professional career, drug addiction. I know the pain it causes, the loss of self esteem but I know that all this can be overcome and I have proved that a Comeback from all areas of failure is possible. I know this as I have made my Comeback not once but many times.
Friendships, Health, Spiritual, and Emotional issue that leave you at a point when you feel you cannot go on, personal losses - I understand and have lived them. I have spilt blood in the same mud most likely that you have, but I have overcome and I sit back now and enjoy the sweet feeling of success of my Comeback in all these and more areas. Can you see it now? Are you with me now?
This chat was not meant to be an Biography of the ups and the downs of Shane’s life. The book contains many other stories about my life, but this first chat was meant to give you a glimpse of the things I have gone through. This chat was to demonstrate, that I truly understand, appreciate and can apply the chats that are in this book and in the end as you can and will do. In the end you will be rewarded as others will around you with the best feeling and that feeling is…
The Comeback.
Chat One. DHL and FedEx
Have Success, Create Financial Independence, Get Rich Quick - that’s some of the titles I read when I go to the local bookstore to find information on any subject of “life” improvement. All of these things are important and I will be the first one to put his hand up and say yes when the question is asked, “Do You want to be rich and Famous”? But is this subject question the most important part of your life?
What I rediscovered over the three months with Mum? Was that a lot of people have no need for Comebacks in all areas of their lives, just some! You can see many successful people are really happy about the Ferrari in the garage of the big huge house, and you can see that some sports people are so excited about being Number One in the world. You can see that some people are smiling from ear to ear that they have the most successful business on the planet, but look deep into those people and you will find some misery in parts of their lives that they would gladly give some of the precious riches to fix.
Top Golfer has steamy Affair! Corporate CEO charged with sexual assault, Leading Sportsman destroyed by gambling habit, Son of Head of Government busted for Drugs, Superstar Actor enters rehab. Have you seen these headlines? I don’t have to tell you who these people are you will remember them. Their lives have graced the pages of our newspapers and magazines showing the riches and success and all the trimmings that go with it - Million dollar cars, zillion dollar mansions but Ten Cent hearts.
It’s not just the million dollar stars and success club that suffers from a script of life that needs to be adjusted or totally rewritten. Middle class, Lower class and no class society suffers from the same script issues.
The major difference is that like the top ten percent earns the most money, they also get the most press. As we trickle down the “who has what” line, our lives can be suffering the same trauma but our press is the family, home, SMS, emails, face book and twitter!
Marriage Script failure, Boy friend, Girl Friend Script problem, Health Script, Children Script, Money Script, Business Script, Job Script, Golf Swing Script to name a few. All these scripts feature prominently in everyday lives. I only have to scroll through all my face book friends and see the scripts of their lives not running according to the Directors schedule.
On an average day in face book I see “In a Relationship with” … Next day I see “It’s Complicated”. I read entries like “Mum and Dad don’t understand me” or “ I hate my customers” - kids replying to parents with the most hated word in America two years in a row “Whatever”. I can see the flirting between friends of friends. I can see online nastiness and bitching. Face book is the Tabloid of Choice for the voicing of script problems of us, the everyday people. If you want to have some fun just spend ten minutes trolling through your own face book or twitter messages, read it with a different set of eyes and you will see the direction some of your friends are taking wrongly or rightly and maybe even for you. With over 550 Million users face book gives a solid overview of strangers, friends and family scripts that are not running in the direction they maybe should be. But let’s zero in on you.
What’s your Life script that is not running according to your Directions?
Is it the Partner that doesn’t understand you? Is it Body you’re not happy with? Is it the Kids that drive you nuts? Is it the Job you can’t stand? Is it the Business that’s not running smoothly? Is it YOU that’s just plain unhappy? To Comeback? You have to know where from.
Was it good once?
Every part of our lives we write a script and original screenplay of how we will direct it. The script may be in your head, it may be written it may just be words that you have spoken, but we have a script and people, places, circumstances may have affected that Original Script along the way - and it’s not turning out to be the Blockbuster you originally planned.
When the script for the movie Back to the Future was written and it was five weeks into filming, the Director felt it was not going to work with the actor who was playing the lead role. He changed the script, hired Michael J Fox to play the lead role, re-filmed the whole picture and the Movie grossed well over 350 million dollars and went on to make two more sequels.
When the Original Star Wars Movie was written, famous characters like Darth Vader were not as high profile. Just before filming started the Director George Lucas changed the script, made Darth Vader a pivotal character and the rest is History.
Changes in Script is not limited to movies, Joanne (J.K) Rowling who write the incredible Harry Potter series of Books was turned down by no less than 12 Publishers before she found one that took a gamble. They decided to run a small print of 1000 Copies. Harry Potter books have sold a lot more than that!! Before this happened, Joanne Rowling was broke and a single mother; her script was rewritten.
Walt Disney the father of Disneyland was told his cartoon character Mickey Mouse wouldn’t be successful as it would “Scare Women”. He was also told Disneyland was a bad business idea. Walt Disney had to change his script and Disneyland and the Movie Production Company are famous - as for Mickey Mouse? Well kids all over the world fell in love with him.
Akio Morita and Masaru Ibuka were two struggling engineers who made a rice cooker that got a terrible reputation for bad quality and a habit of burning rice. They changed their script and Sony was born.
So for you and I, just like George Lucas, Walt Disney and Joanne Rowling, when things are not running smoothly and we want to create a blockbuster or maybe even shelve a project the first step of that process, and an integral part of the Comeback is to take a look at the script we are working and living with.
What do I mean by script? Some circles call it a mission statement or Vision statement but I like to call it a script.
A script is described as: “A written version of a play or other dramatic composition; used in preparing for a performance”.
I like that description as to me our lives in whatever we do can be a performance -Drama or comedy!
Now whatever we are trying to achieve in our lives, our relationship, our health our Business or working life we have a script attached to it. As I have stated before it can be written, thought, even just spoken about. But in all cases we have set the scene for the performance and if it’s not going as planned and too many scenes are being shot without you the Director calling “CUT”, well we need to take a look at the script and possibly make some adjustment.
Now I’m writing
