I’ve lived most of my life with the belief that I’d die at the age of 39, like my father and his father did. I believed it was written in my genes and that there was nothing I could do about it.

I had accepted this as a fact of life and every time I sat down and made plans for my future, I kept hearing a little voice saying: “What’s the point?”

I always listened to that voice; it had become my irrefutable excuse for not taking responsibility and control over my life.

Obviously, with such an approach, I grew up feeling very disempowered and had a tendency to let others make decisions for me. At least, this way, when things went wrong I had someone to blame.

Of course, I wasn’t doing all this consciously, so you can imagine what a great surprise it was for me when on the day of my 39th birthday I woke up in my bed, still alive and kicking.

My entire belief system crashed and crumbled in a few moments. There it was, in front of my own eyes, the great realisation that if I wanted to live the life I truly deserved, my destiny could not be in anyone else’s hands but mine.

There and then I understood, or more accurately, I accepted that I couldn’t blame anything or anyone: I had been the thinker and the maker, the visionary and the orchestrator of what had happened to me so far.

And if that was true for my past it must also be true for my present and future!

Now, isn’t it the most empowering feeling knowing that your life is in your hands, and that you can shape it as you like?

If the answer in your heart is a big loud YES, then you might be interested in my upcoming webinar.

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