Never Stop Learning!

Hi lovelies, ever heard the saying "School doesn't end the classroom just changes"?

 You are probably thinking huhhhh? Let me explain, when you leave education and go out into the world, your education doesn't stop there. Life becomes your school. You need to make a conscious effort to expand your knowledge and tap into that knowing inside you! I've put together five tips for you to use that will allow you to become a student of life!

Find something you are passionate about and really become a student of it. Look back and think, what is it you enjoy doing? If you have a whole list of things write them down and put them in order of what you love the most & what you would love learning more about. You may feel that you know a lot about a certain topic already but trust me... You don't know everything.

I found that at uni I couldn't sit down for more than 2 hours reading, yet when I had my lash foundation module, I would stay up till the early hours of the morning studying my ass off! My dedication and effort was 100% because I was excited to study. It was something I am interested in and truly love so it was easy! There's so much more than meets the eye when it comes to makeup, I never would have known if I didn't choose to study it!

When you think how much disposable income we spend on things like food, clothes, travel, it adds up to a considerable amount. The chart shows the UK average spent on food per week. If you just take just 10% of that every week, for a month, you would have enough money to buy an online course on reed. Yes, it's that simple.

So many of us are happy to spend money and get no return yet when it comes to investing in ourselves, it proves difficult. Ask yourself. Are you ready to BOSS up? If so, book that course, attend that seminar, speak to that person and invest in yourself! Its the best investment you will ever make.

 There is an abundance of e-course, e-books, short courses available today. You just need to go out there and find them. They don't have to cost thousands or require hours in a classroom. They could cost as little as £14 and can be done from your own home. Now is that too much money to spend on yourself! 

Since leaving university almost 8 months ago, I've successfully completed my Makeup Artist course & my Nouveau Lash Extension course. Not because I had to but because I wanted to. Invested my own money into furthering my education in my chosen field of Beauty. Honestly, they were great investments and have catapulted my career. 

Ever watched a movie you love again and suddenly you notice something that you had never seen before? Or read a book you've previously read then that line you never understood clicks & makes perfect sense? Just because you've done it once and got it, doesn't mean you know it! We need to get into the routine of not closing books but keeping them open. Taking the time to study over and over and over again. 

Spend three hours a week just going over the things you have studied and then tell me it isn't getting clearer. I schedule time in every week to study. I go over my lash & makeup manual and pick certain topics to cover so that I can increase my knowledge and practice my skills. This is my craft and you bet I want to be the best I possibly can at it. 

Anything you don't know about your chosen field, guess what? You can learn it! You just have to put the work in, so when you finally book that course, go to that seminar or attend that event, go there and have an insatiable desire for knowledge! Absorb as much information as possible.

 Let's just define the word, so we are all on the same page. 

Insatiable - (of an appetite or desire) impossible to satisfy.(of a person) having an insatiable appetite or desire for something

If your reading this I hope you are or aim to be insatiable.
In my lash class, I was the 'annoying' student. I came 30 mins early, asked a ton of questions, sat in the front row and stayed behind to ask more questions! I sent emails to my trainer after the sessions too, because I wanted to get as much from it as possible. It may have to be that 'annoying' to some but who cares? You are on a mission.

 You might have stumbled across this post from doing exactly that. RESEARCH. I always tell people, Google is your best friend. You can type anything in and get millions of results in seconds. We live in the digital age, you have this advantage and if you're not using it, I'm sorry to say you're playing yourself. Big time. So go ahead and open a new tab, search something that you've always wanted to know. 

If I have any downtime, I am constantly searching the web for resources that will teach me something. You should see the number of tabs I have open in my browser right now (it's ridiculous, my poor laptop lol). So don't just study, qualify then stop. Keep learning, keep growing and keep expanding your knowledge. 

My good friend Carl Konadu (who is an AMAZING Speaker), made one of his famous 'Morning Motivation' videos on this topic! When he posted it I just knew I had to include it in this post, so CHECK IT OUT & Don't forget to subscribe!

So there you go #SHEBOSS. I hope this post has helped you in some way, I think the most important thing to take away is this. BE INSATIABLE. Once you have that hunger & desire to learn or do something, no one can take that from you. Keep going until you are full and once full, take a dump and get back to learning! 

If you have any tips of your own you would like to share, drop them below & get the conversation started! 

love,