Dont beat yourself up, whats done is done..... but keep in mind we only get one life, this is not a rehearsal, its short too!
" ONLY PUT OFF UNTIL TOMMOROW WHAT YOU ARE CONTENT TO DIE WITHOUT DOING." Picasso
I am 33 and back in school, always wanted to be a doctor and now I am just one year away from qualifying. To give you the perspective, I was 26 and miserable, broke and homeless, no decent qualifications, no direction, ex pioneer, ex bethelite and losing my religion..... I sought out the route to my dream and got on the road, every day is hard work but I am doing exactly what I dreamed of doing, seemed impossible at the time, totally impossible. I write this whilst in my hospital accomodation, working on the labor wards. Assisted 6 caesarians in the last few days.
I always wanted to invent something too, get a patent with my name on it, ever since I was a kid I wanted to design some technology that solved a problem. Again, how the hell was that going to happen right? Well I saw an issue in global healthcare, I drew up and designed a solution myself. I researched all the electronics and science in my 'spare' time (early hours) and taught myself CAD and animation. I took the designs and animations to my Russell Group university and they became my partner, over 4 years we have patented it, developed it with experts in many fields. We went to the health system and got approval for trials on the hospital wards, last week I secured £200,000 of investment for my inventions proof of concept trial. I gave away 0% of equity, we got the money from the government and a potential buyer of the invention and the university.
I am proud of what I have done,but I am not special, I am not clever, I am not different to anyone.... With both the medicsl degree and the invention, I was just determined and driven, I convinced myself that goals are achievable and set out to achieve them. Is it a coincidence that they have both happened? Am I that lucky? Or is that the key to success in our goals....... Just do them!
If you just get on with what you really want to do, your passion and determination will do the rest......
Keep in mind and remember, most people are too scared or indifferent to take these steps, they will tell you ALLLLLLL the reasons why not to do it, why to stay safe... All they are doing is telling you the reasons they do not chase dreams and goals. They are valid reasons , but only on the foregone conclusion that you will always fail. It is impossible for everyone to have their dreams fulfilled, but you can't score goals without taking shots and missing too. The first invention I drew up was no good as it was too similar to an old patent in another country, a design that was inferior to mine and yet legally there was nothing we could do. It looked like the end of the road and the commercial expert shook my hand and said goodbye..... But to me it just excited me that my idea was good enough that another person had thought of it AND patented it... I went away and designed a significantly better system that solved more problems and became an immensely more valuable idea. "Opportunity often comes disguised as misfortune or temporary defeat!" I went back with my new system and blew all the competition out the water, it was all new and patentable and the other kind of handshakes began!
If i had turned my back on my goal to invent at that first rejection, nobody would have blamed me, I had tutors and friends telling me I didn't have the time to spare,with becoming a doctor anyway. But its not about saving face or ego, its about achieving! I used that experience to learn more about HOW to achieve my goals and carried on. So even if you get closed doors early on and it will happen, it doesn't mean your dreams have failed, the game is over..... no way up....it means you have to try another route to the peak. Some people see an obstacle as a sign to turn back and go home, some see it as a helpful mechanism "you can't go up the mountain this way" hearing this you then you stop wasting time and seek the right route for your climb to the summit. There is always a way to succeed, it just may require you to be adaptable.
Every day, every hour that a person ponders the reasons why NOT to pursue a dream is another hour or day lost to the universe, never to be lived again. As i said initially, its a short one shot life.... Dont waste it being unhappy, don't part this privelaged experience with regret and what if's.....
Snare x
