The mind is everything – what you think, you become
The Buddha
HI there
It took me a while to figure it all out.
While I've owned and operated a very successful, premium garden maintenance company in Sydney, Australia for over 25 years, I had to press reset in key areas of my life, in order to really start moving forward and have a positive impact on the World.
As a young boy, growing up on the Northern Beaches of Sydney was amazing and what was even better was spending time on my Grandmother’s property in southwestern New South Wales. Hundreds of acres of beautiful, hard, flood and drought-stricken country, country that had been planted deep in my soul. Land upon which I wandered along creeks and rivers, learned how the trees and flowers grew, how the seasons turned and melded into each other, how one follows the other in a natural, clear and distinct pattern. How the winds blew through the trees, the songs nature sang and naturally how attuned I was to it all.
In love with the sound of frost crunching underfoot early on a winter’s morn or the groaning of the big pines in a summer storm. The smells of Grandma’s cooking and a freshly lit fire on a cold, cold day. The sight of freshly bucketed milk in the dairy shed and young lambs gambolling in the top paddocks.
The sadness felt as mum tells of how my grandfather died there in a horrid accident. The hard years that lay ahead.
What an impact that had on me.
How the stories shared taught me to become a wonderful storyteller.
18 years (prior to the last 20 playing in the dirt) in 5 Star Hospitality has me well versed in SERVING others, even anticipating guest's needs before they knew they even wanted it!
What a skill to learn that is.
I have ALWAYS KNOWN I would be coaching and serving others since like forever and am a highly trained life coach, accredited Core Alignment specialist, have completed DEEP studies in psychology and Human Behaviour, high performance and neuroscience, family and parent coaching, quantum mechanics and addiction (I was at war with the demon drink for far too long - now alcohol or drugs have not crossed into this body for nearly 12 years YAY!), Meditation and Spirituality, deep dive participation in some way cool psychotherapy, read over 25 000 books on all the above, over 100 000 hrs working on 'the land', in Nature, learning to use my Voice AND re - learning to walk again after a stupid accident resulting in my spine having to be reconstructed.
Hence, a few years ago, "The Mindscaper" was born, a meld of all the above, really creating Sanctuary in people's lives.
As Covid (and Winter) has put a REALLY BIG dent in my gardening business, I'm pivoting HARD back into my coaching - I have gotten way clear on my story (I've been blessed to share my story in Australia's leading treatment centre, every month for the last 11 years), am very clear on my message and FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER, now have a super signature program I can serve others with.
It's as if the last gajillion years of reading and study and blood and sweat and tears, all those lost, lonely and empty years of addiction, the Silence within the treatment centre I healed in, all my studies of all the above, a year of contemplation as my spine healed and learning to use these ol' legs again, learning to speak and use my VOICE, being loved back to Life by some way powerful womenfolk (Mother Wife Sister Daughter) have been dropped in into a blender and VOILA!
WHAT I FOUND IS THAT WE ARE SO MUCH MORE THAN OUR MINDS.