I’m Ene Obi, an author, motivational speaker, coach and the founder of Ziano MindSpa.

For almost three decades I worked for renowned, global organisations, including Shell, HSBC, AstraZeneca, Visa, and Goldman Sachs – twenty years of which were spent in Human Resources – where I dedicated my time to the people, teams and cultures of the high-flying corporate world. I had what you could call dream jobs, with the pleasure of working with amazing people in some of the most enriching environments on the planet. On paper, I had a great life but in that journey, I lost myself. Amidst the excitement of being in the environments that I was in, the gratitude I felt for being able to impact people’s lives, I stopped impacting my life. One day it hit me – my dream had turned into a nightmare – and I needed to get back to my dream. For me to do that, I needed to get back to a place called Me.

Sometimes, for one reason or another, we stop ourselves from enjoying new experiences and exploring the possibilities of our life. Perhaps because we don’t want to disrupt the norm, we rule ourselves out of the life we can have. We play it safe. Or worse, we don’t play at all.