What Do I Want To Be - Insights From a Motivational Speaker

I had an aha moment when I was 17. More options were open to me with a lower academic ranking than many of my friends who had the highest rankings.

As they explained, their choice was Medicine or Engineering, both sharing the top entrance scores. There was an enormous expectation that you didn't waste your grades.

Even as a naive and pretty dumb 17-year-old, I could see these were two wildly different careers. Wouldn't you at least choose the one that interested you?

They were wonderful people and I hope their choice worked out for them.

I, on the other hand, felt I had the world at my feet. I went from...

-average shot to army sniper

-home movies to National Geographic cameraman

-fumbling card tricks to a professional magician

-never swinging a hammer to building a home

-high school dropout to published author

-business illiterate to building & selling a business

-stutterer to motivational speaker

Academic achievement is not destiny.

And I'm still working out what I want to be when I grow up.