"Sometimes I wonder how many things could have gone differently."

I'm a firm believer that awesome always finds a way, but I love these stories of seemingly small decisions ("I could’ve spent the $500 on something other than a Rift. I could’ve stayed in bed") being major turning points in someone's life.

For me, a pivotal moment was Stanley Kubrick's removal of A Clockwork Orange from circulation in the 1970s, and its subsequent posthumous re-release in 2000. My university cinema had a showing one night; this gave me time to kill on campus after the library closed; during which time I saw a job-board ad for work in a real estate firm.

The job led to a management position post-graduation, which turned into State Operations Manager for a large franchise group, which turned into the business coaching career I've had for almost a decade.

If Kubrick hadn't pulled the film? If he had died a year earlier? Maybe I would have leveraged my journalism degree into that profession instead? From little things, big things grow...