Steve Miller and the team at ShareMyPair are offering players the opportunity to represent the brand in a selection process designed to reward talented players with a sponsorship deal.

Chicken Soup For The Soul co-creator, Jack Canfield, told me that I could do anything that I wanted to do. At the time, I was working as a manager in a rail freight company, and I had to admit, if I had been rubbing a lamp I wouldn’t have requested to be the best railwayman in the world.

At the time, I loved poker, so I rubbed my imaginary lamp and asked for a career playing cards. I think it was defective because I never did get to play cards. Instead, I ended up writing about other people playing cards.

But I didn’t complain.