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Excerpt from the introduction to Gavin's new book 'The Success Cell':

I’ve always operated under the basic premise that the majority of us are created pretty much equal. Success does not depend upon your IQ or your parents’ social or financial status. Although there are a few unfortunates who are born missing a limb, or with less than the normal five physical senses, most of us are similar in our mental and physical faculties. Sadly these gifts of birth, having not been paid for (at least by ourselves, although by the time we leave the nest our parents may have found us to be the most expensive acquisition of their lives), are treated as our least valued assets. In fact we often forget them completely and risk life, limb and sanity in the various pursuits of youth (whether legally sanctioned or otherwise). Sometimes these pursuits of youth are engaged in well into the time when youth itself is something of a distant memory. Alas all is not lost. There is, in every life, a time for change and for you, the reader, that time began when you picked up this book. This is a path to change which I heartily recommend, but not one I took myself. For me the change came the hard way, when everything fell down around my ears.

I was a ‘successful’ business owner. My customers were large National and Multinational corporates. I had a growing property portfolio and had just secured the funding for my next property venture. I had a beautiful, charming, fiancé, was building my dream home, and had almost completed the construction of the professional recording studio which would give me the creative lifestyle I had always wanted. I ate in the best restaurants and drank the best wine. I travelled as I wanted and bought the things I desired. The future seemed brighter than ever before. In my own eyes, and the eyes of many others, I was a success. Six months later everything was gone.

Now there were reasons for each one of the failures I experienced in those terrible six months, and quite legitimate reasons which could be used to absolve me from all blame, but I realised right then and there that ultimately I am responsible for my own life. Although it wasn’t easy, I picked myself up, put myself back together and asked the most important question anyone can ever ask; ‘What did I do wrong?’ It turned out there was no one answer and that in fact I’d got quite a lot of things wrong. I realised that if I’d been wiser, although I couldn’t control the circumstances which had taken me down, I could have put myself in a position where these circumstances did me minimal or no harm. Alas this had not been the case and my task now was to use the lessons of failure to breed success in the future.....

......So was my life a write off up to the day of my big crash and burn? No it was not. There were many experiences in my life up to that point which have contributed to who I am and what I do. Life is an ongoing journey and all experiences can be used for good by the person who determines so to do. In my lifetime I’ve been a self employed businessman, a musician, a song writer, on the organising committee of a large annual music festival, a recording artist, a radio announcer, an electronics technician and a telecommunications engineer, a director of a band management company, a telecommunications company and a recording studio. Some of these things are still a part of my life whilst others have passed their usefulness but no-one could say that I had been one of those unfortunates who had never done anything with their lives.

It’s since my great crash and burn, though, that things have really stepped up. In a few short years I’ve travelled extensively, become an author, furthered my song writing and recording career, consolidated my music marketing company, married a woman who exemplifies virtue, intelligence and beauty, developed several new entrepreneurial ventures, and undertaken the study of success training, psychology, religion and philosophy which has enabled me to develop the principles outlined in this book. Incidentally, as you may gather from the previous statement, some of the information I include here is available in other sources, and a list of my reference material is appended to this publication, however I have found the combination of the above fields of study to shed new light on what have previously been quite separate and disconnected areas of knowledge, and it is this new and holistic approach which I intend to share with you.....