17Ignite Your Entrepreneurial Instincts

Most people are walking around, umbilical cord in hand, looking for a new place to plug it in.

Cavett Robert, Founder of the National Speakers Association

 

‘You are the leader of your life, and you always have been…’

The insight hit me like a ton of bricks. I'd been working as a programme manager, leading multi-million-pound business transformation projects for five years. It was a good job but I felt stuck. Some of my friends had left their jobs to go self-employed or start their own businesses, but I was convinced that ‘doing my own thing’ wasn't possible for me. I didn't question why; it just seemed true.

Everything changed one weekend in 1998 when I attended a workshop to improve my influence ...

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