When You Play Small, You Don’t Play At All

I spent 3 years trying to reinvent myself and realised the one thing that I should have been doing was the one thing I was running away from.

My career in the early years from 17 years of age was great, I had the ups and downs like anyone else but in the main I learned and enjoyed what I was doing, making progress.

By the time I was invited to be on my first board of directors I had experiences that very few my age would have in multiple careers.

I remember the chairman once asking me what’s my spend responsibility, I was 26, the value I had sole responsibility for was £14M, plus the company gross profit margin, I loved it, because I had no fear, no hesitation, the decisions were key and strategic and the best for the company (and the chairman’s take home money)

In 2022, now 41 years of age, I’d stacked the wins and made success startups and exited them all, but what to do next?

I wanted to help others enhance their career and business and their experiences … I really did want to help, but I made a mistake.

I played small, for the first time EVER in my life I was cautious, over calculated, looked at what others in the media, online friends and family were saying I should do, and that’s why I struggled in that arena, until I realised there was one simple thing I wasn’t doing which I’d always done before …

Use my personality. Lean into who I was, trust the gut, and think big. I always said “start small, but think big”.

That’s when everything started to fall into place, I’ve worked side by side with owners to build profit, as an employee, a partner, a director and now a contractor, consultant and mentor.

I build profit, big profit, always have, always will.

I build personality, big personality, always have, always will.

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