The reason being is because this is a typical morning for me in Japan.

During the pandemic, we aren't in lock down, but days air slower, more chill.

I wake up, make some gluten free organic oatmeal and get to work on my projects because I believe that now is the best time to start a project.

You've been meaning the start.

This entire time I've been working on ways to deliver my passion and share some creativity and inspiration with the world.

I don't know about you, but I've learned more about myself through this quarantine than I have ever before.

What a great time to get to know yourself Way have these, like, really white eggplants.

What is this?

I've never seen a way eggplant before.

And then we have, like this huge purple one.

He's gorgeous ones.

These are amazing.

What is this?

Apple Mango.

This store is amazing.

Akko!

Mango, I don't know.

Once I stopped carrying about other people's judgements of me.

My imperfections, physical and mental.

Once I took more risks.

As soon as I focused on me without feeling a limiting belief of being selfish as we all do.

Things just started to happen.

Earthquake is coming.

I don't feel anything.

The always, it always goes off when it always goes off.

When there's nothing, though, it's weird.

Do you feel anything?

Why did I leave the opportunity to continue teaching in Japan?

Well, it's because it wasn't my purpose.

I love teaching.

I loved being with my students, and I soon came to realize that I love teaching.

What I didn't love being managed by another school.

It limited my creativity and inspiration.

It held me back from creating a better environment for my students.

And English wasn't ultimately what I loved teaching.

And then I realized I could teach something completely different in my own way, my own classroom related to the country I loved.

And with my skills and social media.

Just because you're good at something doesn't mean you love it, and you have to find that balance e.

But do you think it's what, while sending kind of salaryman life talking too much?

My guess is eating what just so the camera is so lopsided actually found this folder in my room.

Lots of little letters from my students and my kids.

But I'll show you some things that they gave me because this stuff meant a lot to me and it made me keep going and inspired me more.

The kids really enjoyed my classes and loved what I did.

So teaching in Japan I will never go back.

The reason being is because not because of teaching kids.

I love teaching.

It comes naturally to me.

It's it's a gift that I have and that I will always cultivate with everything that I do, because to teach is part of my purpose.

It's part of my life living in Japan and teaching, I think, is the most eye opening experience that you will ever have.

So if you've never done it before, highly highly recommend it because it's something that just changes for your perspective on life and on things, and to see a child smile when they learn, or to see an adult grow when you teach them these things, especially when it comes to language.

Language is such a great tool tohave in life, and to be able to do that it's such a gift and it was one of the most rewarding things I've ever done.

Some teachers want direction.

Some teachers want a curriculum handed to them being told what to do and how to execute it.

And that's okay.

There's a lot of people out there that are like that that will take a job and, you know, do the best in whatever they're given.

I and such a creative, imaginative person.

And I couldn't release that.

I couldn't let that out.

I couldn't cultivate that.

I couldn't.

I couldn't have limits.

And the fact that I had limits made me not want to.

I work in a position where I was told how to teach how to create activities or curriculums.

There were set rules I couldn't break.

I had other ideas in mind and I couldn't release that creativity.

I couldn't do anything to my pull up full potential, my teaching methods and the things that I do mean a lot to me, you know, ultimately, it's up to the company of what they do, and you can't.

You don't have much of a say in how things are run, and I just felt limited in my job.

Most people, most teachers, you know, come out of this with a new perspective and enjoyed their experience and love what they dio.

But my purpose part of my purpose is to teach.

And it wasn't what ultimately I aspired to do with my gift of teaching, if that makes sense.

So it wasn't about the kids.

It's not like, Oh, I hate kids I don't want to teach anymore.

It was more of I felt like I was in this box and I needed to get out.

So doing, teaching or teaching for, you know, the 1st 3 years living here, I enjoyed it so much.

And, you know, I had good jobs and I had bad jobs.

Everybody has that overall.

I really loved it and I experienced a lot, and I grew a lot.

I learned a lot, and it was a very eye opening experience, and it was exciting.

And the fact that I was in such a beautiful country and doing this for these amazing bright minded kids was just so rewarding.

This little girl has probably grown so much, so I'm just gonna show it.

This was from one of my old school for name was socko taco, and she was so funny and so fluent in English.

That's me.

I knew that all of these things that I loved and was good at all of these skills, all these strengths that I had could become something mawr.

And the reason why I quit is because I wanted to break free from my limitations and teach something that I was really passionate about.

And I love language teaching.

But language is not really what is aligned with what I want to do or what I feel I could give back to the world.

My purpose had a name and that name Waas too inspire.

I realized that I liked creating a storytelling type Siris on my YouTube channel, and I really wanted to share my truths and how we've grown.

I wanted to show share the negative side of living in Japan that ultimately led me to the positive sides of living in Japan and the positive mindset in the lessons learned because oftentimes people sit and complain and get negative about things, but they don't see the lesson in it, and they don't see the growth in it.

And I wanted to share that part because that's that's the journey to become resilient.

And that's What I want to teach other people is to find resilience and to make mistakes and to not be perfect and to cultivate the rial you.

And that's what I'm passionate about.

And it all is thanks to living in this country because I learned a lot.

I started implementing those lessons into my girl abroad, Siri's, especially in the earlier season.

It was all about, you know, mindset and self development, and that's honestly what I want to move towards because I went through a lot in my life.

Quitting your job is tough.

Your job is what pays your bills.

But your work is not your job.

Your work is what you do on purpose.

Everything that I'm doing is so frickin risky.

It's scary.

It scares me.

You have to turn that fear into excitement because that's ultimately what's going to move You forward in your life can't show the face, but this is me with the students.

Got a lot of these pictures, and I'm very grateful for these pictures.

I got a lot of gifts and flowers, a lot of super nice letters.

Teaching kids is probably the best thing ever, but get your outfit today.

Some are.

You are ready.

Rainy season is over.

Way to go to the museum.

First men find somewhere to eat the most dangerous risk of all Resulting in regret is the risk of spending your life not doing what you want on the bet you can buy yourself the freedom to do it later.

Most of the time, we have regrets surrounding fear.

But what is fear?

Really?

We see fear as the enemy.

We say it's because of fear.

That's what's holding me back.

But blame won't get us anywhere.

We have 100% control over actions.

Pretty.

This is what they're selling right now.

Well, she so you Oh, fear is just that over productive friend.

Keeping from possible pain and fear can protect us.

Yes, in so many situations.

So we should feel grateful Toe have that.

But we need to start to recognize that beer in conjunction to the things we strive for is our true Selves trying to escape.

It's a feeling of a door opening and our cue to just do it.

So women used to be 145 centimeters and men were 1 55 which is shorter than me and they they put black stuff on their teeth.

13th after marriage and a shave their Albert eyebrows after being blessed with first child.

Why so glad?

I don't have to do that, Can't they can't have the problem.

It looks his legs looks really deformed.

Look back on your failures, your history, or look at any failures that happened recently with in our past lives.

Clues to the actions we need to take to move forward.

If we don't see our failures as an option for growth, we can't change.

And in conjunction to that, we have to realize that not all rules and society are set.

These rules in society keep us in line, yes, but they don't define us.

We have the power to do what we want to become a better person, Whether it's quitting a job, deciding on doing something completely different from what we set out to do or wearing that neon pink T shirt you love and everyone else hates.

We create our own destiny.

We create our reality.