Eight years ago I was a middle manager is a mid-sized organisation and life was pretty good, I had a lovely girlfriend, a house we shared five minutes walk from work, I was involved with my local cricket team and golf club and work for the most part was enjoyable…
Everything on the surface appeared to be going right and that’s what I kept telling myself but nagging doubts kept surfacing…
Wasn’t there meant to be something more than this?
I was grateful for what I had yet felt there was something missing and couldn’t put my finger on what it was…
A circuitous chain of events led to me booking on an NLP practitioner course…
The Chairman of my cricket team did the course and raved about it. I realised I had had zero money spent my own development at work over the last five years and growing curiosity and mild frustrations at work finally led to me being present back in October 2008…
I remember that day vividly as it was the first time I had ever reflected on my own journey and the direction I was going in, let alone come up with a congruent goal that fitted all areas of my life and in which I could place all my energy…
The belief was missing at that stage, more money and the usual material elements of goals were present not that I believed they would materialise. The strangest of all the elements of the goal was a new business venture, and I didn’t even know what I would do let alone where to start…
8 years later my life is beyond any of my expectations back then. I have a beautiful family, a fantastic training and coaching business and the thing that was most missing back in early 2008; fulfilment and connection…
What do I put this transformation down to?
Continued investment in myself!
The list of courses I have been on surprised myself when I put this together!
NLP Practitioner 2008
NLP Master Practitioner 2010
Time Line Therapy Practitioner® and Master Practitioner 2009
Hypnosis Practitioner and Master Practitioner 2010
Motivational Map Licensed Practitioner 2011
Motivational Map Business Practitioner 2012
NLP Trainers Training 2013
Motivational Map Senior Practitioner Licensee 2014
ILAB Entrepreneurial Institute Training 2016
As I look back on the courses above I realise that the sum total of that training comes to over a £20,000 investment and over 4 months of time spent at live trainings never mind the preparation before and afterwards…
I can honestly say none of the above was on my mind on day one of that course in 2008 other than a curiosity and a thirst to learn more and a little belief that maybe there was more to life…
The thing is when you take the time to invest in yourself you can guarantee a return on that investment by taking the next steps (which do emerge when you make a commitment to your own development). You don’t need to know the full journey, just decide what the next step should be and make sure when that arrives that you take it, and when you do the opportunities will keep coming. In truth they are always there, you just have to be in a certain frame of mind to even be aware of them…
I now have the pleasure of training the vast majority of the training courses which I personally attended to help others who have that same curiosity and desire for greater fulfilment, contentment and connection that I had…
If you want to make an improvement to your life and career in 2017 then I can guarantee that investing in yourself is never a bad idea and one which will always move you forwards…
Everything on the surface appeared to be going right and that’s what I kept telling myself but nagging doubts kept surfacing…
Wasn’t there meant to be something more than this?
I was grateful for what I had yet felt there was something missing and couldn’t put my finger on what it was…
A circuitous chain of events led to me booking on an NLP practitioner course…
The Chairman of my cricket team did the course and raved about it. I realised I had had zero money spent my own development at work over the last five years and growing curiosity and mild frustrations at work finally led to me being present back in October 2008…
I remember that day vividly as it was the first time I had ever reflected on my own journey and the direction I was going in, let alone come up with a congruent goal that fitted all areas of my life and in which I could place all my energy…
The belief was missing at that stage, more money and the usual material elements of goals were present not that I believed they would materialise. The strangest of all the elements of the goal was a new business venture, and I didn’t even know what I would do let alone where to start…
8 years later my life is beyond any of my expectations back then. I have a beautiful family, a fantastic training and coaching business and the thing that was most missing back in early 2008; fulfilment and connection…
What do I put this transformation down to?
Continued investment in myself!
The list of courses I have been on surprised myself when I put this together!
NLP Practitioner 2008
NLP Master Practitioner 2010
Time Line Therapy Practitioner® and Master Practitioner 2009
Hypnosis Practitioner and Master Practitioner 2010
Motivational Map Licensed Practitioner 2011
Motivational Map Business Practitioner 2012
NLP Trainers Training 2013
Motivational Map Senior Practitioner Licensee 2014
ILAB Entrepreneurial Institute Training 2016
As I look back on the courses above I realise that the sum total of that training comes to over a £20,000 investment and over 4 months of time spent at live trainings never mind the preparation before and afterwards…
I can honestly say none of the above was on my mind on day one of that course in 2008 other than a curiosity and a thirst to learn more and a little belief that maybe there was more to life…
The thing is when you take the time to invest in yourself you can guarantee a return on that investment by taking the next steps (which do emerge when you make a commitment to your own development). You don’t need to know the full journey, just decide what the next step should be and make sure when that arrives that you take it, and when you do the opportunities will keep coming. In truth they are always there, you just have to be in a certain frame of mind to even be aware of them…
I now have the pleasure of training the vast majority of the training courses which I personally attended to help others who have that same curiosity and desire for greater fulfilment, contentment and connection that I had…
If you want to make an improvement to your life and career in 2017 then I can guarantee that investing in yourself is never a bad idea and one which will always move you forwards…
