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      How losing $20,000 changed my life

      • Dr Greg Schreeuwer
      • June 10, 2016

      It’s been a while since I’ve posted something on the blog so I thought I’d take a moment and share an experience with you that I went through recently, that might provide some value, insight and perspective.

      Over the past 6 months, I have gone through one of my greatest challenges to date. I honestly thought that going through a divorce was tough but this one really takes the cake. In December, I decided that I wanted to scale my business and take it to the next level financially. My reason for doing so was simple. My fiancé and I had recently bought a property and I knew that I needed to build up my business and therefore my income, so we could manage everything moving forward.

      I chose to invest in a company to help me position myself in the market and generate more leads. I signed on with them and spent about 4 months working with the team to get everything put together. This included me writing a book and the team building a website and a landing page and getting a marketing funnel and system all worked out. This process was one of the most stressful experience I’ve ever been through.

      Eventually launch day arrived and everything was looking good. I had over 100 requests for my book and about 12 people booked themselves in for complimentary strategy sessions. I was feeling optimistic. It seemed like my hard work and their hard work, together with all money I invested, was about to pay off. I was soon to find out that, that wasn’t the case. A few weeks passed and after speaking to a number of different clients and having zero conversion, I started to get nervous. I was still spending lots of money but my return was zero. I wasn’t sure what to do.

      I woke up one morning, started getting ready for work and one of the clients who’d booked herself in for a complimentary session cancelled. A switch inside of me flipped and I got super angry. I wasn’t angry at her. I was angry because this decision I’d made wasn’t moving me in the direction I wanted to go. In fact, it was costing me more and more money. I was giving so much value away. I decided I needed to cut the team loose and for us to move in separate directions. I needed to preserve myself.

      On the way back from work that day, it hit me. Clarity! This was the type of clarity I had never experienced before. All of a sudden, after a whole day of working with clients and a few hours of introspection, the vision just dropped in my head. In one moment of inspiration, my target market, my ideal client, my message, my service and my vision appeared right in my mind with such crystal clarity that all I could see was the path. For the first time in my life, all the pieces of the puzzle fell into place.

      The gains didn’t stop there. Although I initially perceived that I had lost all this money I’d invested, I started to see what that investment really paid for. I became aware of an unconscious pattern of mine that had been driving me to create success in my business and and financial life that I was completely unaware of. When I saw it, everything made sense – all the failures, road blocks, dead ends and the lack of growth of my business. Imagine having 100’s of light bulb moments all at the same time. That’s what I was experiencing.

      My ego, for the most part, had been governing every action and intention I’d set and this one action of investing so much money into scaling my business and it not working out as expected was the most humbling experience I’ve ever gone through. Let me explain some more.

      When I was younger I was bullied. To add more challenge into the pot, I went to a private Jewish day school from Year 2 onwards. My family came from a different financial background than the kids at school so I couldn’t even really compete or be on the same level as them. I created a belief in my mind that the only way to be appreciated, respected, valued and loved for who I am was to make lots of money and become popular (influential and successful). When I discovered this pattern, I was angry and not happy with myself. What I hadn’t quite realised was that the void I had been trying to fill for all these years, was already full. I didn’t need to be successful, wealthy or popular for people to love me because my friends, family and clients were all showing me how valuable I was and I didn’t need any of those things. In fact, they all loved me and appreciated me for just being myself. What a crazy idea, right?

      It is sometimes hard to be grateful for taking these kinds of steps and discovering that they didn’t unfold as planned but I can tell you today, that I wouldn’t change it for anything. I now feel so connected to my purpose and I know that I am loved whether I succeed in business and become wealthy or I don’t. My job now is to share my message and vision so people can benefit from what I’ve learnt and become powerful leaders and inspired visionaries, mastering their destiny instead of playing victim to their history. Life is all about lessons and the lessons appear when they’re supposed to. With all the developments that are coming in the next year, now was the best time for this to happen. If it had happened earlier in my life, I know I wouldn’t have been mentally and emotionally prepared for what would lie ahead and I certainly am grateful it hasn’t happened later after getting married and starting a family.

      As I always teach my clients, pain is the messenger. It’s important to pay attention and listen to the feedback it provides. When we ignore pain, we just create more of it until we reach a point when we can’t keep hiding from it anymore. If you’re going through something similar, embrace the challenge you’re going through and ask yourself how this experience is benefiting you and helping you grow and be on purpose in your life. You may uncover your soul’s purpose and wouldn’t that be an awesome thing to find?

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      Is there such a thing as too much pressure?

      • Dr Greg Schreeuwer
      • February 5, 2015

      Over the last few weeks I have been exploring, not because I consciously wanted to, the concept of pressure and how it can impact my life. Some of my clients have been dealing with a similar challenge and I thought it would be a great idea to post something about this today, to leave you to think about.

      For some time now, I have believed that the harder I work, the better the result. Even though that hasn’t been true for me in the way I’ve gone about it, that didn’t deter me. Being an entrepreneur and health professional, I fell into the trap of ‘all entrepreneurs work crazy hours and don’t switch off because that’s just the way’. I started to realise pretty quickly that this concept doesn’t apply to all of us out there. We all have different approaches to life, business and how we manage ourselves.

      What made this idea stand out even more in my mind that it’s not a ‘one size fits all’ way of looking at life was when I had a personal training session about 2 weeks ago. For the last 4 years, when I have trained at the gym, I have a specific way I like to work out. The movement is slow and continuous. The weights aren’t super heavy and the sessions are short and sweet. I decided to try a different approach with my person trainer. I pushed heavier weights, worked harder and a bit faster. As a result, I came very close to passing out after I was done and to add to that, I was out of action for 5 days. It took too much of a toll on my body. It became very obvious to me that working out in that way and also applying that same mindset to the way I do business, is not for me.

      Then I asked myself, is there such a thing as too much pressure? Well that all depends on who you are. We all have different ways of handling life and this is determined by the way our body and mind operate. Some of us love being quick and on the go, pushing hard and achieving massive goals in a short amount of time. Some of us love to move slower and take our time, pacing ourselves and seeing a bigger picture before we take action and achieve our goals. Every one is different and that’s what makes life so interesting.

      So before you take your next action step towards achieving your goals, ask yourself – is this the best set forward for me or am I trying to be like someone else? The answer to that question could help you save time, energy, money and most importantly, prevent you from getting sick or feeling emotionally stuck.

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      How 2014 has helped me learn how to be more vulnerable

      • Dr Greg Schreeuwer
      • December 18, 2014

      16 months ago, I arrived back in Australia from living in Canada for one year and separating from the person I thought I would be spending my life with. I was broken, depressed and totally unsure how my life would turn around after what I’d been through. It was unexpected and not something I would have consciously chosen at the time.

      Now, as 2014 is coming to a close and as I reflect back, I can definitely say that these last 16 months have been some of the most profound, nurturing, empowering and self-fulfilling in my life. For those of you who have experienced a separation, divorce or break-up that impacted almost every area of your life, this post is for you.

      You would think that after what I went through, my desire to open myself up and connect with people would be something I’d prefer to steer away from. That may be true for a lot of other people but I made a decision that I wasn’t going to allow my past to dictate my future. I have worked hard at it this year and even though bits and pieces sneak in when I least expect them to, for the most part, my past is where I’ve left it – behind me.

      With all the lessons I have learnt over this past year, there is one that stands out and continues to teach me more as I move forward into 2015. One of the challenges I’ve faced in my life, as a result of being bullied a lot growing up, left me feeling like I needed to protect myself and guard myself from pain, hurt and discomfort. As a result, I pushed people away and also tried so hard to change others in the hope that I could avoid feeling any of the confronting situations I might find myself in. The universe or nature has a way of making sure everything is balanced and my life was no exception. I was scared to drop my guard and be vulnerable and allow myself to experience hurt. Unfortunately and fortunately, I experienced everything I was desperately seeking to run from.

      The pain of doing whatever I could, to run from what I perceived could hurt me was enough for me to say to myself – “It’s enough Greg! You need to make some changes.” And that’s exactly what I did and am continuing to do. The more I opened up and allowed myself to be more vulnerable, the bigger the opportunities that started coming into my life. I met someone who I love, who constantly and continuously encourages me, challenges me and inspires me to grow into more of who I am. I stepped out of hiding within my own business to give people a chance to connect with me, work with me and see what I can do to be of service to them. I even took a giant leap in my career towards to securing my financial future as well as the future of my vision and mission within my business and I started the journey of speaking and teaching which is something I love doing more than anything.

      I am still a work in progress and there is still more soul searching to do but I am grateful for what I’ve done this year and where I am today. Last year, the idea of this all happening for me was a foreign concept but I couldn’t let all of that stop me from what I know I’m meant to do with my life and that’s to help people transform their challenges into opportunities, open their hearts and minds, empower themselves to be bigger and greater than they ever thought possible and to be inspired from within to go and share their magnificence with as many people as possible.

      I’ve learnt that being vulnerable doesn’t mean I’m weak or that I’m necessarily going to be hurt by other people. That’s what I used to think. What I now know is that being vulnerable takes courage and strength because it means I’m putting myself out there, letting people in and even inviting challenge, pain and conflict to be a part of how I live my life.

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      Post your thoughts in the comments section below.

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      Stop allowing fear to control your life

      • Dr Greg Schreeuwer
      • August 31, 2014

      How much of your life is governed by the fears you have? Do you stop yourself from doing certain things that you would love to do because you are scared of failure, getting rejected or maybe not being good enough? What about any of the fears you have about certain social or health challenges you face or could be confronted with in your life? Do those scare the crap out of you to the point that if you had to deal with any of them, you’d want to eliminate them, delete them from your life or find a way to create an ‘anti’-dote for them?

      The majority of us deal with fears on a daily basis ranging from fears around failing to be a success in business to being in financial crisis to worrying about whether or not the guy or girl we like is going to reject us or keep us around. Without us even realising it, we make decisions and take certain actions in our lives that have fear as the major driving force. We stop ourselves from saying how we feel, from pushing boundaries, taking risks in business, choosing to be who want to be and the list goes on.

      We have been taught that confronting situations that challenge us are something we need to avoid, run from or eliminate somehow. As a society, we fear things that we don’t understand fully, like cancer or the current bullying issues that are affecting children and adults worldwide. Our lack of education around these big issues or illnesses pushes us towards making choices that actually lead to even bigger challenges. We want to make laws to criminalise bullying. We want a world with peace and no war. We even think that we can bypass nature somehow and eliminate bacteria from the planet. In doing so, this has lead to an increase in childhood allergies. We try to play g-d at every turn, wanting to live in an illusionary world with no challenges, with no illness and no conflict. When did human beings become so fearful of living? When did we choose to believe that we somehow have control over the laws of nature? At what point did we lose respect for the flow of life and the order of things?

      I recently had a conversation with someone about all of these fears people have around some of the biggest issues that the world is dealing with today. Bullying and cancer were the two topics that came up, which I’ve blogged about before and spoken about at length. I suggested that the reason why human beings may have an aversion to dealing those issues and confronting them is because they’re scared of what they could mean and how their lives might dramatically change as a result. I mentioned that they are so scared of getting connected to who they are, uncovering the power that they have inside of them and doing something meaningful in their lives.

      It was at this point that I offered an idea that I know challenges a lot of people, to such a degree that the very notion of going down a different road that could create change in their lives scares them even more than the situations they might be in. When human beings are faced with significant road blocks in their lives like cancer or bullying or even changes in their relationships, it appears that the easiest option is to run from the pain, avoid the problem altogether, cut it out, reject it or push it aside. My advice, based on personal experience as well as observing powerful changes in my patients and clients lives, is to step towards the pain that hurts the most and find out why you created that pain for yourself. Only when you can truly understand the pain and struggle you’re confronted with, can you change it. What most of us don’t realise is that we have the power to change our lives, to alter our trajectory and heal whatever ails us. We have it all inside of us but if choose to avoid what hurts us or could even kill us, we miss out on some of the most valuable lessons, points of feedback and inspired ideas that we could ever receive.

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      How The Be Who You Wanna Be Youth Summit Changed My Life

      • Dr Greg Schreeuwer
      • July 21, 2014

      About 4.5 weeks ago, I hosted an online youth summit, featuring 25 speakers from different parts of the world. I had the idea for this event in 2012, when I was living in Canada. Originally, I wanted to put on a live event and stream it across the globe but due to the expense of such a production, I delayed it.

      In March of 2014, I collaborated with Suli Breaks and 2 other speakers in a live event in Sydney, Australia. For the first time in over 14 years, I had the opportunity again to perform on stage – this time a little differently to when I was younger. I can’t even describe to you how fulfilling it felt to be doing something that I love so much. The next day, I decided I wanted to finally put on this summit but instead of doing it live, I chose to deliver it online.

      The pre-launch period began at the end of April, for people to start signing up. It was moving quite well and considering it was my first event, the turn out was actually looking quite promising. After 6 weeks of registrations, the summit officially began and it was in that first week and through the experience of various other moments after that, that my life took a dramatic and unexpected turn.

      Not for a moment, did I think that the youth summit would prepare me for the incredible journey I’ve now embarked on. In fact, I had very different expectations for where I thought it would take me or how it would impact my life. None of my initial expectations were met but what I did uncover was far greater than I could have ever imagined.

      For most my life, or at least 25 years of my life, I have been hiding who I am, in varying degrees, from the world around me. I have been trying to be someone that I’m not and trying desperately to live a life that is centred more around what I perceived I should have or be instead of what was and has been right in front me. For those of you who know me, I was bullied quite significantly when I was growing up. Those challenges definitely impacted the way in which I managed and dealt with my life, from how to manage money, my social interactions, relationships with women and even my health.

      After spending 2.5 weeks facilitating and hosting this summit, I realised all of this to be true. I couldn’t deny it any longer. I wasn’t being myself. I was hiding behind all the speakers, my branding, my logo and everything that I had created. Although the message has always been my own, I wasn’t taking ownership of it. I was denying my self and potentially, my ability to actually thrive in several areas of my life. So, I made a decision which has challenged me to the core of who I am. In all honesty, I was left with an internal conflict and wasn’t quite sure how I was going to resolve it. Thankfully, after a discussion with a wise friend of mine, I chose to follow through with my decision. The website that you’re on, right now, is as a result of that decision.

      I sit here, before you the person reading this, sharing who I am with you. Everything you see on this website is a reflection me. I have come to understand that my vulnerability is far more powerful than I would have ever thought it to be and hiding that part of myself away has only attracted one challenge after the other until I learnt to let go and open up myself and my heart to others. It is an opening for those of you who would love to connect and one where I can be of greater service to those that need what I am able and would love to offer.

      Since I made that decision to expose myself and launch this website, my life has changed and it was all thanks to the youth summit. I have chosen to re-integrate chiropractic into how I provide my services. I went back to my roots. The kinesiology technique that I developed just over 3 years ago, is now available as a healing tool. I have met and connected with several people who I will be collaborating with on several projects, in the next 6-12 months and I’m incredibly grateful to have met someone new and very special to me who, with her deep appreciation of me, is showing and reflecting who I have become, how I’ve grown and who I am growing into. All these blessings bring tears to my eyes and are clear indications that when you choose to go after what inspires you, what energises you and what fulfils you, you can master your own life. One year ago, I don’t think I ever would have thought my life would take the turn that it has but I will say this – I wouldn’t change it for anything.

      Not only has this summit made room for new and exciting adventures in my life but I now have a very clear path towards creating the Be Who You Wanna Be Institute™. My end goal is help the kids out there be everything that they can be in life and embrace one another for who the they are. I am starting from the ground and building my way there, sharing my message, my story and everything I can that will give future generations of children a chance to live empowered and fulfilling lives, collaborating and working together to create change for human beings on the planet.

      Finally, if there’s one lesson you can take from this post, it’s this – be who you are, embrace your differences, think in a way that challenges the status quo and do whatever it takes to live a life that inspires you and fulfils you with a purpose that burns deep within your heart. When you take that action step and make the choice to do so, the universe or whatever it is you call it, will deliver and it will blow your mind.

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      How Being Bullied As a Child Shaped My Life

      • Dr Greg Schreeuwer
      • May 27, 2014

      In the last few weeks, I’ve been faced with a number of different challenges. Some of those have been related to my business, others have been related to my financial affairs and the remainder of them linked to my social health. Through every single one of these challenges, I was able to identify a number of different patterns of behaviour that have been running my life since I was a very young child.

      Recently, I read an article online about the lasting impacts that bullying can have on your life, not just as a young person but as an adult too. At the time I read this article, I was aware of certain effects bullying has had on my life but it wasn’t until a few weeks ago that I truly became aware of the challenges that I’ve had to endure as a consequence.

      Before I continue, allow me add one thing. In no way, shape or form am I about to blame or have I blamed being bullied for how my life has unfolded. Nor will I blame anyone else for how I am today. This post is purely for the purposes of bringing awareness to what changes can be made and how the challenges that we face, as a result of childhood bullying, can be transformed into challenges that significantly push us to be more of who we are so that we are able to do what we love.

      When I was younger, I physically stood out. I had big ears that could be seen from a mile away. I have mentioned this before. As a result of this, I was over-protected and, at the same time, put on a pedestal. Two actions that, although done with absolute love and good intention, impacted the way in which I have grown and evolved as a human being. My growth and my lessons, I can now be grateful for because I have seen the value and benefit of it all – although, it has taken me close to 28 years to get to this point. To me, that’s an unnecessary amount of time to be disconnected from who I am but I am thankful for this because of the lessons I have learnt, that I would love to share with you and many others like me.

      Just yesterday, while doing some breakthrough work on an old pattern, I uncovered a significant truth about my life that I know has been holding me back for a very long time. I chose this path in my life because I was taught, at a very early age, that it would serve me. I’ve come to learn that, although it has served me by teaching me something very valuable that I get to explore with others, it stunted my growth, altered my perceptions of reality and my unconscious actions. Even if I wanted to, I couldn’t have changed this path in my life. It was neurologically hardwired and I had no awareness of how to re-pattern my brain and create new actions or intentions for myself.

      You might be wondering what I learnt? When I was younger my over-protector was a female. It doesn’t matter who it was but the gender is important. As a result of getting continuous support from a female in my life, I attached the idea of safety, security, comfort and fulfilment to that gender. Since my ‘bully’ was always a male or male dominant female, I attached the idea of risk, danger, discomfort and lack of fulfilment to that gender. When I grew up, I had my ears pinned back and for the first time, in my perception, I was noticed by girls in my social circle. Naturally, because I associated more pleasure than pain with females, I gravitated towards them and isolated myself from males. At 17 years old, I started working and that time I had a girlfriend. Prior to getting all this attention from females, it seemed like I was never on their radar so when they finally gave me attention, coupled with earning money, I did whatever I could to keep that attention. Why? They made me feel safe, secure, comforted and fulfilled. All of which I was unable to provide for myself and wasn’t encouraged to do by that particular gender.

      Fast forward to the present day. I am currently divorced and have been, for a number of years, experiencing challenges in my business and my financial area of life. Not only that, but getting close to a male for support, security, comfort and fulfilment has not been an option. The reason for this? A pattern that I had no idea was on autopilot in my neurology and had been that way for a very long time. The universe did whatever it could in the last 10 months to make sure I didn’t continue on the same path that I’ve been on for the least 28 years of my life. My best friend, who also happened to be my ex-wife, helped me, with her divine wisdom, start to realise that. She did so by separating from me and doing what she could to break my unconscious need to keep that pattern alive. She may not be aware that she played that role but I recruited her to do so, unaware until now.

      I choose to share all of this with you for a very specific reason. It is a reason that has been the essence of why I started my company and why I am dedicated to empowering youth around the world to be who they are and do what they love with their lives. It is my purpose. The reason I was bullied was not because there was anything wrong with me, nor was it because I had big ears. I was bullied because the balance of support and challenge from the one person who needed to provide it for me at the time, wasn’t present. It was definitely there, as it always is, but not within the one person who could have altered my fate and sent me down a different path.

      I am not a parent or a guardian of a child so I don’t claim to be an expert but if there is one thing that I have learnt in my life it’s that we require a balance of support and challenge in equal measure, for us to grow. We always receive it, without fail, but if the people that guide us as we grow aren’t balanced or centred within themselves and are operating on old patterns of fear and judgement, they tend to make choices that revolve around them wanting to save us from their own pains and challenges. Little do they realise that by doing this, not only do they bring more of that pain into their own lives but they land up imprinting that onto us as we’re developing. It is evident with many of the anti-bullying strategies that exist today. It’s all about ending the pain instead of understanding it. All that it’s done has created more bullying for us to deal with, until we can truly appreciate the lessons and blessings that underpin it.

      Bullying can be transformed. It can never be eliminated because we need challenge to push us in life. The form in which we receive it may change but it’s what creates growth, not only in us but in nature and the universe as well. As a child, being over-protected instead of receiving both support and challenge equally from that one person, left me with a one sided reality about how to live my life and it took me a lot longer than necessary to uncover my true worth and value. Like I said, I am grateful it happened the way it did because it has given me a purpose on this planet and a mission to create change. I can see that it was necessary for me, so I could deliver this message, but it can change for everyone else and it’s time we applied a different approach to this dynamic. It’s not evil. It’s not something we need to destroy or eliminate. It’s something that requires understanding and a new set of actions to transform it into something that is both productive and constructive.

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      Accepting Your Fate

      • Dr Greg Schreeuwer
      • May 19, 2014

      I am sitting at my computer today, surrounded by the hustle and bustle of people as they do their shopping, stop for a bite to eat or grab a quick coffee. I am being totally present with where I am, watching the scene unfold around me. This morning, however, my attitude to my life was completely different.

      This morning, I woke up and felt like a total mess. I looked at where I am in my life right now, angry about everything and feeling frustrated that my life hasn’t turned out the way I was hoping it would. I was being a victim and seeing everything in my life as the biggest nightmare. There was no gratitude for today when I woke up. In fact, I just felt like giving up. Do you ever feel like this, when life just isn’t going the way you think it’s supposed to? Well, now you know what I was feeling.

      Not to be one who allows myself to stay in that space for too long, I grabbed my computer and a bottle of water and walked up to the shops to do some work. I wasn’t entirely sure where to begin to start breaking through my crazy perceptions. The walk, mixed in with some uplifting music, definitely started the shift. I knew that I wasn’t fully accepting my fate, after everything that I’ve gone through over the last 10 months.

      After I arrived and sat down, it started to become clearer to me. Life doesn’t always work out the way you thought it would and that’s actually ok. I began to see where everything that I want, I actually have in my life in other forms. Forms that are actually serving my highest good right now but I’ve been wanting the old familiar forms that I’ve had in the past.

      I haven’t completely broken through yet but I felt inspired to share this with you because this is something that happens to all of us. Life throws us something out of left field and everything changes. The path that you were walking on is not what you’re familiar with anymore. In fact, it can sometimes feel like you’re walking backwards instead of forwards. You question everything you’re doing and whether it’s right for you. You doubt yourself and all your decisions. What lies in front of you now is an abyss rather than a roughly painted path ahead.

      It’s in these moments that we get stuck, lose perspective and also develop an overwhelming fear of growing. One of the hardest things I’ve had to do in my life is accept my fate – my reality as it stands. I know that this often plagues all of you too but let me ask you two questions – how would it be a disservice to your life to reject your reality as it is right now? Would you be living in your memory or in a projected idea of the future instead? Every moment we are given in this life is precious and there is as much a blessing in those moments as there is a curse. Nothing in this life is ever one-sided. When there is loss, there is always gain. When there is a down, there is always an up. It is our responsibility to ourselves to seek out the other side, balance our minds, gain some perspective and be grateful for where we are and what we have.

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      Vulnerability Is The Key To Life

      • Dr Greg Schreeuwer
      • May 10, 2014

      Some of you may know, who have been following my blog posts over the last year, of the challenges that I’ve faced within my personal life and career. I can say that these last 10 months have been some of the most emotionally taxing, mentally draining and equally as uplifting and fulfilling that I have ever experienced.

      For those of you who don’t know, about 10 months ago my wife and I decided to separate and I had to leave her and face a life changing direction in a way that I had never expected or even anticipated. The whole experience literally turned my world upside down and I was faced with a reality that I didn’t think I’d ever be able to make it through. I left Canada, where I was living at the time, and returned back to Australia to be close to my family and to heal.

      I went through so many emotions, I can’t even begin to count – from sadness to loneliness to grief to anger to frustration – the list could go on. I was an absolute mess and totally lost. Never in my wildest dreams did I foresee what I was faced with. There were moments when my emotions were so overwhelming, that I didn’t know whether it was worth being where I was. In my mind, it wasn’t what I had planned and I couldn’t accept what had happened.

      Thankfully, I was able to hold it together and I started the slow and often confronting journey of healing this very raw and open wound. I spent most of my time isolated from the world, working on myself, speaking to very close friends who were there to guide and support me through the process. I put myself into my career and the work that inspired me. I did what I could to push myself through, while doing all the personal development work to get me to the other side.

      I had relapses along the way and fell into moments of depression and deep sadness and then about 4 months ago, in February of 2014, I hit a brick wall that I hadn’t seen before. And believe me when I tell you, I had hit many of them in the last 10 months. I remember walking into my parents room at the time and just feeling totally lost. I had no idea who I was anymore, what I was supposed to be doing with my life or where I was meant to be. I seriously felt like giving up and then, by chance, the universe delivered someone into my life who brought me back from the abyss I found myself in. For the first time in a very long time, I hired a coach to help me out.

      We spent 6 weeks working through my stuff and it was in those six weeks that I found who I am. I remembered who that guy is. I discovered my purpose, tapped back into my mission and I found the love I’d lost hidden in my heart the whole time. After 9 challenging months being separated from the one person that has meant so much to me in this world, I found her again in my heart and literally, 5 minutes after I had that experience, she contacted me.

      This post is dedicated to her and to those of you out there who choose to stay hidden and don’t allow your true self to shine through. Since that breakthrough and the start of what I look forward to being the career I’ve been dreaming about, my heart has opened like never before. I have felt connected to others, embraced others and chosen to go down a path of really giving so much of who I am to so many people out there who really need it.

      I’m not sure if any of you have ever truly felt the loss of someone who means so much to you but if you have, you will all know how painful that can be. The loss of my wife was excruciating but it taught me something that, through our marriage and the many years of my life before that, I hadn’t yet understood or learnt. I learnt that it’s ok to be vulnerable. It’s ok to open yourself up and let people in. It’s ok to show who you are and that doing so does not mean that you are weak, inferior or not worth it. In fact, being vulnerable is what lets people share in who you are. It’s what allows you and others to embrace each other and feel connected.

      It’s not often that people can say that they love the person that they were once with and it’s less common for someone to say that they love them even more. In my case, I can say that I feel this way. My wife tried so hard to teach me how to be who I want to be in my life and because of my own history with being bullied and feeling inferior, I built a wall that kept her out and many others in my life. I protected myself from pain and hurt and sadness only to experience it in the most confronting way. I have been able to see the impact bullying has had on my life and it has made me incredibly sad but also incredibly fortunate. I have developed the awareness of how to be different within my own life and to show other people how to do the same.

      To end off, I will definitely say that, in this crazy life that we live, when you least expect it the universe delivers a blessing into your life. We often take these blessings for granted and it is only after the fact that we learn to appreciate them for the ways in which they contributed to our lives. Please make sure this doesn’t happen to you. Whatever your struggles are or whatever pain you’ve been through, find a way to heal those wounds instead of allowing them to interfere and create even bigger and even more overwhelming challenges to face in your lives.

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      Life Is Meant to Be Lived

      • Dr Greg Schreeuwer
      • March 29, 2014

      I decided to have a quiet night in and I put on a copy of The Secret Life of Walter Mitty. I’ve watched this movie before but something was urging me to watch it again. The first time I saw this movie, it took my breath away and reaffirmed so many of the decisions I was making at the time. Not only that but it helped me see that jumping in the deep end of life is not necessarily a bad thing.

      After spending the last 2 hours watching it again, my heart is filled with joy and I am feeling a renewed sense of inspiration as I look forward towards the journey I’ve laid out for myself. Every so often, when we get caught up in the challenges that life throws our way, we forget to step away and look at what we have accomplished and where we’re heading. We overlook what’s right in front of us and get lost in the story that’s playing out in our minds and imagination.

      One of the greatest mysteries in life is why we are here and what is our purpose? We spend every waking moment looking for the answers to these two questions. It doesn’t matter whether we’re working in a 9-5 job or aspiring to be world changers – we all ponder over these two questions. Why is it so important to human beings to know the answers to these questions? Is it because we are lost or have no idea what we’re doing or is it because we know deep down inside that we’re meant for bigger and greater things and by seeking out the deeper meanings of our existence, we’re actually fulfilling our potential in this life, one moment at a time?

      One of the most fulfilling and the most challenging journey’s I’ve been on was making the decision to go on a quest to uncover and discover who I am and what my destiny in this life might be. I have travelled across the globe, felt the sting of a broken heart, mended it, worked on myself, made new friends and realised that I have something incredible to offer this world. I realised something so valuable while I was on this road, seeking out my inner self. We are all scared to be great. We fear being who we are because the idea of being that person seems impossible and implausible. We fail to recognise that beyond all the crap that we hide behind, is a human being that is unique, special, one of a kind and ready to share something amazing with other people and the only way to truly let that person shine and be seen is to take one step forward.

      We can only achieve our greatest desires by taking the risks in life that we’re afraid to take. Life waits for no one. It is there to be lived yet we stand by idly, watching it pass us by. Now is the time to be great. Now is the time to be ourselves. We are destined for this. We are born for this. It’s what our families and the people we love have wanted for us from the moment they caught a glimpse of us. It is a disservice to them and a disservice to us to stand on the sideline of our own lives. It’s time to get in the game, get dirty, play hard and start scoring some goals. That’s living. That’s life.

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      The Time is NOW!

      • Dr Greg Schreeuwer
      • January 8, 2014

      For so many years, I have been teaching people about taking action and doing what they love with their life but for those same amount of years, I actually haven’t been taking the actions that I truly wanted. I have been holding myself back.

      Almost 3 years ago, in June of 2011, I came up with the vision for Be Who You Wanna Be International and it was and still is, the most inspiring vision I’ve ever had in my life. I’m not sure what I was doing when it happened but it just downloaded into my brain and I sat there completely humbled and excited, all at the same time.

      Since the conception of that vision, I have built a resource that I am extremely proud of; with interviews, videos, articles, blog posts and more, yet the one thing I haven’t done, as an action, is actually step into my vision and bring the service to who I’m providing it for – the children. So after a bit of a talking to I had with myself, I made a decision that the time is NOW! There is no point waiting any longer to share my message with children.

      So, here I am declaring the launch of the next phase of Be Who You Wanna Be International where I get to share my message of helping children to be themselves, think different and do whatever it takes to create the life they love.

      I am thrilled to announce that I am releasing a brand new program called, The Bully Breakthrough Game Plan® which is a two level program to assist children to breakthrough bullying, empower themselves and their lives. The first level is called, Beat The Bully®, which is a 2 week intensive process that I take children through to transform bullying in their lives and come out an empowered child. The second level is called, Save The Children®, which is an 8 week process that I take parents through in order to empower them into a stronger position to continue assisting their child to maintain confidence, self-esteem, self-worth and how to navigate through challenges in life more effectively.

      This new program is the beginning of so much more to come out of this business and is the lead up to the next phase of our growth, which will be happening in the next few months. That will be the launch of our 8 month program called, The Be Who You Wanna Be Method®, which we will be placing in the school system as a self-empowerment program to help children achieve a creative and collaborative relationship with one another, through the transformation of bullying, rejection, isolation and so much more.

      Today is my action day and I urge each and every one of you to step into what you love. It can be easy to get stuck behind the fear of doing what you love as well as holding onto guilt about how that may affect or impact the people around you – especially if you choose to make yourself a priority in your life. The only thing you will do by giving into fear and guilt is become a disservice, not only to yourself, but to the people you would truly love to serve in this world.

      If there is one thing I can leave you with, it’s this – if you waste your time doing what doesn’t inspire you, you hold yourself back from doing what does. Honour who you are, respect who you are, trust that you can get there and just go and do it.

      If you’d like to find out more about The Breakthrough Bully Game Plan®, contact the office at info@bwywb.com and we will send you more information.

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