*Break out of the box!* When you have confidence in your vision of your future, you can disregard the nay-sayers and move forward towards your goals. If you wait for everyone to approve, agree with you and applaud you, you’ll get nowhere. There was a time when people thought the earth was flat, and that man would never walk on the moon. In 1899 the U.S. Patent Office almost closed because the commissioner, Charles H. Duell, said, ‘Everything that can be invented has been invented.’ In retrospect this statement is ridiculous but some of us have this same mindset. We stop learning because we think we’re too old. We’re afraid to change careers in case we jeopardise our pension. We don’t pursue our dreams in case we fail or get ridiculed. We’re so used to self-imposed limitations and telling ourselves, ‘I can’t do that,’ that we think we can’t do anything. In essence, we’ve built a box, crawled inside of it and now we’re looking for something or someone to blame for our lack of fulfilment and an empty life. Remember that no one boxed you in; you did! So you need to take the initiative for breaking out. Today decide to do it and you will at last experience the freedom to do what you were born to do!