For now, let me go back to the year 2012.
I was straight out of university, broke, in debt, and couch surfing.
I had hardly any money to get by and it was even just a struggle trying to find enough money for the train fare to my dead-end job.
While the fact I couldn’t always find the money to actually get to work was causing me more and more anxiety every day..
I was more worried about how I was going to pay off my pay-day loans and find somewhere permanent to stay.
At that point, I didn’t have the money to take care of my debt and nobody to turn to.
After all, I’d promised my grandad (who was more like my father), a week before he passed away, that I’d be the first one in the family to go to university and get a good career.
As a man, I felt ashamed.
My grandad had put his hopes on me to do well, he’d even put the last of his savings aside to help me get through university, and I’d let him down.
It was looking like I’d have to give up on my dreams of ever making something of my life and just settle for this 9-5.
By this point, I’d invested four years and thousands of pounds into going to university, only to end up broke, homeless, and stuck in a dead-end telesales job I didn’t want to do.
Fast forward 18 months and I was still working at the call center.
I had managed to work my way up in the company and was making enough money now to slowly pay down my debts and find somewhere to live, however, I was extremely unhappy.
I was completely burnt out and I had an important decision to make – do I cut my losses or do I stick it out and try and make this dead-end job work. I knew that if I quit this job, then I would have to risk potentially losing everything and being back at square one – struggling financially, homeless, and in more debt.
Right around this time, I was recommended a book called “Goals!: How To Get Everything You Want – Faster Than You Ever Thought Possible” by Brian Tracy, a well-known self-development author.