This mental breakthrough got me an extra $1500 more in my monthly paycheck

My Personal Story

Couple of years back, I was:

At the worse moment of my life

My relationship was falling apart to the point that suicidal thoughts surfaced. Intense quarrels drove me to desperation, depression and near suicide.

I was at a bottleneck in my job. 20 years with minimal pay increase, zero promotion and no new skills learned.

The reason?

I suck at everything I do

I had average grades, average skills, average everything.

To make things worse, I’m super shy, have social anxiety, dress badly, and cannot express myself clearly.

What hope do I have ahead of me?

A change came in the form of a seminar, more specifically, a life coach who blasted into my life by accident. I was resistant and reluctant to take up her courses. Of course it’s gonna be expensive.

The $20,000!!! Course

She promised that I could improve my life after the 20k courses.

I was desperate enough to be persuaded. There was only one goal for me at that time. It was to earn more money.

My hope was:

With more money, I can quit the boring job

With more money, I can shout louder at home

With more money, I can gain more control of my life

The BIG BUT 

Fellow coursemates were claiming they 2x, even 3x their income within weeks and months.

BUT not me.

I did not lose hope. I was still living on the faith that things would work out somehow and I would finally earn more money.

Then came covid. Everyone worried about losing their jobs. There was much discussion about work transformation and job security.

That was when I did something against the masses.

I tendered my resignation.

One week later a surprise was waiting for me at work.

I got a counter offer with a promotion and a $1000 pay increase.

Did my title say $1500? Yeah, there was another $500 increase this year.

Have I gotten back my initial investment of $20,000? Hell yeah! Took about a year since the snowball started rolling.

So what’s the mental breakthrough?

Take action and something will happen. When you don’t move, things are just in motion around you.

Is it luck that took me there?

50 other people attended the same seminar as I did.

I was the only one to sign up for the course, no one else did.

I was the only one who was promoted in my company during covid.

Did I achieve my goal of earning more money? I certainly did.

However I gained way more than that $1500.

What else did I gain?

The whole world opened up for me.

Now I’m no longer shy, I’m downright thickskinned in fact. I can talk to anybody. I have strangers on the road asking me where I buy my clothes. And most importantly, many people are coming to me with their problems and I try to help.

Maybe you are also feeling stuck.

Maybe you also suck at some of the same things.

Maybe you feel as desperate and depressed as I did.

Did anything resonate with you?

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