To be a success... you gotta be AUTHENTIC.

A few years ago I had a big fall. Another one. And I wasn’t sure how I was going to get up this time!  – And so for seemed like forever I found myself hanging on by a thread, just surviving. Despite my previous triumphs and the many good things I had experienced in my life I still had a sense of overwhelming failure, because I knew I could do so much better; I recognised I hadn’t realised my potential but I didn’t really know why. It certainly wasn’t for the lack of effort. Amongst the doom and gloom I knew I must first understand how my cycle of feast and famine had been created. I was tired of making the same mistakes over and over again. Worst part was I knew deep down it was me that somehow kept sabotaging myself. I needed to identify what was wrong so that I could put it right. After all the seminars and books and even the after the obligatory fire walk I remained stuck. And it was because of one reason… and one reason only. FEAR!

So my personal battle ceased the day I realised what I truly wanted from life; I stopped swimming against the tide and trying to force myself to fit in where I didn’t belong. I was no longer prepared to ‘fake it’ by remaining involved in activities that I really didn’t enjoy, and this eventually led to me leaving a career that I didn’t like and breaking a destructive relationship with ‘the love of my life’ that (despite my best efforts) was simply never going to work.

Although, on reflection I had been enduring mediocrity in every department of my life for far too long; it was still scary to prise myself away from the relative safety and security of my comfortable existence. I think like most people I was clinging on to what I was used to because no matter what your story is; no matter what your core beliefs are we all find a way to support them, even though its these limiting beliefs that ultimately keep us rooted to the spot.

But miraculously I found that once I started living from a place of authenticity, the forces on planet Earth gladly realigned themselves to support me - and they will do exactly the same for you. This planet supports anyone who advances confidently in the direction of their dream and follows their heart. However, most people live their lives on such a microscopic level that they don’t even consider themselves to be part of this world. The vast majority of the population have such a small view of themselves they don’t think they even count. But consider this; if you throw a pebble into the Atlantic Ocean that pebble will alter the shape of the whole coastline. Ultimately the entire shoreline has to reconfigure itself to accommodate that one extra stone. Now put this into a different context and think about this for a moment – exactly the same thing happened when you were born - the entire universe had to rearrange itself just to accommodate that one extra person - YOU!!!

YOU - Changed Everything

So, ‘You’ must get used to thinking beyond your current circumstances and embrace this World that you live in, and your role within it; because your actions create a ripple effect, which means that ‘You’, your family, friends and every other person alive has far more power to influence this world than any of us realise. Everybody is interconnected and what’s more we are all here for a reason. Everybody on Planet Earth intended themselves here; such a simple truth but when it dawned on me I stopped dead in my tracks and my life came into sharp focus. Years of struggling to understand what my life was all about melted away in an instant. I was simply here to follow my heart, nothing more complicated than that. And so that’s exactly what I decided to do!

Now I’ve heard it said that “you don’t truly understand something until you can explain it to another person so that they understand it too”. So I felt an overwhelming urge to put my insights down on paper in order to crystallize my thoughts. I realise now that what I was in fact doing was having a conversation with myself. I was talking to the part of me that was stuck! In fact, to be more accurate, I was talking to that kid locked inside me who had become ‘frozen to the spot’ and been lost for so many years because he didn’t know where to turn. I felt obliged to tell him that everything was going to be alright now and things were back on track.

It was actually me talking to that beautiful little boy that dwelt within me who knew instinctively when he was born that he was capable of making his dreams come true.

I wanted him to know he didn’t require anyone’s permission to be successful because success is a natural state of being, a birth right, and that all the challenges and frustrations he (and I) had faced in ‘our’ life experience up to this point were simply lessons to facilitate growth and so were actually there to support (not hinder) a natural progression into a happy, healthy, wealthy spirit. I wanted him (and I want you) to realise your potential. Most of all my desire was to set that fantastic little kid inside me free.

The photos above were the catalyst that inspired me to research and write this book - which ultimately led me to personal empowerment. You see I thought I was the only one who felt like I was failing in my life, but since I started opening up to the people around me and subsequently to others all over the globe I discovered these ‘little kids’ living inside all of us.