There will always be someone else

๐‘ป๐’‰๐’†๐’“๐’† ๐’˜๐’Š๐’๐’ ๐’‚๐’๐’˜๐’‚๐’š๐’” ๐’ƒ๐’† ๐’”๐’๐’Ž๐’†๐’๐’๐’† ๐’˜๐’‰๐’ ๐’„๐’‰๐’‚๐’“๐’ˆ๐’†๐’” ๐’๐’†๐’”๐’”…. โ€‹ โ€‹ ๐ท๐‘‚๐‘’๐‘‡ ๐ต๐ธ ๐‘‡๐ป๐ด๐‘‡ ๐‘ƒ๐ธ๐‘…๐‘†๐‘‚๐‘…. โ€‹ โ€‹ โ€‹ โ€‹ โŒ Getting into a price war is a huge mistake and there are no winners …. โŒ It undermines your education, your training, and the value you provide. โ€‹ โ€‹ โŒ It...

From Suicide to Success

Iโ€™ve had my fair share of shit jobs. โ€‹ โ€‹ โ€‹ Standing on a line cutting cauliflower or broccoli for 10 hours a day or cutting swede! โ€‹ YIP, I can cut you broccoli or cauli ready to go for your roast in under 10 seconds! (you always learn something!) โ€‹ โ€‹ Itโ€™s quite sad...

Price differences

๐–๐ก๐ฒ ๐ข๐ฌ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž๐ซ๐ž ๐ฌ๐ฎ๐œ๐ก ๐š ๐๐ข๐Ÿ๐Ÿ๐ž๐ซ๐ž๐ง๐œ๐ž ๐ข๐ง ๐ฉ๐ซ๐ข๐œ๐ž ๐š๐ฆ๐จ๐ง๐  ๐๐ข๐Ÿ๐Ÿ๐ž๐ซ๐ž๐ง๐ญ ๐ญ๐ž๐š๐œ๐ก๐ž๐ซ ๐ญ๐ซ๐š๐ข๐ง๐ข๐ง๐  ๐œ๐จ๐ฎ๐ซ๐ฌ๐ž๐ฌ, ๐š๐Ÿ๐ญ๐ž๐ซ ๐š๐ฅ๐ฅ ๐ข๐ญโ€™๐ฌ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ฌ๐š๐ฆ๐ž ๐œ๐ž๐ซ๐ญ๐ข๐Ÿ๐ข๐œ๐š๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง๐ฌ ๐ซ๐ข๐ ๐ก๐ญ?โ€‹โ€‹Well not exactlyโ€ฆโ€ฆ โ€‹โ€‹โ€‹So many teachers finish their qualification, but never start teaching because they don’t feel confident...

Think youโ€™re not bendy/flexible enough to become a teacher

โ€‹ Oh how our mind likes to play tricks with us and offer unsolicited advice! ๐Ÿคฏ โ€‹ โ€‹ ๐‘Œ๐‘œ๐‘ข โ„Ž๐‘Ž๐‘ฃ๐‘’ ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘–๐‘  ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘œ๐‘ข๐‘”โ„Ž๐‘ก ๐‘Ž๐‘๐‘œ๐‘ข๐‘ก ๐‘๐‘’๐‘๐‘œ๐‘š๐‘–๐‘›๐‘” ๐‘Ž ๐‘ƒ๐‘–๐‘™๐‘Ž๐‘ก๐‘’๐‘  ๐‘œ๐‘Ÿ ๐‘Œ๐‘œ๐‘”๐‘Ž ๐‘ก๐‘’๐‘Ž๐‘โ„Ž๐‘’๐‘Ÿ, ๐‘๐‘ข๐‘ก ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’๐‘›โ€ฆ.. โ€‹ You get these thoughts โ€‹ โŒ โ€‹ Iโ€™m too old โŒ โ€‹ Iโ€™m too young โŒ Iโ€™m too overweight โŒ โ€‹ I canโ€™t do all the...

What drives you and keeps you moving forward

“๐‘พ๐‘ฏ๐‘จ๐‘ป ๐‘ฐ๐‘บ ๐‘ซ๐‘น๐‘ฐ๐‘ฝ๐‘ฐ๐‘ต๐‘ฎ ๐’€๐‘ถ๐‘ผ? ๐‘พ๐‘ฏ๐’€ ๐‘ซ๐‘ถ ๐’€๐‘ถ๐‘ผ ๐‘พ๐‘จ๐‘ต๐‘ป ๐‘ป๐‘ถ ๐‘ซ๐‘ถ ๐‘พ๐‘ฏ๐‘จ๐‘ป ๐’€๐‘ถ๐‘ผ ๐‘พ๐‘จ๐‘ต๐‘ป ๐‘ป๐‘ถ ๐‘ซ๐‘ถ?” โ€‹ โ€‹ If youโ€™ve got children you might remember that phase they went through where theyโ€™d keep asking ๐‘Šโ„Ž๐‘ฆ? ๐‘Šโ„Ž๐‘ฆ? ๐‘Šโ„Ž๐‘ฆ? ๐‘Šโ„Ž๐‘ฆ? ๐‘Šโ„Ž๐‘ฆ? ๐‘Šโ„Ž๐‘ฆ? Or perhaps you remember being that child! โ€‹ โ€‹ As humans our...

My favourite moment in teacher training

๐‘ด๐’š ๐’‡๐’‚๐’—๐’๐’–๐’“๐’Š๐’•๐’† ๐’Ž๐’๐’Ž๐’†๐’๐’• ๐’Š๐’ ๐’๐’–๐’“ ๐’•๐’†๐’‚๐’„๐’‰๐’†๐’“ ๐’•๐’“๐’‚๐’Š๐’๐’Š๐’๐’ˆ ๐’„๐’๐’–๐’“๐’”๐’†๐’” ๐’Š๐’” ๐’•๐’‰๐’† ๐’Ž๐’๐’Ž๐’†๐’๐’• ๐‘ฐ ๐’„๐’‚๐’ ๐’”๐’†๐’† ๐’˜๐’‰๐’†๐’ ๐’๐’–๐’“ ๐’๐’†๐’‚๐’“๐’๐’†๐’“ ๐’ƒ๐’†๐’„๐’๐’Ž๐’†๐’” ๐’‚ ๐’•๐’†๐’‚๐’„๐’‰๐’†๐’“ ๐Ÿ’ž ๐Ÿ’œ ๐Ÿ’˜ โฃ๏ธ โ€‹ โ€‹ โ€‹ No matter what courses you do or skills you learn in life, you always start at the bottom and work your way up. โ€‹ โ€‹ When you started school...