Rags to Riches & Back Again

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Just to give you a bit little bit of background about my own story. Growing up, I had asthma and asthma as a kid from the age of five until about 13 years of age. And this meant I couldn't take much exercise because even if if I if I ran 100 yards, I'd be coughing and spluttering and wheezing and fighting for breath. And it was very, it was awful. It was painful. And as a result, I was really bad at sports and I was always the last to be picked for football and rugby teams.

And my fellow classmates would say, Oh no, we don't want Pettigrew. We had him last week is useless and I was and when you hear that you're useless again and again and again, constantly. You start believing it. You start believing as and when you believe If something with emotion, it becomes true. So even though I was useless at sports, and I had very low self esteem, I actually started my first business when I was only 15 years old. And I it was a time it was the late 1970s.

And in Ireland, not many people had color TV, they had black and white, but not color TV. And I started a business as a school kid, I was a school kid at the time. And I was buying x rental color TVs and selling them for double the price and very little work and it was my first experience of business. And I did great for a school kid. I did really, really well. And I did that for a few years in my last few years at school, and later on I did Electronic Engineering at college.

And when I was 25, about two years after leaving college After leaving university, I started my first real business. And it was an office plant business. We supplied growing plants, tropical plants to offices. And we provided a maintenance service. And gradually that became a very, very successful business. But certainly the first few years were very painful.

It was literally a financial roller coaster. One week, I would have plenty of money the next week or next month, it will all be gone. And I almost be starving. And this financial rollercoaster and it was really bothering me constantly. Being on this financial roller coaster having money one minute and the next minute, it's all gone. So then I had started having a series of experiences that were showing me really clearly that it was my self worth.

That was to blame. It was myself. worth that was providing me from becoming wealthy. And fortunately, through business and doing a lot of self reading a lot of self help books, I gradually built my self confidence, my self worth my self esteem. And as my confidence and self worth grew, so did my prophets. And I really use the power of positive thinking.

And for many, many years, I got incredible results from being a positive thinker. Gradually, I moved from someone with very little self confidence, very little self worth, to someone who had a lot of self confidence and a lot of self worth until the point I became a millionaire. And for several years, I only worked a day and a half a week. And I spent most of my time doing voluntary work, and I had a wonderful lifestyle. I used to travel the world frequently I was all over the world and very, very I'm privileged to be able to do the things that I did. And I spent a lot of my time doing voluntary work.

That's what I spent most of my time doing. And I reached the point where in 2001, I sold my company. I was a millionaire at that point, and I sold my business to a multinational. And at that point, I thought, I thought I'd take an early retirement. But how little did I know what lay ahead for me? The next year in 2002, was a wonderful year, I founded an organization called the Institute for afterlife research.

And that was on radio and TV 78 times during that year sharing with people the scientific evidence for life after death, which is a subject that's been very close to my heart for many, many, many years. But you know what, then I trusted the wrong people. And I made bad investments and I lost every single cent in A very short period of time, it got so bad that I reached the point where I couldn't even feed my wife, or our baby son who had just been born. I can't even begin to tell you how frightening that experience was. Every morning I would wake up wanting to literally vamos with the fair. It was terrible.

It was paralyzing. One of those years, we lost a quarter of a million year euros in a single year. As I say, there were a few years like this and we lost everything. And when you're constantly losing money, you can gradually become pessimistic. So I went from someone who had lots of self confidence, lots of self esteem, a lot of self worth very optimistic and positive to becoming a person who expected more bad stuff to happen. And when you expect more bad stuff to happen and you are feeling that way Fear.

That's exactly what happens. Everything got worse. until the point where I rediscovered the power of gratitude. And I started reprogramming my mind for success. And everything, everything started to change really rapidly from that point. And coincidences started happening again.

And I had not seen coincidences happen for quite some time. So, in a way, it's like, I had already learned the power of positive thinking. And for a time, I had to learn the power of negative thinking and how to overcome it. Now, for a long time, I couldn't say this, but I can say this with my hand on my heart. I am so grateful for that experience. I certainly never want to have an experience like it ever again.

I but I'm so grateful for what I learned from that experience. Now I can help many people to do exactly the same and become truly successful and deeply happy, no matter how difficult their current circumstances may be.

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