Boldwin International School's Annual Magazine 2015-2016 | Page 33

Founding and running Boldwin School
Throughout my experience in the GCC, I have accumulated a lot of
knowledge on how to use ideas to produce value, in 2012, I took
the decision to come back and start boldwin school, after all, my
personal mission statement was always on my wall to remind me
that I MUST DO IT.
This is my year four in Lebanon starting and running boldwin school,
and believe me it’s far from heaven.. It is true that starting your own
business is exciting and fulfilling, but it’s also the most stressful and
suffocating experience of my life. Pitfalls are plenty, challenges are
numerous.. I sacrificed a lot of my lifestyle luxuries I used to have in
dubai. But what keeps me going is one thing: Passion.
Throughout my career, I did plenty of mistakes and failed in many
projects, trusted wrong people, underestimated circumstances,
took wrong decisions… but all of the above made me who I am
today and made Boldwin School one of the pioneering educational
institutions in Lebanon. It was the first school to integrate tablets in
education, grew from 50 students to 200 in 3 years, the only school
in shouf area that has foreign staff and teachers, and presents a safe
and healthy environment for kids to prosper.. This brings me to another key message of my speech which is: If you are not prepared to
fail or do mistakes you will never come up with anything original or
off value. “The real failure is when you stop trying.”
Finally, life is like running a marathon, which I am preparing to do this
November, sometimes it feels great, but sometimes especially in the
last kilometers, you reach a point where you can’t take it anymore,
you can barely breathe, your body hurts, your muscles suffering,
and you tell yourself: “why don’t I stop and take a rest”, but then
your passion comes to play, It’s an internal voice calling you from the
inside to keep fighting, keep pushing, and never quit. Thank you.

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