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How to turn your resignation into a contribution
After two years of marriage my husband suddenly told me, “Hey! I am going to
open my restaurant!” and I became a missus of the tonkatsu restaurant. Our shop
was very successful, and we had a good reputation from our customers. People
lined up waiting for having our tonkatsu (Japanese style pork cutlet) at lunch
time.
Our family grew with two sons and as well as working in the
restaurant, I became a class mother of PTA, and did volunteer work for the Boy
Scouts. Life was good, but I sighed deeply while I was doing dishes at the
restaurant. I sighed deeply while I was receiving money from customers at the
cash register. I didn’t know why I sighed but that was my life prior to the
Breakthrough Technology Course.
Then, my friend recommended me to participate in this
Breakthrough Technology Course. I did it because I was curious. I asked myself,
“ … is this all there is about life?” During the course, as I listened to the
inquiry that we were engaged in, I noticed many things about myself that were
hidden from me up to that point. I asked myself, “Maybe, I have been living my
life limited by the circumstances and situations I found myself in? Or could it
be that I have been living in deep resignation, and it is up to me to give this
resignation up?”
A year after I did the Breakthrough Technology Course I
recovered an old dream that had stayed a dream. I started my own business to
take care of children and established a nursery school. At the beginning, it was
awkward because I was indeed an amateur with no experience. But in three years
my nursery school was authorized by the ward, and then authorized by the city of
Tokyo as well I have earned the trust of the community.
In 2004 I established a nursing school in a beautiful village
in Tanzania, Africa, where you can see the top of Mt. Kilimanjaro. I visit there
every year and have warm connection to the children in Africa.
Out of my participation in the Breakthrough Technology
Course, I have created a life of contribution for not only Japanese children,
but for children around the world. There is no “sigh” in my life anymore.
Shimizu Noriko, Business Owner,
who did the Breakthrough Technology Course in 1996, Tokyo, Japan.
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