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Preface

For almost ten years, I was a police officer in the inner city of Birmingham, one of the most cosmopolitan and challenging cities for policing in the UK. It was
Margaret Thatcher’s Britain in the eighties, so I saw close-up, the community at its most stressed, through the coal miners strikes and two lots of inner-city
riots. I saw thousands of people at their peak of stress, in depths of despair, and desperately unhappy. Later, as a detective officer, I witnessed many more
individuals and experiences of the human condition in its saddest state.

I thought I was happy and committed in my career, until I became profoundly aware of a growing sense of discontent that I couldn’t explain. It was as if I was
receiving a message from some “inner voice” that life had something different in store for me, that I had more to offer. I couldn’t define the message any
clearer than that, or even pinpoint its source. Later in the project, you will see as clearly as I have now come to see, where it came from.

Lacking in direction and purpose for a while, I stumbled into careers that neither satisfied my yearning for creative fulfilment nor brought me any great degree
of success or happiness.

Believing that my personal happiness lay in achievement of business success and the accumulation of great wealth, I accepted an invitation to become involved
in a new business, pioneering a new service concept.

Later, I formed a new business, learning from the experiences of the first. As Chief Executive of the business and Chairman of the trade association for an
industry that now collectively generated in excess of £300 million annual sales, I gained the respect of my peers and a comfortable life.

I had married young, at 19 to a lovely girl who was to support me through all the years of traumatic change, growth, and re-growth. We have two incredibly
bright and intelligent children, who have grown into exceptional young adults. I love them dearly and I am extremely proud of them.

With a successful business, two lovely children and a comfortable home and lifestyle, from an outside perspective, many would say that I should have been
happy.

My inner voice had guided me throughout the years and it became clear that everything that had happened and would ever happen to me was for a good reason,
and would bring with it, valuable lessons for my growth.

By my mid thirties, I found myself asking searching questions, seeking answers where I could. I sought solutions in inspirational personal development material
by highly regarded people such as Napoleon Hill, Norman Vincent Peale, Brian Tracy and Jack Black here in the UK. I soaked up the wise words of the great
philosophers like Ralph Waldo Emerson, Socrates and Plato, consumed biographies and became fascinated with the lives of the great pioneers such as Thomas
Edison, Henry Ford, Walt Disney and Andrew Carnegie.
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