About RagsToRich

I have lived the techniques and experiences you will read about on this site. As you can read below I have taken my life from a very low point, to a place of achievement, positivity, excellence, and pleasure.

 

I am a qualified physicist, philosophy graduate, professional journalist, and empirical scientist. I have experienced in my own life the tremendous joy to be had from developing yourself, changing your reality, and improving your life.

 

From only the astonishing things which I have achieved ever since investigating the power of the mind I know absolutely that powerful life changes begin as nothing more than thought processes – hence the name of the website. However, The Real Mind is not just about mental processes and practices, but also about taking action to make those things happen.

 

I am an extremely dedicated self-developer. Friends often note my intense dedication to personal growth. I have discovered the incredible ability of the human mind to over-haul its surrounding reality. As such I am constantly propelled further into my exploration of the knowledge to improve ones existence and taking action to make those things happen.

 

I believe things only when I have experienced them working for myself and I believe understanding can only ever be complete through experience. For you, the reader, that means that all the things I write about I have, unless otherwise stated, trailed and tested them and had them work for me. I have recently been told that I "really tell it like it is," that's a comment I would like to live up to in every article.

 

 

I remember clearly the day when I realised it was time to change everything.

 

Looking in the mirror at myself; in bad shape, with a self-rolled cigarette hanging out my mouth burning towards my lips. For some reason my attention was drawn to the crumpled ashtray I had made from kitchen foil. It was over-flowing with cigarettes and spilling on to my desk because I didn’t care to empty it.

 

My hairline was greasy and unwashed; my room was a tip, and I hadn't washed in days. I could count my friends on one hand, and to be perfectly honest, most of them I didn’t actually get on with. I had quit my job in retail a few months ago and had been unemployed since.

 

I was depressed, anxious, frustrated, alone, shy, and had no clue what to do next.

 

 

In my childhood I didn't have many friends and no siblings. As a young child I was over-active but kept to myself. Later on my inability to interact with others became brutally apparent, my social circle was practically zero. I had no social exposure; just my parents, computer games and some nerdy friends who didn't really like me.

 

Thanks to the encouragement of my parents I was academically talented and so I made it to university and picked up a degree in Philosophy. I graduated, split up with my only ever girlfriend, and had no clue what to do with my life. I took up smoking cigarettes full-time and also started taking ecstasy about three times a week. I had almost no friends, and wasn’t much of a fun person to be around. I remember being cynical and bitter, the kind of person I'd describe these days as toxic.

 

On top of that I had just walked out on my only job out of frustration. As it happens it was a 16 hour a week retail job on minimum wage. As it turns out, this was one of the better choices I made. I suppose I knew that I absolutely did not want to be trapped in the rather crumby role which the world seemed to be presenting me with.

 

I didn't realise just yet that what I needed to do to change the world was first change myself.

 

My money was running low, and my Philosophy degree wasn’t helping me to do anything special with my life. On top of that I was starting to get manically depressed about not having any real friends.

 

 

Then along the day I knew I was going to change everything; the day I looked in the mirror and had those deep realisations.

 

I remember sitting there looking at myself for over an hour, just staring myself in the eyes. I had a craving deep desire for so many missing things from my life, so many things I had just dreamt would one-day fall effortlessly into my lap like winning the lottery – beautiful women, luxurious living, top notch friends.

 

It was the first time in my life I truly realise you cannot rely on fate to get the things you want, because for the first time ever I saw myself for what I really was. I realised that it was my attitudes which were attracting the things in my life - it was my toxicity which had provided me with such a small circle of unreliable friends.

 

But I could see fire deep in those eyes. I knew then that I was going to do it, whatever it took – didn’t even know what “it” was. But I was going to do it, and do it big. I had an absolute burning desire to change.

 

Thus began my official step into self-development. I googled some information on the areas I initially wanted to change and I came across a few e-books which soon led me to a path of incredible positive change. This was in February 2007.

 

 

In a very small space of time I began to see very powerful big changes in my life - and these sorts of things happening constantly and consistently. These changes took a lot of effort, a lot of trial and error, a lot of investigation, and a massive commitment. On top of that if you begin a path of improvement you will realise that this is a path you will never be able to turn back on.

 

Within two weeks I had a new job working full time in an office and with better pay than my last; the best job I’d ever had. Over the next year I changed jobs three times, each time increasing my wage, responsibility, and each in turn being the new best job I’d ever had.

 

Today I am earning almost double what I was back then, I have a management services position at the head office of a large corporation which I am very comfortable with. In addition I’m in the process of establishing several business and moving to the European continent.

 

I took up diverse healthy eating and enjoyable physical activity. These days I have a muscular athletic physique.

 

I quit smoking, with relative ease mainly using a very basic NLP technique. I went cold turkey from smoking 15-20 cigarettes a day. The truth is quitting smoking is relatively easy, it’s just that most people aren’t properly motivated to do it even if they think they are.

 

My social circle exploded. I literally cannot keep track of the number of my friends I’ve made since 2007 - I can barely keep track of the number of social events in my calander: a stalk contrast to where I began.

 

In under a year I went from being a negative cynical social outcast who no-one was interested in being around to being the cool party-guy who everyone wants to be friends with and spend time with.

 

I realise now that before I began this journey I had no idea what a close friend was. It is utterly insane for me to think that there was once a day when I could have counted my friends on one hand.

 

In addition to the hundreds of new acquaintances I’ve made over the past few years, I have a close tight group of people I consider to be by far the best friends I have ever had in my life, these are people I would stake my life for. They are all ambitious hard-working self-developers who are living great lives and pursuing even greater ones. I believe Napoleon Hill refers to such a thing as a Mastermind group.

 

It used to be that I was often stuck for things to do; sat at home combing for new movies or computer games. These days I barely have a second to spare for anyone or anything.

 

The combination of my attitude, my writing, and my experience has put me in a great position to be able to present a useful and powerful collection of material for other people to use in their own development and improvement.

 

People often comment on my level of commitment to self-development as being inspirational. I feel honoured to be referred to in such a way, and it strengthens my resolve to maintain that dedication which I have not only to my own success but in guiding others to discover the things I have discovered.

 

If I say something worked for me, it damn well means it worked for me. I am known for being 100% upfront about everything I present; I tell with complete honesty the exact way things were and are for me.

 

This website is not only as a way of sharing the knowledge that I have obtained and made use of, but also of documenting the areas I am still finding out about.

 

On this page I have only mentioned a small part of the things I've improved in my life. The journey has been the most enjoyable time I've ever had in my life – every consecutive month, let alone year, is a step up from the last in terms of my satisfaction, happiness, achievement, and progress towards my outstanding goals.

 

The journey is your life – the one life you know you will have. Who would dare waste one second of that?

 

You can read more about my journey on my guest post over at F.I.T here.