When I was a teenager dreaming of “what I want to be when I grow up” I never could have imagined where I am today. I had some very grand dreams and ideas – but they didn’t match where I am today and what I am doing. I never would have thought I would be a property developer. I NEVER even thought about being an educator and showing people how to create wealth in their lives. These are things that I never even `they have turned out.

One constant through out my life, I have never, ever put myself in a box. I never thought of myself as being limited to a specific industry, I didn’t carefully plan exactly how things would happen, I haven’t given myself labels and I haven’t tried to follow a very specific path to get a very exact outcome. And if I did box myself in, life would have probably knocked me out.

Those of you who know me know that my life has been quite an adventure with all sorts of vias, craziness, fun, mistakes and successes. And I am thankful for every single via and mistake – because as I type I am really quite happy with my life and where it has led me today. One of the lessons I have learnt from this is that there are some things that you just can not plan. Now my staff will all tell you that I am an organization freak, I love a good plan. But I plan for day to day or week to week. I am not limiting myself to next year because I have learnt that there are things that could happen that are outside of my imagination and beyond what I may think possible. And I have some big thoughts!

But I think that there needs to be an element of surprise, of adventure and there needs to be room to move. Everyday you should be growing, flourishing and prospering. So what you think is “BIG” today may not be so big tomorrow.

Leave yourself some room to absorb the unknown and travel the road less traveled.