I got a sad email today from a person who believed that I shouldn’t encourage everyone that they can achieve anything they want. They believed that some people simply don’t have it in them to be successful. They asked: “How are you going to believe that Tom that works in a factory, broke and without a good education is going to succeed?” My answer: I see it everyday. Most all of my entrepreneur friends came from nothing. No rich uncles to pass down wealth, they didn’t have the genius of Steve Jobs. Heck half of them never went to college! They are regular everyday people that went after their goals and succeeded. Pessimists are the great destroyer of our world. They see the bad side in everything. They view the world through grey colored glassed and never see a brighter future. They neglect to ever take chances or try new things because they are live in a world of fear. Pessimists are also some of the starkest critics and hate to see someone to succeed. When someone succeeds they have something to compare their own mediocre lives to. Have you ever met a successful pessimist? I doubt it.

I am a firm believer that inside every person there lies a king. To a few, this king is full of life with the world within its grasp. In others, it lies dormant just waiting to be unleashed. I believe we all have it inside of us to become something incredible. If we could only discover it within ourselves, then our possibility could be endless. However, it’s us that must make the decision of whether or not to search for it.

I believe that no matter who you are, where you were born, what your parents were like, what your circumstances are, there is only one limit on your entire future, YOU. One of my favorite authors and mentor, Mark Qualm puts it this way: If you permit life to walk over you, or worse, just pass you by, you deserve it. You are not a helpless pawn, at the mercy of forces out of your control. You are exactly the opposite. You are you, and only you can CREATE your future. Do not let life happen to you, create the life you deserve.

We live in a world with limitless opportunity. It’s out there, you just have to find it by letting out your inner king. I have personally seen the most undereducated, poorest people find riches and success. They aren’t superhuman, they didn’t have advantages, they simply saw a better world for themselves. They let out their inner king. Recently, I met with Ryan Blair for dinner. Ryan is a serial entrepreneur, multimillionaire that came from nothing. His father was a drug addict, sisters and brothers were in and out of jail. He had ZERO advantages. Yet he saw something more in himself. He let his inner king. Inside of you is the ability to become anything you want. You just have to let it out.