?

Every experience we go through, every person we meet prepares us for something greater!

• Our experiences become our learning.
• Our learning become stepstones.
• Our stepstones become the path to our destination that will lead us to achieving our?Dream Career goals.

This was my speech for SUPER SPEAKER Season 2, the Ultimate Hunt to find the Best Speaker in the country!?

I am sharing this video from the challenge where I talked about "How being a lifelong learner has impacted my life?"

I hope this inspires you to become a Lifelong Learner.

Here's to your Intentional Success!

Fatima

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