Do you remember the dreams you had as a kid? The ones I referred to when you started this course?

Let's look at those in more detail. 

You see, without a compelling dream to work towards, there really is no reason to work on your talent, discipline yourself, put up with a job that possibly sucks, work with strange people only to have to do this for the rest of your life. Life is not a criminal sentence. 

We are human "beings" not human "doings". Life is meant to be lived.

Friedrich Nietzsche describes this beautifully when he said "He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how." This basically means if you have a good enough reason you can put up with any sh*t.

In Lewis Carol's famous book, Alice in Wonderland he touches on exactly the same principle: 

One day Alice came to a fork in the road and saw a Cheshire cat in a tree. ‘Which road do I take?’ she asked. ‘Where do you want to go?’ was his response. ‘I don’t know,’ Alice answered. ‘Then,’ said the cat, ‘it doesn’t matter.

So what is your "why"? What do you really want to do with your life?

This was the question that confronted me 12 years ago as I walked the Fish Hoek (Cape Town) shoreline. I really struggled to find an answer but I did make a decision; I decided that I was never too old to have a happy childhood...meaning that it was never too late for me to create the life I always imagined for myself, regardless of the circumstances.

But I would have to know what I was working towards. So this is what I did.