Be proud of your ambitions and make them come true!

Sharing our dreams and goals with others can bring us closer to realising them. But why do we find this so difficult, asks Katie Scott, and how can we move past it to open up and achieve?

- By Katie Scott

It was a slightly silly conversation on the way home from the cinema. The four of us had been to see Top Gun: Maverick and were giddy on nostalgia and sweets. It started with my husband admitting he would have loved to have been a fighter pilot. This was if life hadn’t taken him down a different path. We all then chimed in with our once-fervently-held ambitions. It was a moment of warmth and camaraderie – friends, and parents of a collective brood of seven, comfortable sharing that we had once wanted something different from what we have now.

I am incredibly lucky. I always wanted to write, and this is what I spend the majority of my days doing. Life has dictated, however, that I am not putting pen to paper by torchlight in the corner of a bunker while missiles fly overhead; as unappealing as that sounds to most people, that was my dream from a very young age. I wanted to be Kate Adie, bringing the world’s attention to stories of suffering and strength. My ambition was based, I’ll admit, on an overly romanticised view of being a special correspondent. Now, as a mother of four, that kind of journalism – the Pulitzer Prize-winning kind – just isn’t on my radar. This isn’t a bid for sympathy. It was a decision that I made, not one that was forced upon me.