The Global Achievers Issue 7/2020 | Page 8

credit cards to pay my rent and buy some food while I thought of a solution. Fortunately I was getting little bits of income coming in by doing odd jobs for people around their homes as a handy man, but I used every penny I could get from anywhere to invest in self-development and in coaches to find out what I was doing wrong.

Over the next few years I attended many courses in leadership, entrepreneurism and self-transformation to find what would make all the difference.

Then during a conversation with one of my coaches, I awoke to the realisation that I wasn’t succeeding because of dis-empowering interpretations I’d subconsciously invented about my self during my childhood. As the coaching conversation went on I had a totally life changing insight where I realised that ever since a moment when my father had got angry with me at the age of three, I’d been thinking I’m just not good enough, nobody wants me.

Before this expansion in my awareness I was totally unaware how all my actions were based on trying to prove to the world that I’m good enough and I’m wanted. Once I saw that this had been dominating me I was then able to free myself of it.

I'd finally become aware of the subconscious views I had of myself, then came how to unlearn them and free myself of them; a process I have now re-defined as transformation.

After experiencing this transformation, things totally changed for me because no longer did I have the pressure to