Last week I attended a Business event at Harvey Nichols. Women Innovators and Disruption – How to be Revolutionary. The four speakers, Kelly Hoppen MBE, Julie Meyers MBE, Anita Barr, Group Buying Director Harvey Nichols and Michelle de Klerk, Founder of Women’s Chapter all did a brilliant job of speaking to the audience about how to silence your critics and simply follow your path without any apologies whatsoever. The message that stood out the most for me and that I wish to share with you are as follows:

1. Question everything
2. Stand by your choices
3. Make your own rules because you can never win by playing by somebody else’s rules
4. When it comes to promoting, managing yourself,  apply a premium instead of a discount.
5. Never apologise for being you.
6. Focus on the things that are important instead of focusing on everything
7. Eliminate the naysayers, the doubters, the downright awful from your universe, block them from Twitter, from your life
8. Play to your strengths rather than waste time fixing your weaknesses, why – because no matter how hard you work on your weaknesses, there will always be people so much better than you at it. Just focus on what you are great at, because ultimately we love what we are good at.
9. Get people to care about your problem if you want their money
10. The most amazing entrepreneurs are not necessarily the ones that are the most intelligent, they were just people that decided they were going to do something amazing with their lives. They conceived a vision in there mind, believed in it, developed a plan and executed that plan because everything starts in the brain.

Whilst we don’t yet know how the brain works to any level of depth, it is thought we only understand 10% *ref Scientific American we certainly know that once a human being decides on something, that is, ABSOLUTELY decides, then we act on that and amazing things begin happen.