[FBShareToUnlock id=0]My terrible marriage, which had lasted less than three years, was finally over. There wasn’t even a remote hope that I could afford the enormous mortgage I’d been left to manage on my own. To make matters worse, I couldn’t sell the house because the recession meant it was worth considerably less than we’d paid for it.
The breakdown of my marriage also meant the loss of daily contact with my infant son.
I did have a job and I managed, somehow, to get myself a girlfriend.
It was when she broke up with me in November of that year that I decided I had failed.
The bottom line was this: Despite having (or having had), all the trappings of what was considered “success” in midlife – namely a wife, a child, a nice house, a respectable job, a half-decent car and some good friends, I was utterly miserable.
I was lonely almost to the point of physical pain. I was rubbish at relationships – or so I believed. I had no idea how to manage money – I was up to my neck in debt and had not a penny in savings. My days as a Dad were over almost before they’d begun.
My future was in tatters. I saw no point in continuing. I saw no point in life at all. Did I try to do away with myself? Honestly, I was too scared of failing at that too, and since I was working in mental health and had seen the fallout from too many failed suicide attempts, I chose instead to appeal to a deity I did not believe in to simply take me away in my sleep.
I wasn’t surprised – although I was disappointed when day after day I woke up.
What happened next, and the thing after that and the one after that and the one … well you get the idea … was not only miraculous but I thought also inexplicable too.
My mortgage got paid by a total stranger. (Long story, not for this book.)
New opportunities arose out of the blue enabling me to move back to a place I loved and start a new business.
New understandings were shown to me and I saw that the cause of feeling I’d failed could be dealt with in a moment – and it was.
And in time, of course, new love showed up, although that took a little longer to sort out.
But the point is: My life took an upturn in every important way. For the longest time, I thought there was no explanation for what happened to me, but it turns out there was a very good explanation – and this book will show you not only what happened to me, but how even better things can happen to you – starting right now today.
You don’t need to believe in anything or do anything like reciting mantras or creating vision boards or thinking positively. (Heck, my thoughts couldn’t have been further from positive!)
The “secret,” (which is hiding in plain sight), is so simple I predict you’ll have either of these reactions once you know what it is:
1. You won’t believe it because it’s too simple.
2. You’ll reject it because you’ll feel sure there has to be more to it.
Or maybe both.
What you almost certainly won’t do is accept it at face value first time and start putting it to use. If you did that, your life would transform immediately, but you’d be the exception – and a rare one at that.
No, you’ll tinker with it, argue about it, try to improve upon it … anything but just let it be and let it happen.
I’ll do my best to point out to you as we go along when I think you might do any of those things, but you’re only human and so you probably won’t listen to me.
But take heart!
What you’re about to learn took me decades to fully accept. With my help, you can get there in a fraction of a fraction of that time. I’m almost literally handing you a better life starting right now.
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