The most important thing in making your dream come true

Hi there, good morning, good morning. I hope your Easter Monday is going well. It's a very blustery day up here in Yorkshire. We've had a rather different Easter, lots of Zoom family, friend get-togethers, lots of get-togethers on Zoom, and I've been taking a lot of stick from my friends about my hat and my videos, but I keep going. Somehow I keep going. I have moments when I think, no, maybe I should stop, but no, I keep going. And that kind of leads into today's story, really. I wanted to tell you about a little girl called Megan that I met about 6 years ago. And she, she was in a class that I was running in her school. And I also had a chance to talk to her and her friends after that, a couple of months after that session. And what she said always I talk about it quite a lot because what she said to me sends chills down my spine in a good way and it really inspires me. She had a dream, her dream was to run an American diner and she was told by an adult that should have known better that it was a stupid idea. And the realization that she had, that she shared with me, is that she could ignore that person that told her that she couldn't make her dreams come true. So she was 10, and if she hadn't had that realization, She would have gone through the rest of her life thinking that her dream wasn't a possibility. And how many of us, how many of us have had our dream dampened down? How many of us have stopped doing something because of what other people have said, what other people have done, what other people haven't done? How many of us? Have you? And I struggle, I struggle because I'm talking to you as a parent, as an adult, And I'm talking to the kids, and I really, I really struggle because the kids are so easy to talk to about this stuff. And as adults, we're so stuck and set in our ways, and we can't see how— yeah, we can't, we can't see how the How we get in our own way is, I think, one of the ways that people talk about this, and I get in my own way too, all the time. Yeah, all the time. I get in my own way at 4 o'clock in the morning when I'm thinking about stuff and whether I should keep on going with this stuff because it's It's tricky, you know. Do all this stuff on Facebook, get the odd comment and get the odd word of encouragement, get the mickey taken out of me, you know. And it's tricky. And I have periods when I think, ah, just Jacket and do something else. But it keeps on bringing— it keeps on coming back to me. You see, I'm inspired by how quickly kids change. I'm totally inspired by that. They inspire me. I was going into their schools to inspire them, but they inspire me. And I'm either mad or I'm ahead of my time. Maybe I'm both. Maybe I'm both. Maybe I'm just mad. Maybe this is— one of the Zooms we did at the weekend was on On Saturday with a good friend of mine, Mike, and his daughter Sophie was one of the first purple— the first children I trained. I tried my kind of my kidspirational ideas, this idea of the of the juicer that became the comic that I wrote, Jack Sharrock and the Juicer, and the inspiration for the stuff that I do in schools, the juicer activities that I run in schools. And her and her little friend Gracie— and this is going back 7 years, coming up 7 years ago now— they loved this idea. And she's 16 now, It's Sophie, and she loved this idea, and she really helped me in the early stages develop the idea, so thank you, thanks a lot, Sophie. That's brilliant, you know, she's a total star. A couple of months back, I went to speak to her again afterwards, and she was asking me how it was going. And I said, well, it's funny because adults just don't get this. And she said, well, well, Uncle Simon, you created the juicer for kids, not grown-ups. And it's like so obvious, you know, it's so obvious that what is created, what's created, something that's created for kids isn't going to be understood by adults in the same way as something that's created for adults isn't going to be understood by kids. But we all know deep down that success is a feeling, that happiness is a feeling, that confidence is a feeling. That resilience is a feeling, that being feelings, as these are feelings, are an inside job. How scary, how scary is the coronavirus when we're not thinking about it? How scary is it? Well, it's not scary at all. It's not scary at all. It's not scary at all because we're only scared by what's going on in our heads. And it's like gravity. That's like gravity. It's the truth. The truth is always true. The truth is always true. It doesn't change. Gravity is true. Gravity is a fact. If I drop this pen, it's going to drop. Let go, this pen is going to drop down. And your feelings only ever come from your thoughts. That's the only place they ever come from. You're not aware of those thoughts. I'm not aware of those thoughts. None of us can be aware of those thoughts. We have 70,000 thoughts a day. So if it's just the thought inside us, then we shouldn't then there's no need to be scared of a thought that's inside us. I had a fantastic, fantastic podcast from a mentor of mine yesterday, Michael Neill, and the question was, should I be scared? As in, should I be scared of the coronavirus? And I asked a friend of mine this, you know, should we be scared about the coronavirus? Yes, yes, yes. Well, why? Well, because that will spark us to do stuff. Our fear drives what we do. When does, when does, when does feeling scared help? There's a difference between how we feel and what we What we do. So I'm only scared about the coronavirus when I think about what how it could how it could impact me and how it could hurt the ones that I love and how if my mum got it she's eighty two coming up it could kill her it could kill her that's that thought is scary. But I don't need to be scared to do something. We don't need to be scared to take precautions. We just need to take precautions, don't we? That's all we need to do because the feeling is inside us. The feeling is inside us. The feeling comes from our thought. The thought I should give up on inspiring kids. Happens, that thought comes to me all the time and sometimes I look at different, doing different stuff, but I keep going because the most important thing to making your dream come true is to keep going and to be flexible. in what you do, to change what you do. So I know right now I need to do something differently because I want to inspire the world and I'm not, I'm not doing it. I'm a couple of thousand views on the videos and stuff, very few comments. Most people think I'm a little bit nuts, but am I, am I nuts or am I ahead of my time or am I both? I don't know. Maybe you can tell me your opinion. I'm only 11 minutes. People telling me, keep on telling me to do shorter, shorter videos. Well, yeah, try through a few shorter videos, but I get to the point, get to my point. Tell me what I should do. Tell me what I should do. Well, I can't tell you what you should do. I can only tell you how how things work. I could tell you to stay safe, but how you do that? Yeah. So a bit of philosophical one today. Probably lost most people. Got two people still watching me. It was five at one stage. Probably gone a little bit too long. Yeah, most important thing to make your dream come true, there's 2, oh, there's one, I'll make it into 2. Keep going flexibly, do something different. I need to do something different, I don't know what it is I'm going to do differently yet. Hopefully that will come to me. Have a great Easter Monday. Cheers. Bye-bye.