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You have to work hard for what you want to achieve and you have to set goals and dreams and really go for them.

Focused, hard work is the real key to success. Keep your eyes on the goal, and just keep taking the next step towards completing it. If you aren't sure which way to do something, do it both ways and see which works better.

Each of my career decisions has been very much about doing what I wanted to achieve in the role and then finding another challenge.

Understand the ways in which your hard work is going to be necessary to achieve the goals that you want.

Once you achieve one goal, you should be looking forward to trying to build onto the next thing, and not just getting comfortable with what you're doing.

When you've accomplished a certain amount in your career, you're not so focused on your ambitions.

For a long time, I thought it was all down to dedication, hard work, and visualising doing well - that worked for a bit, but then it stopped. I've realised you have to be more practical and mature to make things actually happen.

In my career the push has always been to take another step, to try something new.

I'm one of these very focused people when it comes to day-to-day work, and I'm trying not to think about what comes next so that I can stay very focused on what I'm doing now.