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never went to college, I am not a millionaire, I haven't achieved all of my grandest dreams yet. And I don't have all the worldly possessions that I would like to have. However I strongly feel, inside, that I have already unlocked my innate potential. And this is because I have learned what is, for me, the most important lesson in life. And that is being and living right here, right now, in the present and enjoying it to most of my ability.

Unfortunately, the question, How to unlock your innate potential?' is a difficult one to answer, as it is a very personal journey. Each person might approach it in a different way. For me, I had to travel halfway around the world to learn the valuable lessons necessary to know who I am and how I can be of use to this world.

Straight out of high school, having absolutely no idea what to do with my life and feeling somewhat anxious about it, I decided to do the typical working holiday in London that most young Australians do these days. To save enough money, I worked as a legal secretary for 3 years and, at 21 years old, off I went. But, as London is swamped with Australians, it was very difficult to really live as a Londoner', to get a true understanding of this relatively different culture. I always felt as though I hadn't left my living room. It wasn't until I followed my future husband to Mexico that the true soul-searching began.

I spent three years living in this foreign city called Monterrey and, in a culture so completely different from your own, you quickly develop feelings of isolation and loneliness, despite people's efforts to embrace you. In the beginning, I resisted these feelings and searched heartily for fellow Aussies' only to find myself more and more alone. I was forced to look inside myself for inspiration and, after some time, I came to recognize that this was an opportunity for reflection. Who was I? Why was I always dreaming about something that would happen in the future? I realized that I was going through my youth with my eyes closed and missing everything! I had wanted to go home so much but I realized that I could no longer identify myself as one with my own culture, because I had developed beliefs and understandings from another. And an amazing thing happened; I learned to just be and enjoy. The feelings of anxiety that were always nagging at me about what I was going to do with my life, went away as I realized, this moment was the only one that mattered. And I learned to accept that everything that

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