As I reflected on my life, I realised that my own expectations had become a barrier to my happiness. I had to overcome these expectations that I had for myself that, in hindsight, kept me from finding out who I really was.

Everyone eventually comes to a point in their life where they have to make decisions that eventually ends up changing their life for the worse or for the better. What people have in mind is that the decisions are huge decisions when they don’t necessarily have to be. They could be small decisions that lead to big changes.

It was one of these seemingly small decisions that changed my life.

When I look back on the past few years of my life, I can say that I found it easy to blame everything wrong with my life on someone or something else. It was always someone else who caused me problems, or the economy wasn’t great. There was always something to blame for why I was stuck and not advancing.

Then I decided I had to do something; by taking control of my life. It may sound like it was something that I decided on overnight, but the truth was that it took a long time to get to that point. By the point I decided to do something, I was already trying to find ways out of my situation.

I was doing well in my career, but I wanted to do something more meaningful with my life; and career was such a huge part of my life. I just felt so stuck, and despite making more and doing more, it felt so empty and hollow. Over years, I came to the realisation that I needed to do something different. I needed to do something that I felt something for, gave me a sense of my purpose, and something that fulfilled me. I wanted to help people in some way.

After thinking and overthinking, I decided to stop making excuses. I decided that it doesn’t matter if the time isn’t right, or the economy isn’t great for it. I had to take action and go back to school for counselling psychology. It ended up being more practical than I thought as I could do it part-time; allowing me to work during the day and attend lessons in the evenings. Doing this really opened up my mind and eyes to what I had pent up all these years.

I was learning how to hone my natural talents and attributes. Along with studying and learning about how to listen and help people, I was learning more about myself as well. I knew then that I was finally making the right choices for myself; choices that had real meaning to me. The alternative was to follow a road doing things that didn’t have any real meaning to me, and trying to justify why my life choice wasn’t my own.

Taking the steps to enrol in CAE’s counselling psychology programme opened my eyes to a world I knew I was meant for but had previously did not really know much about. It was a real learning experience that empowered me to move forward with my life, regardless of my excuses.

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There was a time when all I had, and all I could see were problems. I couldn’t advance my career, my relationships were tumultuous, and I felt like life just owed me something better. It’s easy now to admit I had a lot of issues I had to figure out.

Admitting that you’re a failure is something that is very difficult to do. Nobody wants to admit it, even if they believe they are. Failure is, for many people, something very close to being immoral. That’s how it was for me.

There was a time when I would never have admitted I was a failure, and yet that was how I felt about myself. I felt that I couldn’t do anything right. I wasn’t very good in school. I’m mediocre at my work. My relationships stagnated, floundered, or went out of my control. I wasn’t very good at my hobbies either.

All of these things constantly made me feel like I should crawl under a rock and just hide. It just didn’t feel good that I always felt this way about myself and my life. Incidentally it was this feeling that eventually got me interested in learning about other people, how they think, and why they feel the way they do. I ended up deciding to take a course in Counselling Psychology from College of Allied Educators.

I went in expecting to learn about how other people thought and felt, but was surprised by what it did for me, personally. I wasn’t just learning about other people; I was learning about myself. I learned that self reflection was an important component in trying to understand yourself and CAE’s lecturers taught me the different methods and tools to help people reach this state of introspection; which I applied to myself.

When I applied the tools to my own self, I unknowingly started addressing my own feelings of inadequacy and failures. I then started reframing the way I thought about my situation. In time, I realised that I wasn’t failing; I just had setbacks; temporary situations that I could overcome eventually. This was a powerful realisation that got me thinking about other issues I had about myself. Slowly but surely, I inadvertently learned how to see my own success, instead of my failures.

I am thankful for CAE’s lecturers, who brought to us real life cases and real world issues people face on a daily basis. It gave me something I could relate to, and really helped push me to learn more about myself as well. CAE’s counselling psychology programmes are incredibly useful and powerful, and can be completed in a short amount of time.

I am now a little more hopeful about myself and my own future as I can see the potential ahead of me.

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Before I joined CAE’s counselling psychology programme, I was at a point in my life where I was unsure of what I was doing, even though I had already spent years doing it. I felt unfulfilled, but at the same time felt I was maybe too old to do anything about it.

I was working a pretty standard office job. You could say I was successful at my career, or at least, I was doing well. From a career and job point of view, there was really nothing wrong; except, I found myself increasingly questioning what I was doing with my life.