Where did BreakPoint come from?

I’ve experienced some major break points since as far back as I can remember, and the theory of BreakPoint is that unless we embrace discomfort then we are rarely going to make any progress in life. One statement I ask people to think about is, ‘Unless you’re willing to step into the discomfort of change, then you are today all you’re ever going to be.’ That can be a very daunting concept. But, while change is inevitable, growth is a choice!?

After being involved with a child rescue operation in SE Asia, I saw the power of helping other people and how rewarding that is. It changed my life forever and became the heartbeat and DNA of BreakPoint. This was the best investment I have ever made. Although this was self-funded, the return on that investment has never stopped giving.???

In 2011 I hit rock bottom and was in a very dark place. This would be my greatest battle, however my most incredible discovery. I was finally able to take responsibility for where I was in life and realised that the answers to my issues were not external. I could no longer blame the outside world for my failures and this forced me to look within, where the answers were hidden all along. I also realised that the more we focus on anything, the bigger that becomes, positive or negative, so I started to build an image of who I wanted to be and then added emotion to that equation of how it would feel to be that person. That became my dominant visualisation, regardless of the mind assassin telling me the opposite message.??

This together with identifying and exposing my weaknesses was the touch paper that lit the light of significant change in a relatively short space of time. I advanced so significantly that I wanted to share this experience and knowledge with the world. With this new information coupled with the life of experience to that point, I had the fundamentals to create BreakPoint.?

I’ve always believed that by visualising your deepest desires, you start to breathe life into them. As a young boy, all I cared about was becoming a soldier. I was already there in spirit; from being a teenager in the Royal Marines careers office and seeing a photo of a Special Forces combat swimmer inside a mini-submarine, I saw my path laid out before me.?

Everything I’ve done since then has happened because of visualisation. It’s difficult for some people to believe in, but our lives reflect our thought patterns. They are the products of our imaginations. If you visualise what you want on a repeated basis, you impress upon the sub conscious mind so that thinking must move into form. Once you understand it is a science, it makes you unstoppable, so long as you learn to understand that the mind has the ability to accept or reject the conscious thoughts. You become the gatekeeper to your subconscious mind and subsequent results.?

At the time I witnessed this epiphany, I was working for an oil company in Brisbane. Then a couple of former fighter pilots came into the office to give us a staff-training day. I thought to myself, ‘If they can make this relevant to us, think how useful it would be to teach people skills from the Special Forces ... imagine that.’?

A few days later, I was on a plane flying across the endless Australian outback when I had an epiphany. The idea suddenly presented itself to me so clearly that I could picture it taking place across the landscape outside my window.?

I imagined civvies from the corporate sector doing a simulated escape. Veterans suffering from PTSD would find their feet again working as instructors and teaching mental and fitness techniques to people who wanted to stretch themselves. BreakPoint would be an existential rocket up the arse of the beleaguered victims of the corporate world. In that moment all the dots joined together; this was my purpose, and BreakPoint would be the vehicle of change that would allow people to see that we have infinite potential.?

And it may sound like hocus-pocus but once I set upon that desire, my world in Australia started to fall apart; my contract came to an end and the new contract I was supposed to start was withdrawn. It was as if the universe was giving me the push I needed. Within two weeks I had sold everything I owned on Gumtree and was back in England.?

Later that year I did some hostile environment awareness work at Pippingford Park, in Sussex’s Ashdown Forest. As soon as I got on that land I felt at home. I looked at the offices and thought, ‘This is BreakPoint’.?

The blueprint was almost complete, the website was being built, I was looking into making pitches to corporates and I had what I thought was an HQ. Then one day I got a call from Foxy (Jason Fox), asking, ‘Mate, you know BreakPoint? How do you feel about doing that on TV?’ He was sat with the production company working on the treatment for SAS: Who Dares Wins.?

Talk about the universe giving me a push!?

I’d had to clear a lot out of the way to move forward after Australia. But this was my reward. It was the stage I had visualised, except a hundred times bigger. It was the perfect platform from which to launch BreakPoint; the exposure I’d been seeking.?

That’s the thing with positive outcomes – if you’re a negative person, you will get negative outcomes. If you’re a positive person, you will get positive outcomes. Visualisation works either way. Meanwhile, we have to be willing to accept change, as difficult as it may seem, with the knowledge that it will lead to bigger and better things.?

The trouble is that humans evolved with a survival blueprint. Our minds are wired for survival, not success in this modern world. When we were living as hunter gatherers there was so much that could go wrong, that the tendency is now to look for things to go wrong. We spend so much time in that survival default mode, that it takes work to build a positive mindset.?

That’s why BreakPoint’s mission statement is to create a globally identifiable brand recognised for the positive growth and development of others. We focus on unloading unhelpful behaviours and creating positive new habits in their place.?

When it comes to visualisation, there’s more to it than just wanting something. You’ve got to resonate with it and experience an emotional reaction. If it doesn’t spark genuine excitement in you when you picture it then it’s worthless. It’s about creating a visual picture of where you want to be, how it’s going to benefit you, how it will feel. If you create that emotional state around your desired outcome, it causes a chemical reaction within the body that pulls you towards the direction of where you imagine you’re going to be. Visualise something with enough clarity and detail and it will happen.?

Our business model started very much as a physical offering; however, we have now evolved into showing people the source code of who we are and how we’re wired. From that we can initiate change that will be consistent and ever lasting. We are soon to launch the BreakPoint Academy portal which will offer individuals and teams the ability to follow online programmes and other resources to achieve anything they desire.?

Learn more about how BreakPoint’s range of corporate and individual training programmes help people change their limiting beliefs and unearth infinite potential by visiting www.break-point.co.uk or contacting us at [email protected].?