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So, I want to get you all 
involved in my talk today.

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and we are going to test out
a little experiment.

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but in order for me to do that,
I need somebody to come up here

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and join me on the stage.

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So please, can I have a volunteer?

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Don't all run at once.

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So, you can come 
and join me up here with Ted.

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We can have a little cup of tea together.

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Anyone? Come on!

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You just come up, whoever wants,
I am not going to pick anyone.

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Someone has to come up,


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and there are volunteers down here,
to bring you up onto the stage.

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Oh, here's somebody.

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(Applause)

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It's a bit of an obstacle course, I think,

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but I promise it's worth it.

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(Laughter)

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Poor person.

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Woo, thank you.

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What's your name?


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Volunteer: Ian.

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Carrie Green: Ian, thank you so much Ian

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I have something for you,
you just won £20.

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There you go, thank you so much,
you can go, sit back down now.

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A big round of applause!

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(Applause)

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So, my question to you is this:

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Why didn't you volunteer?

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What stopped you from coming up here?

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(Laughter)

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My guess is that was probably
for one of these reasons;

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Fear.

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Fear of coming up here in front 
of nearly 1000 people.

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It's pretty damn scary.

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Or maybe it was fear of the unknown,
because you had no idea

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what I was going to get you to do.

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Maybe you thought,

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"She might ask me to do something
I'm not able to do,

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and I'll look like a complete prat."

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Or maybe it was because of obstacles.

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There are a lot of obstacles in this room.

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Maybe you're at the back,
and you just thought,

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"I'm so far away, it's dark,
there're a lot of tables in my way,

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I'll probably fall over some
of them like a fool,

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and I just can't do it,
it's too difficult,

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someone else will have 
to volunteer for me."

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Or maybe it was just lack of motivation.

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Maybe you just couldn't be bothered
to move and come up here.

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But no matter what your reason was,
your decision started up here;

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in your mind.

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Because the moment I said,
"Please, can I have a volunteer?"

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Thoughts will have started 
flooding into your mind.

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That little voice inside your head
would have started talking to you,

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and maybe for some of you, it was saying,

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"Oh god, what is this girl
going to get us to do?

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I don't want to go up there,

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please, don't make us do 
anything really stupid."

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And then, maybe for some other people,

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maybe for some other 
people you were thinking,

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maybe down at the front you were like,

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"Oh gosh, I don't want 
to do this, look away,

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avoid eye contact, avoid eye contact,
then she won't pick me!"

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And then maybe for some of you 
the moment I said,

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"Please, can I have a volunteer?"

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Maybe, fear, doubts, and worry
just flooded through you

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at the prospect of actually
coming up here,

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of coming up here in front 
of so many people.

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And then, for those of you
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you were thinking 
something entirely different.

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You were thinking things maybe like,
"Oh, she wants a volunteer,

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I wonder what she's going to get us to do,
how exciting, I'll do it"

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Or maybe some of you thought,

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"Oh my gosh this is really awkward,
no one is volunteering,

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so I'm going to have to step up and do it"

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But for those of you 
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you missed out on the chance to win £20.

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But this experiment isn't about the money.

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This experiment demonstrates 
the power of your mind.

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The fact that what is going on
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has such a huge impact on 
the actions that you take,

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on the decisions you make,
and the things that you experience.

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And it's not just in silly 
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when people miss out
amazing opportunities.

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People are missing out on incredible 
opportunities all of the time.

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because of what is going on their head,

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because they are making bad decisions
based off a really bad frame of mind.

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You know, those kind 
of self-limiting thoughts like:

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"I can't do that",

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"I'm not good enough",

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or, "I don't have the time or the money".

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Or maybe it's that you think,

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"I can't be bothered;
I'll just do it tomorrow".

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But then, you never do it,

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and so these wonderful ideas,
and these incredible potentials

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stay locked up inside,
and you never do anything with them.

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and that is exactly what was happening
to me a few years ago.

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It was the summer of 2005,
and I had just finished studying

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my full first year of law
at the University of Birmingham.

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I had completely run out of money,
and I was like, what am I going to do?

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So I started to look around for jobs,

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and I was looking around and found
absolutely nothing appealing.

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So, I was looking around 
for more opportunities,

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and eventually found this opportunity.

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It was to start my very own 
mobile phone unlocking business

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which basically meant 
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and it was locked to a certain network,

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and say you want to go
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and use an Australian sim card,

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you could come to the website 
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There were just a few massive 
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first, I didn't know 
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beyond the fact that they
made calls and sent texts,

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let alone mobile phone unlocking.

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And I had no idea how to build 
an online business.

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But the only other opportunity
was to sell sweets at Cirque du Soleil.

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so I was like sell sweets 
at Cirque du Soleil,

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or start my own business.

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So, I went with the idea
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it sounded a way more adventurous.

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So, I got started,
and I realised really quickly,

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that when you don't have 
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the only thing you can do
is ask for help, and that is what I did.

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So, I asked for help and within
a few short weeks,

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I put together probably 
the world's worst website.

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I discovered Google AdWords
as a way to drive traffic to the website,

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and with a credit card
and spending a limit of £30 a day,

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my business was officially up and running.

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Then over the next couple of years,
when I wasn't studying for my degree,

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I was learning how to build this business;

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I was reading books,

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I was listening to audio programs,

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and in my final year,
I went to night school

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to learn more about web development.

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I graduated in 2007 
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and a business that was flying.

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And I decided that being an entrepreneur

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was going to be way more fun 
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So I set my sights high 
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- to take the business global -

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to build a successful global business.

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So, we got a new supplier based in America

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who can unlock practically 
every phone under the sun.

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We redid the website,
we expanded the team,

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we got real good at online marketing,

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and within a few years, we were receiving

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over 100 000 hits
to the website every month.

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And we were selling thousands 
and thousands of codes every single month,

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and I had reached my goal
to build a successful global business.

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But there was one massive problem.

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I was miserable.

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I was running this business
predominantly from my home office,

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where I lived in an apartment; my second 
bedroom was turned into an office.

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And I felt completely lonely,
totally isolated and lost.

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Something that I think 
so many people experience

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but not very many of us talk about.

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And I crumbled.

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I started to question everything
and I started to think questions like:

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What am I doing?

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What is the point of all of this?

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The more I thought about those
questions, the more confused I felt.

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And the more confused I felt,

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the more these negative thoughts 
which cloud my mind,

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the more I began to doubt everything,
and worry about everything,

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and just question everything.

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And as the months rolled by,
I became more and more negative,

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more and more self-defeatist,

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and literally, this positive optimistic
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had just disappeared.

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I'd become totally negative 
and self-sabotaging.

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I'd come up with ideas,

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I'd shoot them down,
I'd talk to myself out of it.

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Then it got to 2010 and I felt like 
I was in complete despair.

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And so I packed my bags 
and I went travelling to Australia

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in the hope of having an epiphany.

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Spent three months traveling 
around Australia, no epiphany,

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and I was just like: 
what am I supposed to do?

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So then I came back to the UK, and well,
even more miserable than before,

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because all of my problems 
were still waiting for me,

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and the weather was rubbish.

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Then I was like, "What am I going to do?"

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So the next few months, I found myself
being suffocated by my problems.

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you know where you feel like
you can't get rid of these doubts

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and these worries 
and it was all I'd focus on.

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I'd come up with ideas,
I'd find opportunities,

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and I'd just talk myself out of it,
thinking that I couldn't do it.

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And then finally, in 2011,
I figured out where I was going wrong.

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And I believe I was going wrong 
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the first reason was that
yes, I wanted to be successful,

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and quite frankly,

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doesn't every single person 
in this room wants to be successful?

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But mobile phone unlocking
was not my dream.

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At the time, I was reading this book
by Michael Gerber called "The E-Myth",

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and in "The E-Myth",
there is a chapter on primary aims.

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Michael Gerber says:
Imagine walking into a room;

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sat in the room,
are your friends and family,

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and as you walk down the center
of the room, you see a box.

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And as you get to the front of the room
you realize that you are in the box,

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and it's your funeral.

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And he says, "What kind of things
do you want people to be saying

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about the kind of life that you lived,


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about the kind of person that you were,

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and the kind of things that you achieved?"

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And I realized, I had no idea.

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So there was no wonder 
that I felt so off track.

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I had never ever been on track

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And the second reason 
why I think went wrong,

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is because of what was going on up here;
what was going on in my head.

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All these doubts, all these worries,
all this self-limiting belief.

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I came across a quote 
by Anthony Robbins that said,

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"Your destiny is determined by the choices
you make. Choose now. Choose well."

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And I realized that I was 
responsible for this misery;

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I was responsible for the fact 
that I was stuck in a rut.

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I remember looking at my life thinking
I am waking up every single day

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and focusing on my problems.

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I am waking up every day and giving
so much focus and attention

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to all of these awful thoughts,
these doubts, and these worries.

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I am coming up with ideas
and I am shooting them down,

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I am talking myself out of doing
anything whatsoever.

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And I realized that if I wanted
to live an incredible life

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and achieve amazing things,
- and I really did -

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that I had to get my mind to be 
on the same wavelength as me.

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I realized that I had to figure out 
what it was that I wanted to achieve;

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why I was wanted to achieve it,
why it actually meant something to me.

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I had to figure out the kind of person
that I needed to become,

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in order to make it happen.

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And then, I had to program 
my mind to make it happen.

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I had to program my mind for success.

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And that is exactly what I ended up doing,

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"Mission Success" began.

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And so I started this off by thinking 
about: what do I actually want?

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And so I looked at my life and I thought,
"I love being an entrepreneur,

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I love coming up with ideas 
and turning them into reality

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it is so much fun."

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And then looked 
at my problems and thought,

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"I feel really lonely and lost 
as an entrepreneur."

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And I looked at them with 
a different perspective.

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Rather than feeling bad about it,
I thought, "What can I do about it?

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There must be other people out there that
are in exactly the same position as me."

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So I came up with this idea to create 
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and it sounded so official.

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And I was doing it,
and I had this massive idea,

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of thousands of women 
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and help to inspire them and connect them

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and just help to empower them 
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But I had no idea, 
how I was going to do this.

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Then I was like, "Right, I need to program
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of the things I was thinking every day,

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and whenever I caught myself 
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"Carrie, who is going to come
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This is rubbish,
this is a ridiculous idea,

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you're never going to be able to do it."

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Every time I caught myself saying
something like that,I would stop myself,

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and I realized that I had the power 
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rather than letting them control me.

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I knew that I could stop myself 
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And I did,

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I replaced the negative rubbish 
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and told them to shut up,

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and I replaced them with positive 
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thoughts that were actually helping me
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I also started to listen 
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to program my subconscious
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And I got really into doing visualizations

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vividly picturing what I wanted 
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and then feeling it happen, like
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just like all the top athletes do.

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I got so clear on what
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and since then my life 
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I've built one of the largest online
networking groups of female entrepreneurs,

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with over 100 000 women involved.

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And then I came up with this crazy 
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which then became the fastest growing 
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When I created it, I made
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of all the people I wanted 
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these best-selling authors,
these incredibly successful entrepreneurs.

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I had no idea how I would make it happen,
but I was so convinced it would.

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I then put their faces
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printed them off and stuck them 
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and just visualized them
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visualized what it would 
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I'd send out an email to my network.

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this person's on the front cover 
this month, how exciting!"

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I got so unbelievably clear 
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People would come up to me and say,

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"How are you going
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I was like, "I don't know, 
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And it did happen,

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So then I thought,

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"What other crazy goals
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What else is possible?"

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So I set more crazy goals for myself.

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I was like, "I want to go 
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I want to go to the House of Lords,
I want to speak at the House of Commons."

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And I set more crazy goals for myself.

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And last year every single one 
of them happened.

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And I realized that if I could 
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that I could make something happen,

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that somehow I would figure out
a way, and I always have.

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Because success is no accident.

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Living an incredible life is no accident.

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You have to do it on purpose.

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and it starts by knowing exactly 
what is it that you want to achieve,

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knowing why you want to achieve it,

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knowing the kind of person that you 
need to become in order to make it happen,

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and then programming
your mind to make it happen.

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Because you just have one life
in which to achieve everything,

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that you are going to achieve,
so you have to act accordingly.

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Thank you so much.

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(Applause)