Author Julia
It is not by accident that the word “Professional” is written with a capital letter in the title of the article. I wanted to strengthen this word with a capital letter, and pay respect to people who do their work professionally.
Throughout my whole life, I have always been looking for professionals in their field, trusting them, and learning from them, besides I have always been ready to pay well for their work. This concerned both my personal life and the lives of my three children, as well as my parents. While choosing educators, mentors, coaches, babysitters or doctors, I have always turned to professionals.
Why did I choose this particular topic for our conversation today? Probably because I am tired of watching amateurs presenting themselves as professionals, and we, potential clients, who might be ignorant in a certain area, fall for their advertising campaigns, social media posts, articles and even books. There is an abundance of advertising on social media, where an “ultra-fashionable” physiotherapist, bodybuilder, relationship specialist, finance specialist, nutritionist and so on (you can list a wide variety of activities) want to teach us something; it fills our information space so much that we are amazed by how we fall under the power of advertising, subscribe, start reading and following. However, unfortunately, at a certain point we quite often understand that it doesn’t quite match up with the truth!
My wish is to make each of us think: whom do we follow, whom do we read, whose words do we repeat and whose actions do we want to copy? In addition, the main goal of this article is to inspire us to turn to professionals in their field who will really help us in the area we want to master.
By education, I am a master in physical education and sports. I know a lot in this area; I use my knowledge, skills and abilities every day and pass them on to my loved once.
When I see advertising posts on Instagram (the only social networking site I use) from new specialists in this field, who, for example, talk about the five most important exercises that will help you pump up your abs, arms or legs and offer you to buy this course, I am always surprised to see hundreds of thousands of views for such simple information! Amazing. People provide sets of five exercises that we learnt in physical education classes, and other people are ready to accept and pay for that. Of course, I understand the SMM strategy and advertising campaigns of certain people, but sometimes you wonder how a video about a set of exercises gets 100 000 views! And it works…
On the other hand, I must admit these posts and promotions are nothing but motivation! Five exercises will help you pump up your abs, fit into last year’s evening dress and feel great this summer. However, the point is that the person offering you the course will not do these exercises for you. They will not do what you should do every day. It’s like the exercise machine you bought, that is sitting in the corner of your living room, collecting dust, but you are still not getting fit.
In case you do want to work on improving your body, just do it!
- Set a goal: what do you want to achieve? What do you want to see in the mirror? Your abs, hot buttocks, arms or legs, or maybe your body as a whole?
- Then dive into this area. Find a guide, a professional in this field, who will help you create a training plan based on your goals, your opportunity to engage in an offline or online format, and show you how to do exercises properly.
- I recommend creating a plan for regularly monitoring of what you do and how you communicate with your trainer.
- Do it. After all
ONLY ACTION PRODUCES RESULTS
This scheme works in any field! If you want to learn a new foreign language, choose a professional! If you want to improve your wardrobe, contact a stylist, pay for a consultation, and it will pay off for you, as there won’t be any inappropriate clothes in your closet.
A psychologist, coach, mentor — choose those who not only promote themselves on social networks, throwing posts full of pictures of their bright and successful life, but those who can help you, give you the advice you need in time, support you when life is not as sweet as in the pictures, and who you can turn to if necessary. Besides, there is also a huge number of specialists in finance, crypto, and so on nowadays! Study the area, spend time to find a professional practitioner and only then pay and take their advice.
When we turn to amateurs, no matter how well they are advertised, we can often be disappointed with their service and give up, thinking that everybody is like that. But not everybody!
SEARCH FOR PROFESSIONALS IN THEIR FIELD, AND YOU WILL FIND THEM!
Great achievements await you with these people!
I am always ready to pay, and pay dearly, for advice in an area in which I am not strong yet. I respect the work of such people and want to learn from them.
In this period of my life, I am investing money in dance self-education. The people I study with are professionals in their field. I am happy to have met them! At each lesson, they are ready to give me more and more, while I am ready to take it. Do you know why they are ready to give more? Because they have something to give! They are filled! They are professionals. They have huge practical experience in this type of activity. They always have answers to all questions. They have not only a set of five exercises, but an ocean of possibilities for me!
In addition, I keep studying English and Italian with the same teacher, whom I have known for over 8 years. She is one in a million! She knows what I need and always tries to give me more. There is a huge load of information, experience, creativity inside her, and she constantly shares it with me! She is a Professional!
At the moment, my youngest son is studying at a private opera school. He is studying vocals, solfeggio, and piano playing, also he is learning French, and how to play tennis. For each of these activities, we have engaged professionals in their field — people who have mastered this area so much that they can teach us, can fuel our fire, can help us set more goals, enjoy our victories, and give us more and more.
So, if you want to progress in a certain area, choose professionals. Choose people with lots of experience in this type of activity. Choose practitioners and learn from them everything they are ready to give you! Appreciate these people and the knowledge they share.
Progress and be happy!
Translated by Anastasiia Moskalenko
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