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YOU

While you have been reading I’ve found out something about you. You are an amazing, wonderful unique individual. You can do things the rest of us could only dream of doing. You can think vast thoughts, do grand things and achieve greatness. You’re brilliant, you are! Is there any chance of you sharing some of that brilliance?

Most people at some time in their lives look at others and think, ‘If I had what they had then I’d do more.’

The point is, people have looked at you and thought that.

Here are two stories of people who found how to give a bit of ‘you’.

Carole, the talking book

Carole was 63 before she realised she had an amazing skill. All through her life Carole was happy to play small: in her marriage, as a mother and in her ...

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