Keep Believing: The Power of Positive Thinking

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I left school at 16 and went straight into the workplace. I didn’t want to go further into education because I had been relentlessly bullied my whole school life and couldn’t face studying any longer. At school, I had been made to feel worthless.

I felt like a nobody, but once I found myself in the workplace, I realized it was a world where people were kind and respectful. I knew that’s where I wanted to be.

My first job was a six-month temporary position as a receptionist for a children’s fashion company in the West End of London. When the six months were up, I found a job in a public relations company, and from there, I worked at various companies. I worked my way up in the secretarial field, and in 1987, I landed a position at the International Institute For Strategic Studies, also in the West End of London.

The company dealt with worldwide military strategies and also produced its own books. I was a Personal Assistant to a Colonel and ran an office of five military personnel, but I also…