Who You Are

You are not the product of your circumstances. You are a composite of all the things you believe, and all the places you believe you can go...You can step out of your history and create a new day for yourself...Even if every bad thing that can happen to you, does. - Oprah

I am not one to quote- and conversely worship- Oprah but I stumbled on this quote from an old post I wrote several years back and it seemed to speak to me. However, I still did not quite understand it until a few days ago.

I learnt from this article to turn my thinking about the issues I have on its head and one of the things I came up with was going to make a presentation to an old but very influential friend of mine. Turns out it was the right nudging because I cannot explain how inspired I am after that meeting. There are friends who bring you down to earth and there are those who lift you high; but rarely do you find anyone who does both simultaneously and gloriously. I came for one conversation and I had several that left me believing that I can and I am. 

This friend of mine is the living, breathing, example of Oprah's quote above.  From practically nothing he has built in 3 years a full service agency to be reckoned with in the country and, more importantly, with structure and a system. Fighting head to head with the best established in the industry and winning more times than not. And he is still building and learning and building.

I am holding back from saying a lot  because there is so much I am processing. But I realised that I needed to document the occurrence hence this post. Oprah's words above are to be taken literally because they mean exactly what they sound like they mean. Just one visit and I am a believer in my own dreams.

You are where your mind wants to go. That is who you are.

(to be continued)