Mind Power Author Stephen Richards

Mind Power Author Stephen Richards
MIND POWER AUTHOR - STEPHEN RICHARDS

Saturday 5 October 2013

The Good, The Bad And Ugliness Of Life Adds To Our Flag Of Fortitude!

After winning a huge scholarship and going to college, I went to work for a company. Of course, being the youngest there I was given all of the dirty and tiresome jobs. I stuck it out there for a few years, and then while travelling to an onsite job for the company in my newly acquired car (on finance), a car pulled out from the lane inside of me, its back end clipped the front wing of my car and I found myself in a car spinning out of control. Eventually a rather sturdy lamppost stopped the car as the back end ploughed into it. I was off work for a few months with a very badly strained neck.

Although I was officially “on sick leave”, a friend of mine asked if I wanted to go part shares in a garage (large enough for all of two cars) that was coming up for rent, this was an automobile repair garage. Well, I must admit, I had no experience at this, but was prepared to do all and anything if it meant being my own boss.

I thought that while I was recovering that it would be good to do something to get me on the mend, so I accepted. After a few months of running the garage, long story short, I had forgotten all about my job I was on sick leave from. I rather enjoyed the garage work and found myself enthralled by this new adventure.

I never went back to my old job, as co-running that garage was a big achievement for me. I now had control over my destiny, I was my own boss. It meant I could value myself, feel good about myself and make as much money as I wanted, or so I thought.

I continued working for myself and being co-proprietor of the garage with my best friend. However, soon my life was to go out of control just like the car wreck that put me into this position when, due to circumstances beyond my control, my friend hung himself and that was the end of the garage business.  

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Friday 4 October 2013

How Mind Power Author Stephen Richards Was Spurred On To Success By Negative-Minded Talk

Although I left school with the usual qualifications and went into an electrical engineering apprenticeship, I was just a rodent in the mill of life. I wanted more for myself than to see out my working life as a worker ant. After a few more dead end jobs I saw an ad, it invited the applicant to apply for a scholarship to go to college!

Thankfully my ignorance allowed me to apply. After attending the exam some few hundred miles away from home, I just thought to myself that I had better get on with my life in the slow lane. However, I eventually received a letter saying I had won a $10,000 scholarship and was invited to enroll. This might not sound like a lot of money for a scholarship, but it would be something like the equivalent of $20,000/30,000 nowadays.

So when I received the letter about winning the scholarship, well it was just the icing on the cake. However, the college was hundreds of miles from home, and it would mean me staying in the college halls of residence, and just visiting home every few months. I talked it through with my mother.

I felt guilty about accepting the scholarship as it would mean leaving my mother and younger brother. What spurred me on, though, was a friend of my mother’s saying to her that I would never stick it. After my mother told me what she said to her, well I firmly decided to prove the woman wrong and accepted the enrolment offer.

Long story short, I stuck it out and passed all of my exams and I proved the woman wrong. That was an achievement in itself, as many a time I just felt like walking away from it, but what spurred me on was “he’ll never stick it”.

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Wednesday 2 October 2013

Sometimes Success Can Come When You Least Expect It!

I was keen to progress in life, and my boss at that time paid for me to take driving lessons, as I asked him about driving the company delivery van. Looking back on it, I guess he saw it as an opportunity to have a company driver, but could get away in paying low wages as I was only 17-years-old.

The day of the driving test came … I failed!! Even though I was primed and ready to pass!

The second time I took my test, I had been out drinking the night before, slept in for my 8am driving lesson before my test at 9am, and on top of that I had a hangover! So I wasn’t really too bothered about being knocked out of bed in that state.

I can’t even recall the driving test, but then the examiner said, “I am pleased to inform you that you have passed your driving test.” “What?” I thought. I was awakened from my hangover and could have kissed the examiner, although the examiner was a male!

That achievement meant a lot to me, as I would be accelerated to the status of “driver”. Did I get a raise in wages? No, but so what ... I had passed my driving test at the age of 17!

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How Wealth Angel Stephen Richards Got The Courage To Speak In Public

My one certificate of achievement which I do treasure is my English Speaking Board Certificate. Although I was pretty poor at written English as a subject, I excelled at English oral. In fact I was probably the best speaker in my whole school.

The school used to send me to do talks at schools where the following year’s intake was from. My role was to talk about the school they were to join after the summer break.

That gave me the courage to talk in front of sizeable audiences. In fact I didn’t ever have any fear of this, but it showed me how to grab attention and what made people listen as a group, It was to stand me in good stead years later, and I am thankful for that early learning curve. 


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An Accidental Achievement In Wealth Angel Stephen Richards Life

I played so many sports for my school and county that it would seem like I was just bragging, but overall I achieved a lot, and an accidental achievement which  taught me something about myself was when I was competing in the area schoolboys’ athletics.

This was like a mini Olympics for the area. I was entered for the shot put event, and while waiting to do this I was asked if I could fill in for someone absent in the javelin throwing event. I came nowhere in the shot put competition, and it was my turn to throw the javelin, which I never really excelled at.

Well, I came third! Nowhere in the shot put, but third in the javelin! That was an achievement that made me realize that it was always worth trying something new, and to not feel complacent about what you do now, as I was favorite to win the shot put competition. I had won various power lifting competitions as a youngster, but all what I learned from that was to advise anyone not to take up this sport, as so many of my joints are now creaking because of it, so I guess I can pass on my wisdom about this.

 
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ONE THING MASSIVELY CHANGED WEALTH ANGEL STEPHEN RICHARDS LIFE!

As a child I experienced quite a lot of trauma, and looking back on it I can see why I was a bed wetter, also known as nocturnal enuresis, until I was 15-years-old! Some might be ashamed to reveal this about their past, but I feel quite the opposite … by talking about it I am help others. I mean, if someone like me can talk about it then it becomes less of a taboo subject. If you have a child bed wetter then tell them about me, how this guy who is a world famous  author once wet the bed and could see no end to the misery of it.

Some claim that the child has a smaller than normal bladder, or that constipation can trigger bed wetting in a child (but I certainly wasn’t constipated for all of those years). I didn’t have a urine infection, which some say is the cause of bed wetting. One cause of bed wetting in children is the lack of an antidiuretic hormone which the pituitary gland secretes, this is supposed to slow down the production of urine by the kidneys so we don't have to wake up to urinate, but that wasn’t the case with me. Difficulty in waking up is also cited as a cause of bed wetting in children, well that one’s rather obvious ... isn’t it? It doesn’t take a brain surgeon to work that one out! Part of the brain is supposed to stay awake so it can tell you to wake up when you need to urinate.

Anyway, the doctor prescribed me one of these mattress mats that trigger an alarm which goes off when it detects moisture as a way of overcoming this. This is called “sleep conditioning”. The alarm would everyone up except for me; in the end the acid in my urine eventually rotted the metallic mattress mat.!

As I got older, bed wetting caused no end of frustration within me. I was angry at myself for what was happening. Of course, although many things are cited as being the cause for bed wetting in children, hardly any mention trauma, which was the cause of my condition. Eventually I was strong enough in the mind to overcome the problem; my life had become more settled after the early trauma I had suffered as a young child. I mean, seeing someone put a gun to your mother’s head as a three year old is not conducive to good psychological health. I suppose if it were only that one thing I experienced then I may have got over it, but I saw so much more!

However, when I was eventually in control of my bladder, I was released from my prison. I could stay at school summer camps without fear of being ridiculed. I could drink late at night without fear of the consequences. Perhaps that achievement helped me excel at sports and made me more confident within, although that confidence led me astray a few times.

Of course, if I knew then what I know now … well, certainly I would have had the ability to lift myself out of that trauma. I see a lot of “deep trance” hypnotherapy stuff for use in child bed wetters, but that certainly would not work on a child that has endured trauma. Those sorts of things are deep within the mind, not the sort of thing such deep trance audios should be used on, it requires in-depth, expert help.

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How Wealth Angel Stephen Richards Turned His Life Around At Age 11

Walking is easy. It’s so easy that no one ever has to teach you how to do it. That’s the same with Cosmic Ordering … when you were a child that is! What I have to do is roll you back to when you were an empty vessel. Stay with me and reinvent yourself!

I know you probably won’t but I want you t just sit and think of everything you have achieved and have and write them down. I would also like you to write WHY each one is an achievement to you.
 
What were your first achievements?

My first achievements were learning the months of the year, telling the time and tying my shoelaces. Although it may not have meant a lot to some, it meant a lot to me at the time as I could feel my brain starting to work, as school to me was alien. School was not introduced to me and neither was I to it, it was something I just went to, no one explained why this torture was being imposed on me. I was left-handed but forced to write with my right hand … caused a lot of trouble in my head, or so I thought looking back on it.

So years later, when I was 11-years-old, and I was taught these things out of school, it made me realize what learning was. I had no idea of why I was alive or even just me, that sort of existence didn’t come into any sort of equation for me. After that I started to learn to read, I had a thirst for it. My brain had been awakened.
  

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