Specialise? I Can’t Even Pick A Shampoo

We share how a nonlinear, multi‑passionate life becomes a strength, not a flaw. From early jobs to healing and teaching, we connect the dots into a clear, modular way to learn and serve.

• challenging the myth of early specialisation
• gathering skills across roles and industries
• turning lived experience into usable wisdom
• resisting one‑thing coaching and false focus
• healing after a car accident and finding purpose
• shaping modular learning for adult learners
• keeping one‑to‑one readings for real connection
• merging personal growth with spiritual practice
• Soul Tech Soul: human, soul, and tools together
• questions to help you map your own path

If you’re interested in finding anything else out about Soul Tech Soul and or spiritual development, this is it, this is the place to be

Transcript

Welcome And The Core Question

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Hey, hey, hey everyone. Welcome to Zoetic Chat, Unleas Your Life's Journey with me, Jan Mayfield. I've been thinking about, you know, times when people message me for a reading or a one-to-one session with me, and they often talk about their children, and they'll say, Oh, names have changed, obviously. Oh my Johnny, he's had so many different jobs, and I wish he'd settle down, I wish he'd do this, or I wish he'd get one career. Now that isn't always right for someone. So I spent most of my life wondering. Wondering if if if I was doing life wrong if what I was doing in my life was wrong. Because I could never choose one thing. And this re week I realized I was never I was never meant to do one thing. Well, I did realise it a bit before, but there's been another confirmation coming through. So I've had many interests in my life, all different things at different times, like my spiritual path, going to different churches, walking, hiking, reading, lots of things, writing, lots and lots of interests, just like anybody else. Many roles we've all got: mum, auntie, grandma, we've all got different roles in life, and that leads you to really having so many different versions of yourself, doesn't it? But having all those versions of myself can often lead to being labeled as unfocused, as being flaky or indecisive. But you must realize that some of us are not here to specialize early, we are here to gather life, and I feel that's what's happened to me. I can't remember the name of the book. This is typical me. This is I start something, then I can't remember the name. It was given to me on uh well, it wasn't given to me, it was said in a podcast. Let me just get it. Oh, it's called The Range. The book is called The Range, Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World. And the core message to that is Epstein challenges the cultural myth that early specialization is the only path to success. He argues that in a world that is complex, unpredictable, and ever-changing, individuals with a wide range of experiences and flexible thinking are often better prepared to solve novel problems, innovate, and adapt than narrow specialists. So if you think of yourself, what have you done in your life? Were you someone that specialized early on, or are you someone that's gathered information over time? So I'm the person that's gathered gathered information because I left school and I'd got three choices. I've told you this before. I could be a hairdresser, I could work in an office, or I could work in a factory. That's what my parents told me. And I thought that was it. Because when you left school at 16, which is what I did, those were your choices. There was never even a thought of me going to university, no thoughts of anything like that at all. And I I just went with the flow because I thought my mum and dad knew best, which they probably did. Because I thought my mum and dad knew best what was best for me. But you know, hindsight's a wonderful thing, but nevertheless, so I left school, I went to college, I trained as a hairdresser, I worked in a little shop, I got bored, I didn't like it, I moved on to something else, then I did something else, and then I moved areas, and I retrained into relief pub management, so relieving landlords and landladies when they went on holiday, and I loved that, I really quite enjoyed that, and then what else have I done? I worked in Cornwall in a fish factory, I've worked in shops, retail, everything that I've ever done, I've always reached the top. So I've always got to manager level, or I've always got to a part in the company where I can't get any further, and then I became a teacher in IT, teaching in adult education and teaching in colleges. And you know, it's I've enjoyed my life, and everything, every time I moved from one job to another, it was always something presented itself for me. I didn't really go out looking for something else. I did get bored and I knew I was at the end, but I didn't really recognise the pattern until later on. And then people used to say, Oh, aren't you going to settle? Well, I never really did at that point. The only time I think I really settled was when my children were born, and I always knew that I would stay there, stay wherever I was, look after them, not work for the first five or seven years, and then go back to work or retrain, which is what I did. I retrained, but nevertheless, I moved from one thing to another throughout my life. So I was a wanderer. I still am in a lot of respects, but what I've realized is so that book that I've just told you about, that really explains my life gathering information, gathering skills, gathering knowledge, gathering wisdom, or turning what I'd learn I've learned into wisdom, and that is totally my life. So to all you coaches out there that have ever spoken to me and tried to get me to just focus on one thing, which is what I actually wrote in my journaling diary. If you're following that on my social media, what was it? You need to be a psychic, or you need to be a medium, or you need to be a therapist, or you need to teach. You can't do them all, they used to say to me, and it never felt right choosing one because I never could. So I thought, yeah, okay, that would, and I used to think that's the wrong coach for me. Did I need a coach? No. Did people tell me I needed a coach? Yes. Who told me I needed a coach? Coaches. So, you know, there was a big circle of coaches. There was a glut of coaches coming into the framework of life, really. Anyway, I never bonded with any of them and I never settled with any of them. I just carried on doing my thing. And I always allowed the universe to guide me. I've been on very, very few courses, unless I've needed a certificate for insurance purposes, then I've gone on the course to get the certificate to do that. But the universe, if you don't believe in the universe teaching, I don't know, if you don't believe in the universe teaching, then I'm self-taught. But as far as I'm concerned, the universe, my soul, has guided me where I needed to go for the teachings that I've needed. So I went to college and I became a teacher and I loved it. I absolutely loved it. I worked my way up again from teacher, program manager, centre manager, but then I started to lose the teaching side, which I didn't like. But then I had a car accident, which made me finish that job on medical grounds, and then I once I started to repair myself and get better from the car accident, which took me two years. So going from bedridden almost to having my own business with the help of crystal healing or Reiki and spiritual healing and positive talking and all of that kind of thing, it then took me fully onto my spiritual path, which is where most of you will know me from. Being the psychic medium, the the me, yeah, the psychic, the medium, the healer, the talking therapist, all of those kind of things is where you will have met me, you will have been drawn to something, mostly on social media these days. And you know, I've worked with people for 15 and 17 years, and you know what a funny thing is, and I'm digressing as I do. I'm starting to meet people that I've been working with for all that time, and it's so so lovely to actually meet people in the flesh, have a hug, and and and just have that feeling of wow, you know. Sometimes you just know people are meant to be in your life, don't you? You just know it, and time and time, and they learn and they grow, and you watch them, it's like you're part of the family, it's just so lovely. Anyway, so I am the wanderer, but I don't feel that now. I feel like I've gathered everything that I need for this part of my life because what I'm doing with all the courses that I've ever written is I'm going through them and re-recording parts of them to give you chunks or modules that you can then learn at your own pace. So I'm going to be putting them actually on gumroad. You can learn at your own pace, pick the modules you're really interested in, and then build your own course from that. Instead of coming on, like let's say a seven-session course, seven nights of the week, you can take that module, a module from that course, and and run it yourself. And if at any time that I do put it on as a live event, teaching it live, then you can come and join that as well. But so I believe that people are going to be learning more in a modular way, as opposed to big, big courses, unless your job demands the course. For people that I come in contact with, I definitely feel the modular side to it. There was another book that I read called The Wanderer, and I remember when I read that it was talking about people that went from one thing to another, one place to another, one country to another. And again, it said that's who they are and that's what they are. And I remember years and years ago, when I was three or four, the lady, the lady that sat in my bedroom telling me that I was going out with a bang, basically. So, meaning the latter part of my life was gonna be the best, if you like, and I do believe that because I can feel the wisdom of the years inside me wanting to come out, and I can't wait to get it all out. Sometimes I have to take a break because I can't speak fast enough, and I can't, you know, put everything together quick enough to get it out there because I know there'll be something after that, but I just need to get all this out there for you. So, what sort of modules would you be interested in? How can you see you moving forward in a modular way? Are you someone that works on one thing and specializes it and stays in that area? Or are you like me, learnt, been part of, been educated in so many different ways? And now you're putting it all together? Who are you? Have you ever thought about it? Have you ever thought why your life is going in one way when it could have gone in another way? Have you ever thought about that? What do you think about your life? Do you think it was all meant to be? Do you think you could have gone down a different route? Do you realize that everything that you've been given is for you, for your learning, for your experiences? Can you feel it? You can feel it. So if you've lived many lives inside one lifetime, which is what I have, this is your confirmation. Nothing you've lived is wasted. So let the universe carry on showing you what there is, what there is to come. Mine is definitely putting things together now to share with everyone, and and that's where I am. I'm still doing my one-to-one readings, I can't let go of those because I just love the contact with people. I guess one day I might let go of those. And I did try about a year ago to drop them off. I stopped advertising them, and so I just got all my regulars that see me at their convenience, and uh it felt wrong, so I carried on doing it. I started advertising them again, so I am still doing the one-to-one readings, messages, or connecting to your loved ones, mediumship, and all that, and it feels good, it does feel good. So, for me, my life now is sorting out everything that I've ever done because I've got loads of pace pieces of paper, I've got lots of typings in Word, all that need to be come, need to be refiled, either deleted, or the information on it used to share with other people. If I can't share it, then it's going. I'm at the latter part of my life now. I mean, I might have another 20 years left. How old would that look? That would make me 85. Well, I could have a 30 years, 85. Yeah, I could live to 105, 95, 105, so I might have a bit more, but nevertheless, it's time now to put it all together. So I had confess confirmation with the books, The Wanderer, the book, the previous book that I've told you about, had confirmation really with my gut feeling with the coaches that they weren't right for me. And I had major, major confirmation when I went to the spiritual fair, and I had a reading with a guy there. I just fancied one on the day, and not not the guy that a reading, and he got me to shuffle cards and he got his own tarot deck and picked so many out. He said, You are you, you must do you. That's what he said. You must do you, and he confirmed to me, without me saying any words whatsoever, you are not meant to go in one direction, you are meant to use all of your skills in your life, however they materialize. He said that so strongly that I cried, and he was the only person that had ever confirmed to me that that is what I was supposed to be doing, and I did cry, and it was a release and a relief that someone him through his guides had told me what I actually needed to hear. Did I need to hear it or should I have a hundred percent trusted the universe? I actually needed to hear it because I was in a time in my life where I was sometimes I get overwhelmed with with all the different things, but then I take a day out and I work it all out and put it all together and think, yeah, that's perfect, and that's what I'm doing right now. I've just I've created Soul Tech Soul, which is all for you know, the merging of AI, human and soul, and I've been working on that myself for myself for over 19 months. So I'll be giving you first hand experiences of that. But along, and that's your personal development, and in the 21st century, and moving forward, but alongside that, I do run the spiritual development group, which is twice a month on a first Thursday and the last Thursday of the month with the WhatsApp group to support it. So I'm doing merging the spiritual development and the personal development. I've always said that the two go together because if you're down on your personal, your your spiritual isn't going to flow, and the opposite as well. So if you're interested, I'm sure you're very interesting. If you're interested in finding anything else out about soul tech soul and or spiritual development, this is it, this is the place to be. I'll give you as much as you need, but I will give you what you need to be you. That is the most important thing about my teaching. I give you what you need to be you, not a clone of someone else. See you on the other side. Spiritual development or soul tech soul. Have the most amazing day. Thank you.