I went to school where a boy in my first careers class said he wanted to be a drug dealer when he left school and when asked where he was going to get the money from he replied government benefits. This boy  got more teacher respect than me – a child who despite everything had clear dreams goals and aspirations for myself. You see I didn’t know at that point what I wanted to do but I wanted to be an actor, a teacher or an interior decorator or TV presenter. This particular teacher laughed at me which encouraged the rest of the class to laugh at me but in the back of my head I thought, well we’ll see. Everything I’ve wanted to do in some way shape or form I have done and done incredibly successfully. You see I had a sliding doors moment.

I very easily could have done nothing with my life or cancelled my dreams because as my teacher said people like you need to have realistic expectations in life. What do you want to do as a career?  Now other people in our lives may have created very limited belief systems in our subconscious because they had limited beliefs for themselves. They may even have worried that you would do better than they did so let’s cast doubt on your beliefs or dreams and abilities for yourself. A lot of the time subconsciously it’s fear that stops us fulfilling any dream and desire that we have – fear that we might fail, fear that someone may laugh or we won’t do it as good as somebody else, but guess what at times you will fail, there will be people doing it better than you, and of course there will be people that laugh at you. The difference is becoming titanium to the surroundings around you and keeping going no matter who says what, having complete faith in whatever you’re going to do whether it works or not will get you closer to the endgame an goal that you have in mind.