I've always been about setting goals. Then when I had a near death experience at nineteen, it made it even more important to strive to achieve certain things.
Phil KeoghanThere are amazing teachers, but the system doesn't always allow them to address the individual needs of a child.
Phil KeoghanI try to encourage people to identify the things in life that they really want to do, so that over a period of time they can design or steer their life towards those things.
Phil KeoghanI once had a young musician come to me and say that he wanted to be a professional musician. I asked him to write his list. When he came back to me, the three things in his life he most wanted were: to be paid for his music; to travel around the world; to meet new people. We came to the decision, after thinking really creatively, that if he got a job on a cruise ship, he would fulfill those goals.
Phil Keoghan