If NLP And Coaching Are So Hot, Where's My Range Rover?

Welcome to the “If NLP And Coaching Are So Hot, Where's My Range Rover?" post. If you haven’t already got a copy of the Special Report, that’s the place to start – if you don’t already have it, you can find it here: 


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In the days & weeks ahead, I’ll be adding valuable new material to the blog to help you make a great living doing what you love (& to create the life you desire).

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Change Your Mindset, Change Your Life - Jonathan Clark NLP Scotland Based Courses

HELLO there.  You maybe know me, maybe you don’t yet.  My name’s Jonathan Clark and I’ve taught the majority of the active & successful NLP Practitioners in Scotland. 

This is a private – by invitation only – offer to people who are serious about their personal growth.  If you are ready to grow and evolve yourself meaningfully, we invite you to come and spend 8 days with us…

  I want to introduce you to a whole new mindset, a technology, a toolkit full of tools for every occasion, drawn from years of real world application and experience using state of the art psychology such as Neuro Linguistic programming and Hypnosis, as well as the secrets and advanced methodologies employed by Life Coaches and spiritual advisers alike. 

  Now I’m not a psychiatrist or psychologist – but I have spent 25 years in personal development helping people improve their lives – I’ve learned and taught advanced techniques like NLP, Huna and Hypnosis. 

  For me it was always about making changes.  If you’re not happy with the results you’re creating, then change what you’re doing.  Whining and complaining won’t make it any better, and nobody’s going to come and rescue you.  The sooner you realise it’s you, the better.  It’s what you do that counts.  So initially I did private therapy – now up to 5000 hours of one to one time with real people with real problems, , and then started doing workshops to try and share this mindset with as many people as possible.  So far I’ve run 30 courses like this coming one that are 8 days long, and several that are longer!

However, in a completely unregulated industry, people can simply read a book and call themselves a Life Coach or Guru.  Oh dear.

NLP had to evolve. Hypnosis alone wasn’t enough.  Life Coaching is more than just hiring a personal trainer.  Huna was too ancient and esoteric and turned some people off.  There needed to be a comprehensive model which was simple and straightforward to use in your daily life.  After all, it’s what you do consistently, and persistently that shapes your life.  You can’t have a bath once and be clean forever.  To that effect, I want to share what I’ve found with you

     One of the first things we cover on my courses are what are called “The Presuppositions”.  Those are the things you have to presuppose – they’re suggested beliefs that are useful.  If you run them in your head you tend to find that life gets a lot easier, or you get better results, just by thinking this way.  They’re simply a suggested mindset or outlook, so if you run them in your head it will change the way you look at things.  Software for the mind.  Does that make sense?

     So, for instance one of them is “There’s no such thing as failure, there’s only feedback”.  You know that everything that you do generates an outcome.  We don’t use the word “goal” very much - we use the word “outcome”.  Reason is you don’t always get your goal, but you always get an outcome.  May not be the outcome you want, but you still create an outcome.  Now, if you take that outcome as feedback then it’ll either be taking you towards what you want, or away from what you don’t want.  So imagine a plane wants to fly from Glasgow Prestwick to Stansted, yeah?  It knows its outcome and it takes off and it flies off in that direction.  Now if it checks its computer to find out where it is, and discovers it’s halfway over Iceland, then it’s generated an outcome!  Right?  Not the outcome it wanted but it is still an outcome.  

                                            

     Now, if you take that as feedback, it tells you what to do next.  It tells you where you need to go – you need to turn the plane around and go in the other direction!   Take that as feedback – it’s not failure.  You’ve actually learned something and generated an outcome.  Now, if you operate from that basis it makes life a hell of a lot easier, you don’t have to beat yourself up about “Oh I’m so bad at what I do”, you know, it’s “You generated an outcome” and take it that way.  That kind-of implies forgiveness.  It implies forgiveness for yourself, as well as for everyone else.  You know, other people don’t necessarily fail at things, they also generate outcomes and they can also take that as feedback.

     Think about it, imagine if just that one principle became something you filtered your life through – you looked through those kinds of glasses from time to time.  That would probably make quite a difference in the way you think, the way you behave.  Now, there are over a dozen presuppositions, and this course really is not just a bunch of techniques, it’s an entire mindset, an attitude, a way of looking at things.  You know the difference between a Practitioner and someone who just “does positive thinking” is, a Practitioner treats these presuppositions as a Code of Conduct, at least that’s what I think.

     Just imagine how life would be if you started to adopt just one of these dozen or more useful beliefs – we cover all of them, in detail, one at a time, and we help you to integrate and breathe life into them in your own mind.

  This is your chance to come play with these methods – I say “play” because they are so simple, and so much fun to use, you might think you’re not making serious changes, and you’d be mistaken.  You see, that’s what makes it work.  If you’re enjoying using the techniques, then by definition you’re engaging the unconscious mind, and that’s the secret to making any change right there…

You can do in 8 days what most others take weeks to do, and you’re saving at least £500 compared to other providers.  We’ll coach you after the course, and invite you to come back and repeat at our cost.  And if you’re not entirely blown away by all of this, we’ll give you your money back.

If this has piqued your curiousity – give me a call or email me and we can have a chat first.

IMPORTANT: For this weekend

Here are 10 reasons I think this message is vital for you:

1.      I KNOW you can help other people with your experience and life lessons.  Stop listening to other people’s cd’s and impact more people in a big way with YOUR stuff!

2.      The best way to STAND OUT is with a book and online video.  That’s how I earned my reputation.

3.      The highest paid professionals are coaches and consultants – you can join them

4.      The only reason you haven’t done it yet is cos you think it’s too hard and takes ages.  False.

5.      I’m running my Guru Factory programme starting this weekend and I want you there, so I can help you create multiple streams of income

Check out my honest review of the “Publish A Book And Get Rich Bootcamp” where the big Canadian publisher wanted £34,999 to make you into a published author!

https://jonathanclark.clickfunnels.com/launch-page

6.      The Guru Factory is the easiest and fastest way to get you out there - baby step by baby step.

7.      I know that I can help you get recognised as the expert, starting this weekend, and get you on radio and TV

8.      Learn how to publish a book in 90 days and get it on Amazon.  I’ve done it 3 times myself.

9.      I’ve made over £1 million as an author, expert, speaker, coach, and online marketer and I WISH someone had handed it to me on a plate like I’m doing here

10.   There’s over £500 of bonuses for people who sign up THIS WEEK… but will you?

There are 10 steps to getting paid for your know-how, and I outline them here:

https://jonathanclark.clickfunnels.com/10-steps-to-becoming-the-expert-author

In the 3^rd video I give you my Licence Unlocker letter, where you write a short booklet and get it downloaded by hundreds of company employees

See how to pull in 5 figure months with websites and all the techie stuff done for you

I'll show you how to get Coaching Clients to pay you to work with them without becoming enslaved and chained to your phone. 

Imagine the security of getting paid month after month after month for helping people.  All these results you’re going to learn in this video

https://jonathanclark.clickfunnels.com/5-ways

But if you want to crush your competition, have the achievement of being a published author, and make secure residual income forever more doing something you ENJOY, then look at what I’m covering in this 90 day programme:

https://jonathanclark.clickfunnels.com/guru-launch-series

I hope that helps you.  Weird format I know, but I do believe it’s CRITICAL.  Your message is important – don’t let it die inside you.  Help others by sharing your experience.  Become the Guru and make a difference!  Only 20 places available.  Let me know what questions you have…

You can SIGN UP HERE

Jonathan

P.S. We close the doors on Friday the 5^th.  It’s also worth watching all 4 videos just to learn the steps and get more business.  Stuff I’ve never taught before…

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How to build a recurring revenue as a highly-paid author, speaker, coach, seminar leader, or online marketer.

This is just a short video [well, short for me!] which poses one question - How do you take your life’s wisdom and experience and take it out of your head and put it into a product or programme and monetise it?

What do you know right now – what are you good at that can inspire other people or instruct them so that they get more results, an easier life, better quality of life, and you also get paid for it.

Testimonial for The Guru Factory

You'll have no doubt seen my promotions for The Guru factory which launches with the live weekend event in 7 days time.

But what you may not know is that back in January I ran a small trial run with only a few select individuals from my private client bank to test it out.

Here's what one of these pioneers had to say:

 "My name is Paul and my business is Get Results Fitness. We run a Personal Training business that help people look better, feel better and move better

Before guru I had very little knowledge of how to develop my reputation online. Also I had bits of an online marketing program but needed someone to help me pull it all together.

Guru made things idiot proof and easy to follow.

Guru has helped me create an idea for an online product that will hopefully help me achieve some residual income in the near future.

If you don’t join guru you will likely be overwhelmed not knowing where to start, and weeks and months will pass without you really moving forward. Guru gives you the support and knowledge to get it done."

You can learn all about this innovative NEW programme that turns you into a published author with a platform, presence and residual income streams... in just 90 days!

http://www.TheGuruFactory.co.uk

How to be a highly-paid author, speaker, coach, seminar leader, or online marketer.

I have a question for you - How do you take your life story and the advice you have for other people on how they can improve their life and build their business and build a 6 figure income from it?  Well it’s something I figured out how to do over the last 20 years. And I’d like to share some insider secrets with you.

In this video I'm going to teach you 5 advanced strategies

If you want to become the next guru in your field then take out a pen and paper cos you’re going to want to write this stuff down.

You can opt in to get your copy of "The Licence Unlocker Letter" and learn more about the Guru Factory programme at 

http://www.TheGuruFactory.co.uk

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Give Me Just 5 Minutes And I'll Show You How To Make A Difference

I've just loaded a sneak preview of my latest [and the one I'm most proud of] programme --The Guru Factory -- on Youtube, and the video is below...

A lot of people have been asking me questions about this programme, so I thought I'd answer most of them below...

What is The Guru factory?

It's a 2 day LIVE event followed by a 90 day programme where I work with you to monetise who you are and what you know. Together we will build you a recurring revenue as a highly-paid author, speaker, coach, seminar leader, or online marketer.

The system is designed to show you exactly how you can easily create engaging content that will attract your target market to you and position yourself as an expert.

We go beyond the theory and rather than show you exactly how to do it, WE ACTUALLY DO IT TOGETHER.  AND we provide you with the tools you need to get rapid results without being a techie.

Are you ready to implement and take action on what you learn? If you aren’t, that’s OK, but if you are willing to take action and build an engaged audience who sees you as the expert, then we are ready to show you how.

You can make money as fast as you implement the tools and take action. In my previous "Fully Booked Bootcamp" and "The Alchemy Challenge" programmes, we have had students literally take what they learned during our pre-training and use that information to close deals with it.

If you are deliberate about implementing what we teach, and if you follow the action steps, we know you will see results.

CONCERN: Is it Easy? Can I Do This?

SOLUTION: A couple of you said "I don't want another thing on my to do list". One of the great things about our process is that it is so easy to implement. In an afternoon, we'll show you how you can turn the knowledge in your head into podcasts, livecasts, webinars and books.

CONCERN: What if I fall behind? Or miss a lesson?

SOLUTION: Don't worry - you will have access to each lesson after they originally happen. Everything will be recorded and you can go back and rewatch any lesson or watch it for the first time on your own schedule. You may even find that you get so busy implementing what you learn in the first couple lessons, that you want to pause the training so you can get the assignments done. Our format will let you do that. If you are watching recorded lessons, you can go in any order you choose so you can focus on the parts you want to see again, or go directly to training on a section you want to implement right away.

CONCERN: What if I'm just lazy and unmotivated?

SOLUTION: Well, is that really the case? Or is it that you’ve never had someone hold your hand and show you a step-by-step system on how to build an engaged audience?

We are even going to work with you 1 on 1 to make sure your tools get set up right away. If you are truly lazy, unmotivated, and won't take the steps necessary to turn your expertise into great content, then don't join. If you're willing to do some work, study, and implement, then this will work for you.

CONCERN: What if I am not an expert?

SOLUTION: If you have ever helped anyone solve a problem, you can provide a service as an expert, and get paid well for doing so.  Can you answer 10-20 questions about a topic? Then you can execute on what we teach. If you can’t pull out the expertise from yourself and run with it, then we’ll show you how you can borrow other’s peoples expertise and facilitate for them, and how you can interview other experts to build an audience.

The truth is no matter what business you're in or want to be in," your business isn't different." All businesses need leads. All businesses need customers. Every business can benefit by having a strong engaged audience online.

Regardless of what you sell, positioning yourself as an expert and building a platform for leadership and change in your industry by publishing improves your connection to your customers and will help generate leads for your business and attract the right customers to you. You’ll also learn how to turn those interested in learning into real leads you can follow up with and close.

CONCERN: How easy is it to learn to use? I’m not very technical. I’m not an experienced writer.

SOLUTION: I’ve designed the system to be easy to use even if you are not technical. You’ll get step-by-step training inside the system as well as a systematic approach to creating books for the purpose of building a business and strategies for expanding your platform. We have help videos that literally walk you through everything. On top of that you can schedule a 1 on 1 session with me to help you get everything setup.

CONCERN: What if I don’t even have a business yet?

SOLUTION: You don’t need a business to start engaging with an audience and start building a list. We’ll show you how you can take the knowledge you have about your business, something you are passionate about or want to learn about and use it to create an engaged audience.

CONCERN: What if I don't know how to write or publish a book?

SOLUTION: That is exactly what this course will teach you. We have templates and structure created right in the course to take you through the whole process from beginning to end. In fact I have had 4 clients so far who have gone through the programme without any book writing experience and in less than 30 days completely written and launched their books

CONCERN: What if I fall behind?

SOLUTION: This is a fast-paced course and this is YOUR PRODUCT. If you need to take a break, the materials will all be here when you come back. However, we encourage you to stay on track with our curriculum to build momentum and get the maximum benefit out of the programme. Also by staying up with the sessions you’ll be able to ask questions Live when they are recorded.

You'll have access to the complete programme so you can come back as often as you need to review the training materials and access the resources.

CONCERN: What if I try it, and it’s not for me?

SOLUTION: I stand by this course with a 100% money-back guarantee. I’ve tested these techniques and strategies extensively and I have proven that they work. I have success story after success story, so I can take on the risk myselfs. Try the course out for 30 days and decide if it’s right for you. However - and this is important - only join if you intend on implementing what you learn. This course is not just to give you a bunch of information. You’ll need to take action to be successful. If you do decide that it’s not for you just ask for a refund in the first 30 days.

CONCERN: What if I don't know where to start?

SOLUTION: One of the great things about this system is we take you by the hand and show you step-by-step how to start and where to get started…even if you have no idea how to get leads...or even how to get started. We even get on a 1 on 1 joint call with you to help get you going.

CONCERN: What if I don't know anything about marketing, technology or product creation?

SOLUTION: No problem. This programme is designed for anyone who wants to build their platform, increase their value and start making money by publishing and building a business off of their book, podcast or publishing to other media. We have people in this programme with very little to no experience in marketing, technology or product creation as well as more experienced customers. You will learn everything you need to know, step by step.

Where can I learn more?

Just visit www.TheGuruFactory.co.uk

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How everyday people can make money sharing their advice

Have you ever imagined yourself receiving an award on stage?  Have you ever dreamed of speaking in front of hundreds of people, delivering your message with authority and credibility?  What if you could be not only recognised for your talents, accomplishments and expertise, but you could double your income by doing it?

At a time when millions of people are retiring or looking for second incomes, and millions more are hungry for advice and guidance on how to improve their lives or grow their businesses, I ask you “Why not use your knowledge and life’s experience to inspire and help others?”  You can easily package your knowledge and share it with them in a way that earns you money.

If you believe you are here to make a difference in this world, the best way to do that is to package your knowledge and advice (on your chosen topic) to help others succeed.  In this day and age, anyone can be a “publisher” and help other people improve their lives.  Why not you?

Your life experience, your knowledge and your viewpoint – what you’ve learned throughout life and want to share with the world – has greater importance and market value that you probably imagined…  You can get paid for sharing advice and how-to information, and in the process build a lucrative income and a profoundly meaningful life.

This programme is about becoming the expert, authority and “go to” person in your area where you communicate your message to the public and finally get paid what you’re truly worth.  Whether you’ve published a book or you’ve never even considered being an author, this may seem daunting. 

Fortunately I’ve systematised the journey for you by breaking it down into a 90 day blueprint that will save you years of time, money and effort.

The Guru Factory is designed to turn your know-how and knowledge into an income stream that gives you influence, access and recognition – and makes you money while you sleep.  How to share your message and advice on any topic with thousands of people, all the while building a real career and business as an expert.

I believe that the system I’ve developed in The Guru Factory is one of the simplest and fastest ways to grow a business in as little as 90 days.  Of course it’s up to you to do the work, but I’ll be with you every step of the way.  This is a DONE WITH YOU programme.

If any of this sounds unbelievable – especially the bit about getting paid for sharing your knowhow – then that’s only because you’re not yet aware of the pretty secretive industry that has existed for decades – the “expert industry”.

These are the people you see on TV and on the web giving advice on any number of fields.  Average, ordinary people who have packaged what they know into advcice for others – whether that’s being a better parent, how to restore classic cars, how to build aviaries, or any other topic.

They have articles, blogs, DVD home study courses,, videos and more – all of which are extremely cheap and quick to produce thanks to the internet.

And don’t worry about the words “guru” and “factory” if you have weird connotations to them – this is simply a fill in the blanks process where we combine various parts of your intellectual property in  way that is easy to consume and helps other people in their lives.  It’s not about becoming a motivational or inspirational speaker [though you can do that if you want as part of this programme] Becoming an expert is simply a matter of positioning and packaging who you are and what you know so that you can help the greatest number of your ideal clients.  And I’m going to walk you through each step of the way.

You really can reach thousands of people with YOUR message, and you can earn good money doing so.  I have proven it and so have my clients.  So keep reading and you may discover a whole new career for yourself, and a higher calling…

Your starting point isn’t important – whether you’re starting from scratch, or you’ve been in business for decades – this programme is about reinventing yourself.  Take advantage of this incredible technology and the community that exist in this programme and don’t waste another minute – it’s your time to shine.

IT’S YOUR TURN – you’ve surfed the internet and listened to other people’s audios long enough.  Now is the time to learn step by step how to get hired as a speaker, hold your own seminars, make money online and build a real business coaching and training other people.

THIS YEAR you can have

·        Your own paperback book on Amazon

·        Speaking gigs and lucrative seminars

·        Coaching clients and recurring income

·        Thousands of people impacted by YOUR STORY and YOUR ADVICE in your passion

You can start from scratch and you can start right now, and in 90 days you will have your own book published on Amazon, your own website to sell it, your own web presence on Facebook and YouTube, your own product for sale and your own subscription website where people pay you every month for your information and advice.  Are you ready?

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Honest review of the book publishing bootcamp May 2015

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Here's One I Prepared Earlier...

Do you remember Blue Peter?  Do you remember when they would build a doll's house or a rocket made from a Fairly Liquid bottle?  And sometimes you could send away an SAE and get the instructions.  Well, when I saw the Action Man Quartermasters Stores, I was hooked!  I convinced my mother to part with a 1st class stamp and an envelope, and when that sheet came in I started on my project immediately.  Sticky wood-effect paper for the flooring, half a ping pong ball for the light shade, and the rifle rack that I already owned.

But here's the interesting part to this story - for me anyway.  While I was building it, I was also teaching an invisible audience how to build it at the same time!  I mean, out loud!

In NLP they call this modelling.  

At 10 years old I was replicating what I'd just watched the week before - I was building something and teaching an audience how to build it as I went along...

I guess once a Coach, always a Coach.

Many years later I spent 7 years studying martial arts - in particular Lau Gar Kung Fu.  Of the 64 of us that enrolled in that first class, after 7 years we were down to one - and it was me!  The disadvantage was that I got a lot less personal tuition than the rest of the class - it made sense for the teacher to teach all the other grades and spend what time was left with me.  The advantage was I got to teach, and that I really enjoyed. And all of my pupils went on to pass their gradings and win their next belt.

Skip forward to 2007 and I launched The Fully Booked Bootcamp.  This was a 12 month programme for people who had an idea for a business, and my job was to teach them how to launch it, market it and make it profitable in year one.  We had a room full of students, including Brian Costello, Jackie Walker, Brian Larkin.

Brian Costello launched Headstrong.  Jackie went on to become The Divorce Coach.  Brian Larkin won a BAFTA.

A couple of years later I did a 6 month "virtual" Bootcamp called The Alchemy Challenge - this was a webinar programme designed to monetise whatever knowledge or skills the students brought to the table.  Most of them implemented what I showed them and made money.

The Platinum Challenge came later - this was a follow up to Alchemy, but in particular on how to run your own Teleseminars, the best way to do product launches and a whole training on creating your own profitable membership sites.

After all this, I came to the following conclusion - I'm very good at making other people successful.

Whether its turning around a suicidal client, or Coaching someone into a better career, or helping teachers activate all the training they've ever had, it seems that the more I focus on my clients getting THEIR desired outcome, the better it works.

And before anyone quotes Zig Ziglar, the gist is switching from achieving my own goals to helping others get their's. All the best ideologies teach that principle, and I suppose that's how the principle has shown up in my life.

So its time for the next programme, and I'm gathering data on who needs help with what.  if you haven't completed my online [and anonymous] survey yet, please do.  Its at 

https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/VD9BF68

Watch this space.  Now, where's my double sided sticky tape?

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From Woe To Win

Maybe you can relate to this story...

Back in 1989 I was a Clerical officer working in the Pensions Department of The Benefits Agency.  Seems like a lifetime ago, though its actually 25 years ago.  I had a car, a flat, a day job and my weekends to myself, and I was living on £850 per month. Plus the occasional food parcel that my dad would show up with.   A laughable income now, that wouldn't last me a week!

While it felt right at first, after a few years I knew the job inside out, it had become pretty dull, and I began to harbour thoughts about doing something else.  Was this it?  As the most experienced member of the pensions team, I was seeing men and women at retirement age coming in and getting a massive £54 a week.  And that was assuming you'd paid all your contributions all your working life.  Was that the best you could hope for?

Around that same time my first love decided to have a fling behind my back, so I was hurt, angry and full of trust issues.

Now I'd grown up reading marvel and DC superhero comics, loved role playing games and movies, and so at age 19 I'd started a wee fanzine business on the side called "Superhero UK".  Every month I'd be up till midnight stapling the pages of the photocopied zine together, I had customers all over the world who sent me postal orders [remember them?] and I had to keep a ledger of subscription payments, who owed me money, who's subscription was up for renewal, etc.  19 years old and I thought I was an entrepreneur :-)

As a result I met and got friendly with a bunch of like-minded guys from Birmingham who had aspirations to produce a full colour superhero magazine that would unite the worlds of comics, movies, toys and games all in one place.  They knew a guy called Bob who worked for IPC magazines and knew the industry.  The result was Fantazia magazine, which we managed to get stocked on the shelves of high street newsagents like John Menzies.  I remember going to a concert at the SECC and seeing it on the shelf in the kiosk.

My outside work project didn't go down well in the office, and the crunch came when a member of the Benefit Fraud Team warned me at an office party to stop rocking the boat.  He didn't like my positive attitude, and I certainly didn't want to catch his! That convinced me that I'd outgrown the civil service and it was time to dig my escape tunnel from an institution that valued targets rather than caring or integrity.

Plans were made and I handed in my letter of resignation, and got ready to move down to Birmingham to work full time as Editor of the new magazine.  We had an office upstairs at 69 Hurst Street, not far from the Bull Ring, and the computers and gear we needed went on our credit cards.  Four young bucks living the dream and having a ball.  I knew it would pay me an income, and stretch me at the same time.  We even managed to get distribution in the States, and Bob and I flew to the Las Vegas Comic Convention to interview Stan Lee [the guy who invented the Hulk and Spiderman], meet the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles [or the 4 guys in suits] and do a lot of industry schmoozing.  At least I did - Bob was too busy at the Chicken Ranch and The Grand Canyon.

Two things then happened which both shattered my certainty and security.  The first was my Dad dying.  I was the last person he'd seen alive.

The second was when Bob decided he wanted the whole magazine business for himself, and we found out that a "Gentleman's agreement" isn't worth the paper its not written on!  He took the lot, and there was nothing we could do about it.  Christ!  More trust issues.

So with money rapidly running out, credit card debt, and my dream career over, I came back to East Kilbride with my tail between my legs and cried my heart out.  Panic.  Betrayal.  Grief.  Hopes crushed.  No idea of what was next.

I walked back into the benefits office to sign on.  "Aye whit happened tae yer wee self employed business now, eh?" came the gloating jibe.  I was seething, and embarrassed.   Humbling.  Having to fill in application forms for Income Support and hand them to one of my colleagues that I'd sat beside just days earlier.

Money was the big issue.  I was terrified of getting into more debt, or not having enough to live on, and the stress and ill health that it can bring.  I was told I was good with people, I knew the Benefits system inside out, and I'd had my first taste of the private sector.  Plus my Dad had been a Bank Manager.  So I chose the one career that I thought would be right for me... and became a Financial Adviser.

That one decision would shape me - it taught me about money, investment and saving.  I got used to having targets, making sales and customer service.  It also taught me a lot about how NOT to treat people. And best of all - it started me listening to Zig Ziglar, then Jack Black, then Tony Robbins.  Little did I realise that I'd stumbled into a new passion that would shape my career for the next 20 years...

The moral of this story?  Sometimes you feel like you're drowning in despair and overwhelm, with no way out.  Yet there's always a tiny voice from your conscious mind telling you "It's going to work out, this will pass".  You have no idea where you'll be in 10 years time, but as long as you have the intention to make things better, then you will attract, manifest and chance upon opportunities.

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