Life is tough!

There, I said it. I have gone through life wondering when it is going to get easier and when everything will just magically fall into place, but I won’t sugarcoat it. Life will rarely happen the way that you want it to.

I am an eternal optimist. I love to see the silver lining in everything, but there are times that even I find it hard to find the joy in the sadness, the peace in the waiting or the calm in the middle of the storm.

I have tried to run long before I knew how to walk and I have run long before I knew how to walk. I have tried to rush life along so that I can get where I want to be, but it doesn’t work. Life will come one day at a time and we must live each day to the best of our ability.

All we can do is take one step at a time!

I worked in kitchens for ten years of my life going from a fast food chain restaurant all the way up to a Michelin-starred restaurant in the UK. Working in Michelin was an incredible experience! But if you want to talk about a time of running before I learned how to crawl. That was it!

It was an eye-opening experience. I had not realized the level of perfection and excellence that was required when you work at a Michelin restaurant. I learned so many things so quickly, but the intensity that I had to learn was intense.

There were a lot of steps I had missed so I had to be attentive and learn quickly. I felt like I was constantly playing catch-up. It wasn’t easy to do, but I did it! I learned more about myself in that two years than I had in the 24 years before that time.

Of the many things that I learned while living in the UK, I learned the level of strength that I have and how much I can endure.

I would be so frustrated with myself when I messed up (which was often). However, I learned that building a foundation is important when trying something new!

Last June, I quit kitchens for good! I took some time off to figure myself out and now I am in a whole new career. Growing and learning a whole new set of skills, but this time I am also putting in the groundwork at the same time. I am doing school alongside my career and so far, it is working.

I am crawling this time because I know that once I start walking, I will gain momentum and be able to start running pretty soon after that. But I have to start slow and work my way there.

Have you ever had an experience where you were thrown into a situation that you were not prepared for? What did you do? Were you able to catch up?

Cheers,

Jael