I had an email recently from a woman – let’s call her Carla – who explained how she felt like she couldn’t get behind the life she’d chosen for herself because she wasn’t confident in the choices she’d made.  She’d given up the corporate lifestyle for a new, more creative way of living but was constantly looking at other people and judging her choices as the wrong ones.

Having left her familiar world behind her and embarked on what she hoped would be a more fulfilling life, she felt trapped by her choices and had forgotten how to trust herself.

Like everyone who emails me, I wrote back to her with a few ideas.

She replied to tell me that one thing I said to her made the biggest difference and stood out above everything else, and on the off-chance it could make a difference to you too, here it is.

“You’re always able to make a new choice – you’re life isn’t constrained by the choices you’ve made in the past, it’s constrained by the choices you’re not making right now.”