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We all have a choice. We create our own reality, so if we are having a bad time, it is likely to be our fault and nobody else’s. We can’t control the world but we can control the way we perceive it and react to it. This belief is core to creating freedom through opportunities. When we feel that we have become victims through circumstance, and believe that people are ganging up against us, we remain stuck.

When at last I realized that every day is just perfect and that my challenge is to be able to see it as so, my whole perspective changed. Each day may be perfect in creating motivation, perfect in teaching me something or perfect in restoring energy; in any case it is still perfect. It is neither wrong or right; good or bad. It just is. With this in mind, I made the decision to be engaged, energized and optimistic about my opportunities. I was in control, I had choice. The game had begun.

I had managed to get off the merry-go-round and this helped me to see things with clarity, realize the world’s immense possibility. I learnt that we all have the gift of creative imagination, but we have never been taught to use it properly.

Creativity has to be of some benefit. Some impact. All too often our imaginations are only employed in the field of dreams. By dreaming we don’t advance our lives, we just live in an escapist world. What I was now doing was applied dreaming, creating a focus that meant my creative efforts were not merely whimsical but productive. I was creating my options for the next stage of my life – my future!

As I considered my options, sometimes I would become distracted by shiny, pretty things; opportunities that looked attractive but when I dug a little deeper, I would realize that their attraction was superficial. For example, the worlds of film, television and music have always seemed incredibly sexy to me, but if you look beneath the surface, those industries are no more rewarding than hundreds of others. For every person in these businesses who enjoys the ideal life of glamour, fame and pure self-expression, there are countless others on the hamster wheel of life; doing what others want them to, working harder than they’d like to, with colleagues they wouldn’t ideally choose and feeling thoroughly unfulfilled. Having said that, it is possible to have a fabulous life working in any career, as long as you are in it for the right reasons, where you can be true to yourself, where it is not just another stepping stone towards happiness.