Are you holding yourself back because you’re lacking a degree?

For years, I told myself I wasn’t good enough or worthy to help CEOs, high profile speakers and other successful people with their presentations because I didn’t have a degree in communication.

I hadn’t studied rhetoric or even something close to communication like marketing, literature or languages.

I had no diplomas and no formal education in the area where I was trying to help people.

I only had a Ph.D. within engineering.

Fast forward a few years my mindset has changed.

It is less about your degrees and more about hands-on experience that will give tangible results for those you are serving.

I am not saying a degree in your field is bad. On the contrary.

However, a degree is often more a “nice to have” than a “need to have”.

If I could go back in time, I probably would have studied something like communication and psychology giving me a (slightly) better position for what I do today.

Nevertheless, I would never trade that degree for the hands-on experience I have gotten since I decided to help passion driven people share their message.

Remember lacking a degree is not a showstopper.

If you’re passionate, driven and committed you will find and learn from the resources available to us everywhere (books, private mentoring, online courses, mastermind groups), even outside school.

I often work with people in the personal development industry.
Some of my clients tell me about the many degrees they have, e.g. NLP, positive psychology, mindset, meditation etc.

Don’t give me wrong. I love these topics.

However, I often get the feeling that they are saying to themselves “I just need one more course or education and I will finally be ready to (really) help people”.

No, you won’t. You’re probably way more ready than you think!

Get out there. Get your hands dirty by applying what you already know now.

Learn, tweak and adjust.

This will be your best education. Not your degree. Agree?