Hint: it’s not spiders

Steve had worked the same job for 20 years, I asked him if he was happy with his pay and he responded: “I haven’t had a pay rise in 14 years.”

This means he’d been going to the same office, in the same open-plan section, at the same time, 5 days per week for 2 decades.

Assuming he took two weeks holiday each year, he’d spent 1,000 weeks of his life working for someone else and had not increased his own value or skills in the last 14 years.

It’s at that moment I knew what my biggest fear was… Mediocrity.

• Settling for something because it’s there and never living up to my full potential.

• Getting complacent with a career or opportunity that doesn’t put increasing value in me as an individual.

There’s nothing scarier than working to live, or ‘living for the weekend’. Doing something so consistently that it’s almost autonomous. There’s no challenge and there’s certainly no reward.

Unfortunately, my biggest fear is normal life for most people you know.