You can earn decent money in plenty of fields, but not everywhere gives you a deep sense of meaning in what you actually do.
Why do I teach people?
Over my life I’ve tried dozens of very different occupations. I’ve been a builder, a bartender’s assistant in a cinema, a manager at an internet café, a salesman, a sales rep; I worked as a middleman, spent three years trying network marketing, and spent eight years building a marketing agency.
You can earn decent money in plenty of fields, but not everywhere gives you a deep sense of meaning in what you’re doing.
We feel meaning when our inner gifts and talents are engaged, and when we can see real results from our work.
When I started teaching, I fairly quickly began getting feedback from people: that it was useful to them, and that the programme had helped them reach the results they wanted faster.
It’s a wonderful thing — to be a conduit of new knowledge and experience into other people’s lives. To have a hand in someone else’s quality of life changing substantially.
Many years ago I started out in education as a volunteer. I travelled around Ukraine with seminars and said yes to almost every invitation.
I had no way of knowing then that every hour I spent on stage would eventually let me speak confidently to a much wider audience and run an online school with thousands of students.
Sometimes the thing we don’t bet on becomes our life’s work, and brings both the greatest satisfaction and all the resources we need.
That’s why I believe in the idea that the only thing worth doing full-time is what you’d do even without the money.
Right now our New Lifestyle school runs 15 different educational programmes. Of all of them, I have one favourite: the Time Management course.
I love that programme most because on it I get to share with students my own approach to organising my life.
I go through all the tools: the apps, the software, the approach and the methodology.
I used to think of myself as an arts person. I assumed I wasn’t systematic. When I attended a similar course myself, I realised I’d simply got used to thinking about myself a certain way. In practice, I’d just never looked into how a life can actually be organised.
Today I’m convinced that every one of us can bring order to our life, and that learning how isn’t especially hard. You just have to want it.