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Discover What Keeps You Stuck?
What is a small town person mentality and how it relates to all people?
I go to Ukraine pretty often to visit with my family. On one of those trips, I had an interesting experience that made me think.
One day, I went to the grocery store and there I accidentally I bumped into my classmate whom I hadn’t seen for more than ten years. So, we shared about our life journeys, and I shared where I was and what I was doing. And, in the end, being an inspirational speaker, I added, I believe, we all have the power to create our dream life.
My classmate looked at me sceptically and said, “It’s easy for you to say so Anna. You live out there in the big world, where everything is possible; while I live down here in this small town, where nothing really happens.”
To be honest with you, my native town is not exactly a commercial and financial centre of the world.
As I was walking home to my parents’ house, I thought about it and I asked myself a question, “Is it really a problem with the limitations of the small town?”
And at that moment, instantly a story came to my mind when I met a lady at a networking event in Miami. She was a real estate agent. She shared with me her story of a continuous struggle trying to get new clients…
