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Wednesday, 2nd August

Ever been told you can’t? Rewind back to 10 years of age and the teacher asks you what you want to be when you grow up. I remember it well.

Some kids said they wanted to be a train driver, some a nurse, some a doctor, some a police officer, but this was when you SPOKE in front of everyone..

When you had to do homework on it, submit it privately to the teacher when NOBODY saw it, it turns out the dreams got a whole lot bigger. In front of class, i wanted to somehow be a vet, even though i wasn’t amazing picking up animals but it “sounded passable” in front of others just “fit in”.

In my private essay, i wanted to be an astronaut! Way more adventurous but that’s what it was. I’m betting many of the other kids give their TRUE thoughts on paper when nobody was looking too!

I may not have been a spaceman but you get the picture. As we get older, the constraints on our thoughts become even greater. The greater ambition we show, the more our friends laugh, and even some teachers discourage us, and try to get us to do things “normal” or within “our ability levels” often to fit in.

I strongly encourage you to stick to that piece of paper when nobody is looking, nobody is going to see it and put you off. That piece of paper may look different 20 years later but keep writing it, refining it until you get where you really want. In fact, write a new one right now if you haven’t before, with your life’s ambitions pouring out of you.

You have to be realistic, you have find the way to get there and there is ALWAYS a path, because someone has always done it before. One thing though, your journey will always be DIFFERENT to theirs, because you are an individual completely different to anyone else.

Don’t make the mistake of trying to be like anyone else, your true success lies in who you are, what individuals qualities you bring to the job/hobby/sport you choose.

We spend each and every day persuading individuals they can indeed reach their dreams, they can do great things but most of all do the things that they wrote on that “magic piece of paper”. I urge you never to give up on it.

Twitt
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Wednesday, 19th July

We are all imperfect, many of us never reach our true potential, and we are all trying to get better.

Most of our brains never work to anywhere their true potential, so these things help us make more out of ourselves.

Holding resentment for others holds us back dramatically, it consumes us so much that our brain can’t function to anywhere near where it needs to be. Leave it go, whatever it is and you immediately move forward in life.

Turn off the TV and read more stuff that’s going to help you. Most of the stuff on TV is not going to help you, it won’t change it’s life and following plot lines will keep you addicted for weeks, even months, whilst nothing changes in your life. Reading every day changed my life, and a lot of it is non-fitness related, giving yourself a deeper perspective on life will literally change the way you view the world.

Write each day, your aspirations and how you are going to change things. Life suddenly becomes more real when you write, you suddenly have a to do list. Put at least 2 productive things on that list that’s going to positively affect your life, and tick them off once you have done them or at the end of the day. This is a habit that makes you accountable to yourself and keeps a tight record on your progress.

Ship your product. Waiting for your work to be “perfect” is a never ending wait, and you will never get your work out. Life is a series of firing “bullets” until you get to fire your big “cannonball”. The bullets give us clues on what works and what doesn’t, and we develop confidence until we realise our product is getting better and actually works. Unless you keep having a go, you will never realise how great you can be.
Realise we are all imperfect, there will be never another one of you. Your DNA is different to everyone else, you have your own set of beliefs, values, thoughts and everyone can make their own impact on the world. Don’t try and be anyone else, when the world is really looking for an original, who does it their way, and your unique set of skills can change the world of someone who desperately needs help.

Put your hand up and have a go. You may have guessed by now that many people will try putting you off, but believe passionately that these people don’t control or own your life. Putting your hand up, getting a little bit better educated all the time and do your best can take you a long way. You may be imperfect like all of us but your individuality will be the critical difference in making a great life for yourself and others.

Twitt