Journey to my success Part 1

"If you cant forgive and forget, then how's this? forget forgiving and accept that's it! "- Scroobious Pip

This blog is about my journey to the attraction of wealth into my life, to attract all of my goals and finally my dreams. All of which will be shared with you over the coming months, I will get there!

I was inspired to write this blog about my journey because of something simple that I noticed yesterday which gave me inner peace.
The United Kingdom has been battered by snow, ice and rain and I stepped out of the car and noticed in between the ice and snow on a patch of grass a shoot from a daffodil starting to force its way through.
This struck me as a poignant in explaining my journey and gave me an epiphany that every year this flower starts the same way and regardless of the conditions will always try to grow. The flower each time may be better than last year or it may be worse but it will always go through the cycle.
This could be applied to each one of our lives and maybe if we seek the sun we will grow organically, but the equilibrium of the universe means that we need the rain to nourish us and the snow is a warning that it is too early to flourish and we may die.

Surely life cannot be this simple, but of course it is!

I will try not to bore you too much with my personal life and circumstances but will start of the beginning of my journey and hope that you can find similarities and guidance for getting round the roadblocks.

2004-2005

It was late in the year and was about one month into my new job as a Cluster Manager for a well known hotel chain, it was a new experience to me as previously worked for my past employer for 13 years which was most of my adult life. I was with my peers but of course was "fronting it" I had know idea what I was doing or how I was going to do it. (Later this will be revealed to me as Faking it before making it).
I attended a meeting, which was the first one with my peers and overheard someone talking about a book they read called "Who moved my cheese" and it talks about handling change in your life.

This was relevant to me as a few months previously a long term relationship that I was in ended pretty badly, I was left to pick up all of the pieces including a mortgage bills and an ever increasing debt. I was at my lowest ebb, head buried firmly in the sand and did not know where to turn. I had to sell the house, arrange the debts and get out of the situation. The phone calls increased about payment and the situation was desperate. In the midst of all this front has to be firmly in place but without travelling down that African river Denial.

The turning point came after about fifty sleepless nights, hundreds of hours of watching pointless Television to block out my reality, the endless stream of debt consolidation commercials begging me for there business (my cynicism is a strong point of mine), I made that call.

So who did I call? well the National Debt helpline and explained them my situation, the guy on the phone was my angel he did not judge me and told me one thing and that was that my priority was the pay utilities and that anyone who I owed unsecured debt to was not to be paid and that I was to advise them that unless they accepted my offer of a repayment plan that I will consider insolvency. The confidence and the power this gave me back, transformed my life. The preceding phone call to the newly monikered "Creditors" was good and felt that all of there threats were now to no avail and they resided themselves to now helping me.

So what changed?

I no longer had FEAR! and no longer was going to be a VICTIM! I have always had this power but it took something of this magnitude to bring me back.

In reflection and to quote Bob Proctor "If you have debt just set up a debt repayment programme and thing about wealth generation, if you think debt you attract debt"

So back to meeting, now the book that I read was by a guy called Dr Spencer Johnson, and it was called "Who moved my cheese?" I listened to to my peers and the next day went to Waterstones and purchased it. How about that for action!

The book lit a fire inside of me, I had already been exposed to teaching of Edward De Bono and Tom Peters but this was different. The parable and the metaphors which can be adapted for your own personal circumstance resonated within me and my mind spun, spun with what I can do, what I can achieve.

Something also validated the story of "cheese" and that came in the unlikely guise of the film "Donnie Darko" which the part where he is speaking with the psychologist talking about god and the conclusion that he is agnostic.

This is the point of the quote on the opening line...

I did change, I did begin to just accept things and moved to Colchester from a 3 bedroomed country house to a one bedroom flat in Colchester. The date was 7/7/2005 bad Juju went down that day! my thought will always be with those who lost there lives.

Little did I know that my new theme tune would be "London Calling"

Next blog........ coming next week will talk about 2006 as predictably my newly found knowledge stalled.