On one occasion I interviewed the super-inspiring head of a girls’ school. She wore leopard-print stilettos, knew every girl in the school by name and when she spotted a pupil using her mobile phone during school hours (strictly forbidden) showed her supreme displeasure by raising an eyebrow just ever so slightly. She was one of the most impressive people I’d met in a long time.
But quite apart from the shoes and the raised eyebrows, the thing that’s stuck in my mind ever since is the advice she gave to her pupils.
“If you want to do something then set your mind to it and make it happen,” she told them. “Think ‘I can and I will succeed.’”
The idea sounded like Just William’s arch enemy Violet Elizabeth Bott (“I’ll thcream and thcream ‘till I’m thick”) stamping her foot to get her own way but I reckon there’s something in it. So here are my aims and objectives for the day. I’m going to write two articles, finish my new e-book, research a press release and book my car in for a service.
Will the plan work? Hmmm, I’m not so sure…
