Here’s something you don’t know about me. In 1999 I was homeless.

The 1990’s were tough for me. In 1990 I was in a car accident. I spent some time in hospital and experienced a decade of pain as the result.

In 1992 a long court fight for joint custody of my 3 year-old son cost me all my money and made me depressed. I lost the motivation to keep doing my “Mental Magic” workshops. I didn’t feel I had the right to talk to people about success. Instead, I found a day job to pay the bills.

In 1999 I got a weird viral infection and spent four months on my back in bed. I was behind with my rent. One day I came back from a job interview to find the landlord had changed the locks and put my stuff in the garage.

I was sitting with my belongings in the garage when I realized it. The thought first entered my conscious mind like a semitruck coming out of a fogbank.

“I am homeless.”

Things looked bleak. But I had a plan.

I called a friend and asked if I could couch surf at his place. He owed me some money, so in payment he gave me a laptop computer and a place to sleep.

I sat down at the computer and in a few weeks had written and published, “Mind, Time and Power!”. The book opened lots of doors. I got a better teaching job which took me to China. While there, I began selling an online course and putting videos on YouTube.

In 2007 I was appointed a university professor.

In 2009 my new wife and I moved to Canada. I used my book to create speaking opportunities. The book was also the impetus for writing some additional online courses.

In 2016 my wife and I bought our home on the water in one of Canada’s most beautiful cities.

It’s been quite a journey from being homeless in 1999 to living in the home where I am now writing this newsletter to you.

What’s the lesson here?

Well, in 1999 I was homeless but I wasn’t hopeless. I knew I had the secret to turning my life around and rebuilding myself to something better that it was before.

I didn’t have resources, but I was resourceful.

I had a vision and I had a purpose.

The vision was an image of myself using my life-changing book as a vehicle to help large numbers of people transform their lives, using the same principles I had used.

The five principles were these:

The Motivation Law.

The Attitude Law.

The Goals law.

The Imagination Law.

The Consciousness Law.

The first letters of these five laws spell the word, “magic”. They represent the powers we each possess to transform our lives. We just need to learn them and apply them consistently.

Developing a systematic approach to doing that is what all my writing and teaching is about. As a member of this newsletter you have read some of my writing about these principles.

As you are learning about them are you applying them?

In 1999 I had very little resources, but I had hope and self-belief.

I also had a plan and a strategy.

As I cultivated these resources, my plan grew from a seed into a business and a lifestyle that brings me joy and satisfaction every day.

One of the things I am most grateful for is that I have you as an audience. Knowing that you are reading this story and that I have an opportunity to serve you and instruct you and perhaps inspire you is the treasure I have been seeking all along.

You, along with my friends, clients and followers are the ‘pot of gold’ at the end of the rainbow which followed the storms of the 1990’s.

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Sincerely,

Anthony