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You’re Not Lost. You Just Need To Start.

7 pieces of life advice to a 20 year old from a 41 year old

Keir Wotherspoon
ILLUMINATION
13 min readOct 4, 2022

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“The most reliable way to predict the future is to create it” — Abraham Lincoln

Feeling lost and confused like you don’t know where you belong can be a difficult time in life.

At the age of sixteen, I left school with five GCSEs, (three Ds and two Es). My future looked bleak. No prospects, no qualifications to brag about, and no idea what I wanted to do in life.

I took a short-term job in a factory and then moved on to an apprenticeship in engineering. To say I’d prefer to be slicing my eyeballs with razor blades than studying engineering would be an understatement.

But I had no idea what else to do.

No clarity and confidence in my abilities or intelligence. But after four gruelling years, I got through it. Only to spend the next five years in the exact same soul-sucking job I had just qualified for.

But that’s not where the story ends…

I made an escape plan.

I would become a qualified personal trainer. And then I could spend my days helping people to get fit and healthy. I loved working out, so it was a…

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Keir Wotherspoon
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