Last-Minute Changes: Boon or Bane? Depends on You.

Last-minute changes can really throw you for a loop.

Especially if it happens without warning.

Now, you could complain and stubbornly try to stick to your guns as you ride it out, or you can purposefully look for opportunities to learn, grow, and test yourself.

One attitude will keep you resentful and wary of the future.

The other will keep you positive and excited for what's to come.

I know what I'd prefer to be.

I'm Leaving the School Enrichment Market. Here's Why.

If the market you've been in for over 10 years is deteriorating into a race to the bottom, and showing increasing instability, on top of a refusal to do things in new ways (i.e. innovate), would you stick it out?

Or would you look into a new one, possibly even create your own?

This was a dilemma I started to ponder upon 3 years ago. Things were so unpredictable, that I sometimes went months without substantial projects.

And then, the pandemic hit. And projects vapourised, with only vague promises, constant postponements, and non-committal nods.

This was the kick I needed to decide to get out of a market that I'd been clinging on to, both because of fear of the unknown and fond memories.

And thus, I am exiting the school enrichment market (in Singapore).

I would have loved to stay, but there are too many things wrong with it, and too little being done to rectify them.

Perhaps I'll expound on these things in a future post and hope for improvement for the sake of those still in it, but, for now, I'm looking towards a future that is, though still clouded, full of potential.

To those I've worked with, and are still in it, I wish I didn't have to go, but I cannot be part of this swirling maelstrom anymore.

Take heart. Things will eventually look up.

And I'm sure we'll meet again, though likely in different capacities.

This isn't really goodbye.

Novelty Leads to Change. Do We Like Only One, and Not the Other?

People like new things that are novel.

They don't like new things that bring change.

And yet, doesn't the former almost always lead to the latter?

As an expert in your field, you got to where you are based on your past experiences.

The future will not remain the same.

Hence the need for constant learning and updating.

That is, if you want to continue being a recognised expert in your field.

May This Be a Month of Possibility and Reflection

May has ever been a month of possibility and reflection.

It is so close to the middle of the year, that it feels like a good time to look back upon the preceding months. It is also far enough away from the end of the year that it feels like a good time to recalibrate and refocus for the months to come.

I have spent a great deal of time on pursuits I probably shouldn’t have. And in the midst of them, I have also stumbled upon things I wouldn’t have otherwise.

So I look towards the future, with an eye still on the past.

I will process that latter anchor, that I may unfetter myself from it, and fully invest myself in that which will bring my intended future closer.

To all who are in similar straits, not so dire yet not so calm, do the needful and then lean forward. The sails will take you where you have to go.