Mentoring for Personal and
Economic Freedom
About Paul Counsel
Paul Counsel is a bush kid at heart who grew up witnessing the struggles of profoundly Deaf, working class parents locked away in the isolation of the Tasmanian bush.
When Paul began his schooling, his teachers had no idea that his parents were Deaf and they expected him to behave like all the other kids. But this made no sense to him because his language was sign language and he was used to the freedom of the bush. So his early schooling was more about survival than true learning as he was continually challenged by the ill-treatment of early teachers and religious orders.
This pattern continued through his teenage years so he eventually left school at an early age to seek his own way forward. And this is where his story becomes like many stories - get a job, work hard, behave yourself and society promises that everything will be alright. So for 25 years, he followed this wisdom only to end up dead flat broke.
At age 40, Paul Counsel's debts were greater than his income. Not only this, with his income generating potential, he didn't have a clue as how to reverse this situation. Then one day, it suddenly dawned on him that if he kept doing the same things, he couldn't see his way clear of preventing the continuation of dwindling finances and increasing costs. So he made a life changing decision. He decided that he no longer wanted to be imprisoned by the lack of money and thus began his quest for both economic and personal freedom.
Like others before him, Paul made a crucial and life changing decision. "Never again was I going to be in a position where I felt that I almost had to beg for a living. I determined that I was going to become wealthy – financially free – and never be dependent on jobs, wages, commissions or economic fluctuations ever again."
Approximately 3.8 years later, as a result of all that he had learned and applied, he achieved his dream. "That’s right, starting from dead flat broke, in just under four years I had achieved my dream of financial freedom."
Paul began by reading books with a naive logic which suggested that if others could become rich, why not him. Until this time, Paul had definitely not been a big reader and could count the list of books he'd read on one hand. His early attempts at creating wealth were not all that successful, and if his share trading results were any guide, he was doomed to failure yet again.
However, Paul has a couple of qualities which make him a bit endearing and a bit of a hand full at the same time. He has a belief in himself that no set of circumstances, challenging times or painful lessons have ever managed to shake. Once he sets his mind on something, he targets it with a laser beam focus. He reasoned away his initial ups and downs, and his early failures, as just the price of learning, the price of entry to a much bigger prize.
At some point, on his quest for financial freedom, something fell into place and he started to see patterns in his own behaviour and the behaviour of others and it's the discovery of these patterns that made all the difference.
The first (and shortest) part of Paul's story ends with him achieving his first net million dollars within three years and eight months of his decision to escape the incarceration of 'lifelong job ready servitude' and 'debt'.
He was now a millionaire but this was not as important to him as the peace of mind and the space and freedom that came with it.
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The people around Paul form part two of his story. As is so common in our communities, when someone declares an intention to become more than they already are, the community looks on with mild interest and an unspoken, "He's gone mad but he'll be back to normal soon". This was exactly the case for Paul however scepticism gradually transformed into, "How in the dickens did you do that?"
Generously, but simplistically, Paul decided that if he could achieve economic and personal freedom, anyone could do it! All he needed to do was share the patterns he had discovered and all they needed to do was develop the will to succeed. So he invited his friends and their families around on Saturday mornings to teach them what he had learned and observed along the way.
Over the years, this successful sharing brought more and more people into his energy orbit. It also allowed more and more people to escape the isolation and stress of increasing debt and dwindling finances. His early teachings rapidly grew into weekend seminars in which participants were eager to learn what Paul was exceptionally skilful at doing - making money using the tools and strategies readily available to anyone who cared to look, learn and do.
Part two of Paul's story ends with a hugely successful seminar company, thousands of graduates of his courses, multiple new millionaires, a buzzing membership organization and countless people now experiencing the freedom they had always dreamed of.
However, on Paul's part, there was a growing dissatisfaction, unease, anxiety and many unanswered questions, questions, and more questions. Although there were thousands of graduates, in Paul's view, there were too many who had not yet become financially free. He remembered a question from his childhood, a question that Professor Julius Sumner Miller always posed, "Why is it so?"
Paul made a decision to go after the answer. To give him the freedom to explore, Paul gifted the resources, management and ownership of the seminar company to a group of his graduates so that he could begin another quest.
He had observed that while it was easy for graduates to pick up the tools and how to's of wealth creation, there was something powerful stopping the majority from actually using them effectively.
Paul observed that as soon as people stepped out of the learning environment, the 'future pull' of their busy, demanding and often competing and contradictory world of enculturation took over. Much as a stone disappears when dropped into a pond, the ripples remain for a short while then all too quickly the pond settles as if there never any movement. The intention and opportunity of his graduates to create change was swallowed by powerful internal and external distractors.
So Paul set out on another quest to work with and learn from the most powerful and productive teachers around the world. Cumulatively, he has travel the world for years, singularly focused on learning more about the latest thinking, strategies and trends, so that he is better able to share his learning with other like minded people.
This brings us to the exciting third part of Paul’s story. Based on his close personal interaction with thousands of people, his constant research into the leading edge of the science of personal change and the fact that he has actually done what he is offering, Paul has created a unique program for economic freedom which is highly personal, breathtakingly empowering and literally is ...."an apprenticeship with someone who eats, sleeps and breathes economic and personal freedom".
A word from Paul...
"A life of peace, choice, financial abundance and time freedom is the desire for many people yet most never set out on the quest to achieve such as state. Why is this so? When current research suggests that the majority of Australians have only one month's savings on which to support themselves if things go wrong and that a third of adult Australians now use alcohol to relieve the stress of jobs, commuting, relationships and financial struggles, you've got to start observing that something is not right. In fact, the current experience for most people is a sad comment on the way enculturation organises their lives. In terms of financial freedom the ways of conventional wisdom simply do not work.
My definition of wealth is the amount of time you can afford to live a lifestyle of choice, satisfaction and peace of mind without ever having to work again. By my definition most Australian's are one month wealthy. Many cannot even manage one month. Such a situation need not remain the status quo. Economic freedom begins as soon as you start to think differently. It begins as soon as you start to acquire a body of knowledge that already exists. It exists in the minds and experiences of wealthy people. It exists in the minds and experience of those who achieved what you want to achieve.
Our greatest asset is our ability to learn and to do that learning quickly. If you are not learning new knowledge you are being left behind.
Economic and personal freedom is about gaining an understanding of numerous wealth vehicles and how they can be used to create a future based on freedom and choice. It's about applying energy to this knowledge and investing in doingness. Wealth creation is moving from the survival and servitude instructions of conventional wisdom to the freedom and adventure of a different wisdom. It's about being 100% responsible for your present actions and being 100% responsible for what you do from now on. It's about making effective choices and gaining control over outcomes rather than remaining controlled by a social system engineered for mediocrity".
As Paul often says, "In life, you're either the map maker or the map reader. So who are you? Are you mapping your own territory to freedom, choice and prosperity or are you unconsciously following the map of enculturation's 'life long job ready servitude'? Sadly, most people read the map enculturation has set before them and no matter how hard you work at following this map, when you're the reader of some one else's map, the results are always less than you're capable of achieving, less than your true potential."
"Knowledge liberates - knowledge is power. The saddest thing about any man is that he is ignorant. The most exciting thing is that he knows."
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