Mark Simpson recalls a mantra from a pub chalkboard: "One small step in the right direction can be the biggest step of your life." He left his corporate job and moved 130 miles to start over, proving the saying true.
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And the final question we love to ask is, is there a saying or a mantra which resonates with you and has helped your journey?
I think the one that I actually put in the book, which was something that was written, and I hadn't heard it before, but it was written on a chalkboard in the pub that we were staying in when we were filming Escape to the Country. And it was, if I won't get it, probably word perfect. But one small step, it in the right direction can be the biggest step of your life. Tiptoe if you must, but take the step. And I think we for years, in a way, we wish we'd done this 10 years earlier. You talk yourself out of it, you always have doubts. Leaving a safe corporate job, moving 130 miles to somewhere where you don't know a single person, was a massive step.