That’s me in 1995 before my first day of work after university, working in marketing in London England. I felt like the man in my new suit with my fresh briefcase. My life was going exactly as planned: I had a corporate job with a decent pay-check and I was on my way to taking the advertising world by storm and running a huge advertising agency one day.
Almost 20 years later, this is what I actually do: motivational speaking and coaching on the topic of Courage. Not a damn thing about advertising. I could never have predicted this path, and I sure as hell didn’t plan to be as bald as an eagle.
The point is this: we cannot predict how things will turn out. And that’s a good thing. We always need to have goals and targets – something to aim at – but we have to understand that they might change. Any company who makes a long-term plan and sticks to it to the letter, will go out of business. The same is true for you. Things change. YOU change.
So have a plan, but be open to it changing. Let go of the need to know everything all the time. Embrace the unknown – that’s where creativity happens. Have the balls to change and adapt – nothing in nature survives without doing that.
Change is scary, but so are regrets.
