Learning from Life's Troubles

I finished my Master's in Sustainable Development and the global financial crash was going to hit its peak at exactly the same time as was my own stress.

Like most people in their twenties, I struggled. I'd always had a love for the environment and also comprehension the world was irregular in prosperity and advancement and so chose to apply for a Master of Science Degree in Sustainable Development.  

Unfortunately, when I completed my Master's Lehman Brothers had filed for insolvency and everybody was talking about sub-prime mortgages' dangers into the economy. Soon after that stock markets fell across the planet, bank loans dried up and small to medium sized companies were feeling the pinch.

I managed to procure a role as an environmental regulator but that was soon finished while the lady I had been covering for returned from her maternity leave. The job market was in a terrible state and the job market in the growth sector was worse. I decided to start a little enterprise and had trouble in securing a position. Starting a small business is not but I was engaged to be wed, had lately purchased my first home and I was distressed.

Any company takes time to build into a strong profit and I put a lot of pressure to reach. I began work and awakened early, I ploughed through unrewarding hard work all day, then I had supper and began working again until bedtime. I put myself through this routine, day after day, week after week, month after month. My relationship with my fiance began to suffer badly. The majority of our time was spent not spending enough time together and me working too much and about not having enough cash.

I did not observe the signs of burnout that were taking hold of my entire life. I was miserable, my hygiene began to suffer and that I had been irritable all the time. Eventually she predicted time. I couldn't live there anymore although we owned our house together. I ran my company. My burnout prevailed and that I simply could not cope anymore. I had been incapable of working a job. So, in one fell swoop I'd lost all because I hadn't been in a position to detect what was happening in my life, my house, my organization and my fiance. I had become so obsessed with the success of my business which I sacrificed everything.

Before the economy had gotten a little better, I might have obtained work in a shipping job or a grocery store. However, I had been too headstrong to do that. I had obtained my Master's, I was 'too good' for a grocery job. However, needless to say I had been wrong.

It took me some time to recover, build my confidence up again, see opportunities. Now I've started a new business providing businesses with SEO Northern Ireland services and things are going well. I could have heard them a bit easier if I had stopped and have a look at the patterns which formed in my life, although I heard a lot of lessons which have stood me in good stead. If I'd done that and altered my actions and my decisions I would not have sacrificed my house my organization and my relationship.

I learned the best way to teach myself a whole lot, I taught myself to build a successful SEO Belfast company and I expect that others can learn how to do similar things in their lives, without having to make the sacrifices I made.