If you are searching for a way to improve your life and enjoy the fruits of that improvement, which is why I assume you are here, you have finally come to the right place. I am a speaker, trainer, life coach and entrepreneur, but above all, a fellow human being who understands exactly what is holding you back from true success - more about what success really is later - and how you can overcome this. I know what you are thinking right now: "When there are a multitude of speakers, trainers, life coaches and various other 'gurus' who are only too eager to have me part with my money in exchange for advice on how to live a better life, why should I listen to this guy?" Have you ever read a so-called 'motivational' book or listened to a 'motivational' speaker and felt that the author or speaker was missing something, even though you were not quite sure what it was? After reading many 'motivational' books, I had the same feeling and was determined to find out what this missing thing was. 

The short answer to your question of why you should consider listening to me is that I have found this MISSING TRUTH and personally experienced the inspiration that flows into your mind when you are integrally connected to your higher Self and purpose, and the truly creative action and the miraculous results and inspired life to which these lead, proving the (highly scientific!) formula:
                                                      
                                                              INSPIRATION X ACTION = RESULTS²

Because I know this formula is true through applying it to my own life and experiencing many miracles as a result, I know I can help you to discover the truth of this formula for yourself and experience miracles of healing and abundance in your own life. For the long answer to the question of why you should listen to my retreats, you'll have to read this whole page and then come to one of my introductory talks.  

But first, you probably want to know a bit more about me and why I can claim to know a 'missing truth' that almost everyone else is missing. Firstly, what I'm not: a millionaire business owner, retired sports star, celebrity, self-styled 'guru' or professional speaker whose only claim to fame is that I have spoken (and charged!) a lot. I'm actually just an ordinary guy who has, through a process of much searching and many VFE's (that stands for Valuable Failure Experiences, in case you are wondering), truly understood this extraordinary MISSING TRUTH buried beneath the weight of social memes arising out of people's collective conditioned egoic fears and desires. 

Not only do I know this truth, but I can, at least according to some people who have listened to my interviews, a live talk or presentation, been on my workshops, been coached by me or read my articles, explain what it is and how they can apply it to their own lives quite well:  

MORE ABOUT ME

Not only have I read extensively on subjects as diverse as psychology, health and wellness, business, religion, philosophy, science and spirituality (and quite a lot else!) during my 37 years on this planet, I have had a few interesting life experiences that have helped me to crystallise the concepts and theories I have read about into a practical, livable  philosophy that results in both inner peace and joy and  experiencing abundance in every aspect of life. I read my first 'motivational' book at the age of 12, a classic called Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill (which you can download free by clicking here if you would like to read it) and decided that I wanted to be a billionaire by the time I was 40 as well as the world champion squash player! School at King Edward VII School (KES) in Johannesburg and university, where I studied Business Science at the University of Cape Town, majoring in Finance, Accountancy and Business Strategy, did not quell my optimism, and still dreaming of that world championship title, I went to the UK to play professional squash for nearly 3 years, and traveled quite extensively during that time to play tournaments in the UK, Europe and Africa. 

I came back to South Africa in 1999 having been told to leave the country by Her Majesty's Customs Service (but that's a forgiveness lesson I won't expand on now - come to one of my retreats to find out more), and needing to earn money from something other than squash, which is not a very lucrative sport (and that's an understatement!), started my own web development business in 2001. In 2003, an old school friend and I teamed up to create Lifebuild, an online personal development portal. In 2007, I started the Lifebuild Property Investment Network to help people to create financial freedom for themselves through property investment. I am a property investor myself and have been involved in a number of other business ventures - not all successful, I might add - over the last 10 years, so I guess you could call me an entrepreneur as well as an adventurer. I am currently preparing to launch a new community called the Positive Movement that will connect positive people and inspire positive change in society and the Lifebuild Prosperity Inspiration Network that will show people how to become financially free and create wealth in every aspect of their lives by providing them with revolutionary products, services and training to support them in living a far more intelligent and conscious lifestyle, as well as an opportunity to market these products and services and earn a large regular income from doing this. 

Over the last 5 years, I have personally organised, marketed and delivered a series of public talks and workshops around South Africa where I have talked about how to overcome fear and how to become wealthy through investing in property. I was interviewed in 2009 on SAFM radio by Michelle Constant about the benefits of meditation and life coaching and I have been quoted in a number of articles published in magazines such as 'Destiny Man' and the Foschini Club magazine recently. I have spoken in South Africa and internationally for many organisations over the last few years, including SA Rugby, The Holiday Club, Sportron, Smile Education, Propgroup, Brockhouse Cooper, Rand Mutual Assurance, Wirsam Scientific, Braby's / Ananzi, Transstate, SuperGroup, Sun International, Norbain, Momentum, The Department of Water Affairs and Forestry, GNLD, Barker Insurance Brokers, Southern Spoor Marketing and Global Gold Club.

To cut my fairly long life story short, I have had a few interesting life experiences and some fairly profound realisations on my journey through life so far, the essence of which it would be my great privilege to share with you if you choose to attend one of my Lifeshops™. Keep reading to find out more about my Lifeshops™ and how to start living a life that is integrally connected to your higher Self and purpose so you find your 'flow' in life and let wealth in all its aspects flow into your life....


PERSONAL ALCHEMY WEEKEND RETREAT LIFESHOPS™

AT CLEARVIEW LODGE IN BROEDERSTROOM, HARTBEESPOORT:

Dates: Thursday the 23rd of September, 2010 - Sunday the 26th of September, 2010
Times: 7 p.m. – 10 p.m. (Thursday)
            6 a.m. - 10 p.m. (Friday)
           6 a.m. - 10 p.m. (Saturday)
                6 a.m. - 5.30 p.m. (Sunday)
Venue: Clearview Lodge, Broederstroom 
Investments: R3,950 per person or R6,950 for two people sharing a room

Amount quoted above includes:

- Accommodation for 3 nights;
- All meals and refreshments;
- A course pack with written notes and exercises supporting the sessions you will participate in;
- Access to video recordings of all the sessions during the retreat;
- Access to over 5 hours of interviews with me on how to live an integral, balanced life;
- A CD with a recording of the guided meditation session you will do every morning set to binaural beats;
- A one-hour one-on-one coaching session with me after the retreat;
- An email revising the content covered during the retreat every week for a year;
- An inspirational quotation every working day of the week;
- Discounted attendance at discussion groups held every 2 weeks in Johannesburg.



AT THE NOVALIS UBUNTU INSTITUTE IN CAPE TOWN:

Dates: Thursday the 18th of November, 2010 - Sunday the 21st of November, 2010
Times: 6.30 p.m. – 10 p.m. (Thursday)
            7 a.m. - 10 p.m. (Friday)
           7 a.m. - 10 p.m. (Saturday)
                7 a.m. - 6.30 p.m. (Sunday)
Venue: Novalis Ubuntu Institute, Wynberg, Cape Town
Investments: R3,500 per person or R6,500 for two people booking together

Amount quoted above includes:

- A light dinner on Thursday evening and lunch, supper and teas on Friday, Saturday and Sunday;
- A course pack with written notes and exercises supporting the sessions you will participate in;
- A CD with audio recordings of all the sessions during the retreat;
- Access to over 5 hours of interviews with me on how to live an integral, balanced life;
- A CD with a recording of the guided meditation session you will do every morning set to binaural beats;
- A one-hour one-on-one coaching session with me after the retreat in person or via telephone;
- An email revising the content covered during the retreat every week for a year;
- An inspirational quotation every working day of the week.

IN PONTA D'OURO, MOZAMBIQUE:
 

Date: Thursday the 16th of December, 2010 - Monday the 20th of December, 2010
Times: 2 p.m. – 10 p.m. (Thursday)
            6 a.m. - 10 p.m. (Friday)
           6 a.m. - 10 p.m. (Saturday)
               6 a.m. - 10 p.m. (Sunday)
           6 a.m. - 1 p.m. (Monday)
Venue: Phambuka Camp, Ponta d'Ouro, Mozambique
Investment: R4,950 per person sharing a bush tent with communal bathroom
                     R5,500 per person staying on their own in a bush tent with communal bathroom
                     
Amounts quoted above include:

- Transport between the SA-Mozambique border and the Phambuka camp site in Ponta d'Ouro;
- Accommodation for 4 nights;
- All meals and refreshments, including one dinner at a restaurant in Ponta d'Ouro;
- A course pack with written notes and exercises supporting the sessions you will participate in;
- A CD and DVD's with audio and video recordings of all the sessions and the swims during the retreat;
- Access to over 5 hours of interviews with me on how to live an integral, balanced life;
- A CD with a recording of the guided meditation session you will do every morning set to binaural beats;
- A one-hour one-on-one coaching session with me in the fortnight after the retreat;
- An email revising the content covered during the retreat every week for a year after the retreat;
- An inspirational quotation sent to you via email every working day of the week;
- Discounted attendance at a study and discussion group held every 2 weeks in Johannesburg.

On these life-changing retreats, I will be showing a maximum of 12 people per retreat in the beautiful and tranquil surroundings of Clearview Lodge in Broederstroom near Hartbeespoort that has spectacular views of the ancient Magaliesberg mountain range, the Novalis Ubuntu Institute in Cape Town and the natural rustic surroundings of Phambuka dive camp in Ponta d'Ouro in Mozambique how to transmute the lead of ego and all its dysfunctional effects in their lives into the gold of Spirit and all its beautiful and powerful side-effects – inner peace and happiness, good health, loving and trusting relationships, a higher purpose or calling in life, financial wealth, abundance in every aspect of life and a balanced lifestyle. By attending this workshop, you will be taken on an experiential journey to find the real ‘You’ beyond the roles and games you play and will be shown how to transmute the lead of your old, egoic self into Spirit to set yourself free from guilt, fear and all the other negative emotions that stem from these twin demons and find the golden truth within you that you have probably been missing all your life. 

It is only through living in an awareness of this awesome MISSING TRUTH that lies within you that you can experience peace, love and joy and the outer circumstances you experience in your life can be transformed to reflect this golden inner state. Without this awareness, you are lost in a world of illusion that will only cause you to suffer, no matter how much material wealth or success you may appear to have; with this awareness, nothing that is in or of this world can stop you from living in a state of peace, love and joy and spreading this to others in your own special way.

This way, which is completely unique to you and your life, is what I call your special function or purpose in this lifetime and is the way that Spirit will help you to discover through giving love to others in what you do that you are love and nothing else, giving you the answer to the ultimate questions of who you are and why you are here in the process. One of the primary objectives of the retreat is to help you to discover your purpose, special function or calling in this lifetime, which is your destiny or 'dharma' as they call it in the East, the quickest path for you to walk in order to learn the lessons you came here to learn and transform the lead in your life into metaphorical gold. 

It was these same eternal questions that the ancient art of alchemy sought to help its students answer. The true alchemist of old practised alchemy as a process intended to transmute the false lead of his ego or lower nature into the golden perfection of his true and divine nature in his own awareness. The symbolic reflection of this inner transformation was their ability to turn physical lead into gold by fully understanding that everything that was apparently outside of their physical bodies, including the lead and the gold, was in fact a projection of their own minds and therefore they could transform lead into gold by believing completely that the lead was gold. Therefore, the true alchemist was concerned with finding the truth and using these powerful truth principles to manifest whatever he and others truly needed rather than with personal gain from being able to make gold out of less valuable lead. Only when their faith in these principles became so strong that it became a certain knowing rather than just belief would they have become master alchemists and be able to teach others the true alchemical path to enlightenment.

The task of the modern student of alchemy is to transform the leaden aspects of his or her life - be it poor health, poverty, dysfunctional relationships or any of the many other manifestations of the demons of guilt and fear that plague most people's minds and therefore their lives - into gold by relinquishing the egoic self that creates these leaden circumstances in people's lives and re-discovering that he or she is really pure Spirit, a higher Self that is above and beyond all the grim and heavy manifestations of the lower, egoic self.

Entrepreneurs are the modern-day counterparts of the ancient alchemists, as they have the ability to create wealth out of nothing and do the seemingly impossible - Mark Lamberti once defined entrepreneurship as 'the art of doing the impossible with impossible resources' - so if you are an entrepreneur or wanting to become one and are afraid to take that leap of faith required to start your own business, this retreat will help you to find the inspiration, courage and direction to do that or to take your existing business to the next level by finding the real meaning and purpose of it in your life.   

This transmutation can be brought about by practising various techniques and disciplines to become a master of them, including meditation, prayer, forgiveness, being present, laughter, breathing, diet and exercise. The workshop will cover all of these  'integral transformative practices', as Ken Wilber, one of the world's leading philosophers and spiritual teachers, calls them, showing you how to do them consciously with awareness, creating the right internal and external environment for spiritual growth and ultimately, enlightenment, to happen. As Vimala Thakar once said, “Unless you put the house of your life - the physical and verbal structures - in order, the urge for exploration of that which is beyond time and space will remain only a wish in the mind. If there is disorder in simple things of life like diet, sleep, exercise, breathing, trying to build a structure of exploration will be like building a house in the sand." 
 

   

If you are looking for the same old 'just think positive, set goals and become successful in the world' message you have heard and read repeatedly said in a slightly different way, which is based on an incorrect perception of what the purpose of life really is and therefore does not really work, this workshop is definitely not for you. 

If you have tried many other tools, techniques, approaches and philosophies and / or attended other workshops, courses and retreats and yet you are still searching for the total inner peace and joy that you know deep within you is possible, as well as the extraordinary and magnificent life you will experience when you live permanently in this state, and are willing to re-evaluate everything you think you know about the world and yourself and go through processes designed to help you release the toxic emotions you have been bottling up inside you in order to find this peace and joy, I can promise that you will find the answers you have been seeking on this weekend.

"How can I make such a bold claim when all other teachers and approaches have failed to deliver that which you so ardently seek?", you may ask yourself? Because I have found these answers through my own spiritual journey and so can teach you the answers and how you can bring your mind to recognise these answers as wholly true and any other ideas as false.

Of course, the spin-off benefits of finding the inner peace and sense of higher purpose that comes when you know the truth about yourself and what we call life that sets you free from guilt and fear and inspires you to start singing the 'Song of your Soul' are profound, and we will explore how finding and living in this state of peace motivated by a sense of deeper meaning and purpose than just getting by or acquiring large amounts of material wealth will profoundly transform all aspects of your life - your health, your material wealth (paradoxically!), your w business or career and all your relationships, along with some practical 'how to' techniques and strategies that will help you tremendously in your journey of awakening after the workshop, such as:
 

You can also click here to see a video clip of me in action giving the introductory part of a session on 'naming your game' - the game our egos play to sabotage our lives and our success - that is one of the most important sessions that will be held during the retreat. 

MONEY-BACK GUARANTEE

If you feel at the end of the retreat after participating fully in all the activities and doing all the exercises that you have not received value for money and you do not know how to transform your life and find the inner peace and sense of higher purpose you seek, you only have to ask to be given a full refund of your investment for the retreat.

BE THE CHANGE YOU WANT TO SEE IN THE WORLD... 

The world is changing rapidly and if we as individuals want to keep pace with the changes and be able to function in the new world and society that is emerging as a result of these profound changes and the corresponding shift in consciousness, we need to take responsibility for transforming ourselves and our lives in the process so they are in alignment with this new consciousness. The world may not be ending in 2012, which is the end of a 5-125 year cycle in the Mayan long-count calendar, but all the experts on the Mayan calendar as well as many other psychically intuitive people predict that it will certainly herald the end of the world and life on Earth as we currently know it and the start of a new and more enlightened golden age for humanity - if we, as the dominant species on Earth, let go of the old selfish and destructive consciousness and behaviour that stems from it and transform into a higher consciousness based on universal, unconditional love and respect for all life on this planet. If we do not make this shift as a species, we will have created our own destruction and will either go extinct or drastically reduce our numbers and no longer be the dominant species on the planet. 

It is the 11th hour of our civilisation and everyone is being called to choose what future they want for themselves and humanity. The question you have to answer is not, "Will change happen?" - it's already happening rapidly and will continue to do so - but rather "What do I choose to do about it - will I be part of making the new world to come a more conscious and a better place to live for all life, or will I resist changing and hope for the best?" Your best and most positive answer to this second question is to come on this Personal Alchemy Lifeshop™.

But don't believe me about the transformational effects of the workshop: here’s what a few attendees at the Personal Alchemy Lifeshop™ and previous workshops I facilitated have written about me and their experience: