Towards the end of a very successful career in the engineering manufacturing industry, Mike Tanner joined forces with his wife Barbara, first to help set up and run a retail fashion business, then to go on to become professionally-qualified dance teachers and run a school of dancing. Now peacefully retired, having notched up nearly 60 years of happy marriage, Mike looks back and reflects that success and happiness are largely about attitude, and that what you achieve in life is up to you – and not what other people tell you may, or may not, be possible