From Self-Doubt to Inspired Living

I have a picture on the wall of my six-year-old self. I’m running carefree into the sea, oblivious to the awful red woollen swimming trunks that hang down to my knees when wet: a young boy full of life, dreams and expectations.

Here I am, just over half a century later, and inside I am still that boy, marvelling at the joy of life and still full of expectation. I am grateful every day for all of my life, and that is part of the secret.

My life began with a career at sea as a navigator and continued with building successful businesses. Then choices I made sent me onto a path of self-destruction. I left my wife and beautiful children and went from someone at peace with life and who I was to someone who hated myself. For ten years I set about destroying much of what I had built until I found myself alone and in enormous debt.

“As I look back, that was truly the best thing that ever happened to me.”

During the last years of that descent, I opened the door to spirituality. I read avidly and slowly worked out a routine for myself. With it came happiness and inner peace of a kind I had never experienced before. I began to take pleasure in the simple things again.

I rebuilt my relationships with my children and family. From nothing, I built another business, repaid a half-million-pound debt and created the freedom to help others.

ThinkMiracle is spiritual, but not religiously prescriptive. I use the word God because it feels right to me; another person may speak of spirit, the universe, intuition or the quiet voice within. I am not here to tell anyone what they must believe.

The tools I share are the practices that helped me. Many are free, offered in the hope that they help you move towards greater happiness, inner peace and a life that feels genuinely your own.