A WorkLife Lesson: Aisling’s Story: Trusting Her Gut Instinct
In making the move from being employed to setting up her own business, Aisling felt she needed support to understand how to do this well. By well, she meant establishing a company that earned a good reputation because it delivered good work. By good work, she meant work that made a positive impact to people’s WorkLives, because it served their learning wants and needs.
You see, Aisling is a WorkLife learning practitioner. Her purpose and passion is to help people pursue their WorkLives with greater clarity, purpose, passion and pride, by creating continuous WorkLife learning programmes and resources that are accessible to everyone. Actually, that’s her guiding statement that, well, guides everything she does as a WorkLife learning practitioner. Her inspiration in creating her work comes from a lifelong passion for learning. Her work has taught her that the one thing in life that can never be taken away from you is your learning.
Aisling has a strong sense of identity. She is very clear about who she is and what is important to her. She is very values-driven, which has always helped her to know what is right and what is wrong for her. That was about to stand her in good stead as she began to work with a ‘Specialist’ to help her establish her business. Aisling was about to understand how she needed to use her voice to say “NO” to express and protect her identity. To show what she stood for and what she stood against.
In this lesson, you will learn how Aisling had to say NO to advice that went against her values, and how, in doing she expressed and protected her identity.
You will learn how by focusing on helping other people, she found a way to use her voice to establish her business.
In this lesson’s WorkLife Learning Assignment, you will learn to use three questions to help you understand why something isn’t right for you to be able to say NO.
In this lesson’s Continuous WorkLife Learning Assignment, you will learn to live your best WorkLife and to trust others to do the same.