Do What You Want To Do.

There are so many options in life, it's a little scary. If you lose 'I can't do that' from your vocabulary then this sudden, glorious world opens up to you. It's huge and immense, scary in a way. Perhaps that's why we like 'I can't do that' – it lessens that fear, it gives us boarders and parameters to live by. 

But what if the world suddenly opened up and you could do anything you wanted to? What if?

The reality is, is that the world is like that. There are too many stories of a physician becoming a movie star, or a welder becoming a sports star, of a stay at home mom becoming a tightrope walker, for it not to be true. We all know that 'when you follow your dreams' good things come.

But what does that actually mean?

I think we have to understand that there are false dreams and real dreams. Any of us would want to be a famous movie star or a revered politician. Who wouldn't? But is it what you really want?

Each of us have highly specific dreams. Often buried under a lifetime of 'I can't do that' – if you manage to get down to what it is that you really want. Not what you spouse or parents or children or workmates or classmates want – what you want – then that big immense world we talked about – is yours.

You see those people that ring with happiness. I don't mean a false broad smiled greeting or a perpetual half smile to ward off danger. I mean those people that literally glow with it.

You know their secret?

They're doing what they want to.

What we need to do to open those gates to immense possibility – is to be a little more humble and a little more brave.

And do what you want to. What you want to.