If You Could Tell Your Younger Self One Thing, What Would It Be?

Regrets?  Fabulous Memories?  Learnings?  If you look back over your life, are there certain things you would do differently?  What life lessons would you share with your daughter?  We asked 5 accomplished women what they would have told their younger self.

 

Geraldine Gallacher (above), Founder of The Executive Coaching Consultancy Ltd

I think I would have said make sure what you do is something that genuinely interests you.  If you are going to do something every day you really need to be interested in it.

Equally make sure you have a breadth of experience too.  Try different things to help to figure out what you want.

Hayley Tatum (Above), Senior Vice President, People, Asda

Have faith that it will work out in the end.  You may find yourself working early or late shifts, studying on the side and thinking, why am I doing this?  In the moment it doesn’t always make sense.

Take the work seriously not yourself.  At times, whether it was vanity or lack of confidence, I’d be worrying about what others thought about me and in doing so would hold back my opinions, be the last person to speak up in the room.

That feeling does fade, but takes time and encouragement.

Vicki Psarias (aka Honest Mum – Above), Acclaimed Blogger & Multi-Award-Winning TV Director

Be yourself.  Don’t allows others to shape and mould you or extinguish your light.  I have a big personality.  I’m loving and loyal and I know who I am.  I accept not everyone will ‘get me’ nor I, them and that’s OK.  It’s great getting older and a little bit wiser!

Judith Ward (Above), Award-Winning Hypnotherapist

To believe that anything is possible.  Don’t put a limit on what you want to achieve because you are a unique person.  There is no-one like you.  You don’t have to copy the crowd. Be yourself.

Kate Pankhurst, Author And Illustrator (one of Kate’s books, above)

Probably to stop talking yourself out of doing things and to put more stuff out there.  Don’t send an idea out there and sit around; I needed to be more pro-active.  I shouldn’t have waited around as much as I did!  I should have knocked on more doors.  I suppose I would have told myself to have the confidence to put my work out there and shout a bit more about it.