About me.
When I was 27, I left my career in technical sales and started my own telecoms business with my own savings. While I’d picked up some useful experience during my fledgling sales career, I was now going it alone and pretty much making it up as I went along. I couldn’t afford mentoring fees or training courses, so everything I learned from that point onwards was self-taught, on the job through trial and error and, crucially, through reading books.
To cut a very long story short, I managed to build the business to a point where I could sell the company and retire at the age of 48. My wife and I live in Sussex, where we’re raising our two wonderful daughters. And I have a new ambition: to share the knowledge I’ve amassed and inspire others to lead a fulfilling life.
Throughout my career and later life, I have read a great many autobiographies, business books and self-help books, and my reading has given me a good deal of clarity and wisdom. Ideally, we would all read so widely – but who has the time and motivation to work through a library of self-development books and pull out the key action points?
That’s where Unleash the Magnificent You! comes in: the definitive self-help book, collating the most useful takeaway points of hundreds of popular and bestselling guides. This is, essentially, the only book you need to read to live a happier life: build good relationships, succeed in your career, develop resilience and self-confidence, find inner peace and contentment, and so much more.
How much easier, quicker and cheaper it is to read one book instead of hundreds to get the information you need!
The beauty of this book also lies in its simplicity. The reader will find the best ideas of many experts presented in a very concise and clear way. No long anecdotes, no waffle, no psycho-babble or academic discussions – just short chapters packed full of useful tips on how to put a plan together and get it done.
You could think of this book as your friendly, tells-it-as-it-is life coach, but the point here is not to coach – it’s to empower the reader to take charge of their own life. With this book, the reader will become their own life coach.
Self-help books are designed to inform the reader; but beyond informing, there’s a need to inspire action. ‘Help’ is a verb: helping yourself means doing, not just pondering. So this isn’t a book to just read and then put on the shelf; it’s a book that has a very strong emphasis on taking action. Through exploring the most important questions, the reader will become more decisive about their life’s direction, and by following the practical guidance in the book, they can make transformative changes.
Ultimately, this isn’t just a book – it’s the key to a living, breathing, organic process, facilitating a journey of self-discovery and self-improvement.
