Meet our featured beauty with brains Sonia Kaur, a trainer and team leader based in Sydney, Australia. She is a strong, financially and emotionally independent woman, who has achieved a great work-life balance. Here is her story.
“My name is Sonia. I am a qualified trainer and assessor for ‘Early Childhood Education and Care’ and I also work as a team leader for a reputed RTO (Registered Training Organisation). I believe that life does not require us to be the best, but to only try our best. This lesson has been followed by me, both personally and professionally, throughout my life and I have achieved my goals through hard work. I am an ordinary working woman who has to maintain a good balance between work and family daily and I get my strength from my positive outlook towards life as well as from my family, who has always been with me, through thick and thin. People often ask how I balance between being a management team leader at work and doing household chores on a daily basis. The answer to this is that difficult roads often lead to beautiful destinations and I try to be a positive role model to my two beautiful daughters. I want them to be educated, independent and to be able to keep the love in their family alive.
Being a team leader and trainer assessor in a RTO teaches me to be a mentor as well as to be patient in various aspects and situations at my work. I apply this to my family life as well. I started my life as a new migrant just like many others. Being highly qualified overseas, I had to start from the base in Australia, but I strongly believe that no one can change my life, and no one can do it for me, so I did it for myself. To achieve this, I had to study continuously, and I must say that my husband was the one who had full faith in me and I cannot thank God enough for giving me what I have today.
I am very positive and optimistic and believe that whatever happens, happens for the best. You just have to face whatever comes your way and keep smiling. My parents always taught me to give my best and that being positive is the key to success.
I am very independent, not only financially but also emotionally.
‘A lot of people are afraid to say what they want, that’s why they don’t get what they want.’ – Madonna
I think I am very clear in this perspective as I know my goals and I will work hard to achieve my goals.
People often praise me for being elegantly dressed on a regular basis with a happy and smiling face. In reply to this, I would like to say that you need to learn to love yourself before loving others which I started by achieving my weight goal. It makes me emotional realising that I inspire students and friends unknowingly and they message me to continue spreading motivation around. If I can bring a smile on someone’s face it means that I’ve achieved something big.
I am generally the type of person who forgives people easily. I believe in quality not quantity, when it comes to how people interact with me, and support me through every phase. I am enthusiastic on going outside and being socially active, but I also balance the challenges at work and home, taking pride in everything I do, at all times.
There is no force more powerful than women who are determined to rise and I have proven that by achieving my weight goal and my ultimate work goal.
My message to all women is that a beautiful face and a perfect body will change with age but a beautiful and pure soul will always remain beautiful. By doing good for others you will have a positive outcome for yourself.”
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