How a single dad with 3 children heads towards financial freedom. Why not join me on the journey?

This is my very first blog.

In equal measures I am excited and nervous!  Excited, because this is a great opportunity to make lots of cash. Nervous because I have so much to learn. What will be key therefore, is determined action coupled with Alex’s’ (plus team) great coaching. Well, what do you want to know? I am 41 (gulp), separated but in a brilliant relationship and have 3 fantastic children – all girls aged, between 5 – 11, who are my entire life!

My background is in finance. Banking for 11 years and asset finance for past 12 nearly (last 2.5 years self employed). I had a traditional, limited upbringing of studying hard, getting good grades, job with a good institution for life (plus pension). Very Rich Dad, Poor Dad! The problem with this is that there is no room for entrepreneurialism or role models for that matter. The result is being moulded in to a ‘boring’ reliable type and you do whatever you are asked to do. You keep your nose clean and do additional exams & a BA Hons before you rise the slippery pole to the board room. What an exciting life…..

It was at the Southampton Boat show one year that the realisation dawned on me. If I was going to own a Sunseeker 64 foot Manhattan boat, then I wasn’t going to achieve it through working for my employer. At £1.9m, it was naturally above most employed people’s budget. I was only fulfilling somebody else’s dream and not mine. That realisation made the gulf between employment and me grow every day.

So in 2007, I went alone! We had a great 6 months but the Home Loan crisis in America in November 2007 started to make things unpredictable. The flow of bad news funnelled through to the UK and subsequently in August 2008, the world stopped! Recession had arrived! Income levels just stopped overnight and brought the problems that go with that! I will never again have a credit card debt! Here’s the thing: I am so glad we had a recession. It allowed me to realise that working in finance is both boring and thankless. Service levels from finance companies were pretty s**t, and they didn’t care…at all! I also realised my passions were elsewhere in being entrepreneurial, and even if I had worked my guts out (which I always did), I would never make it ‘big’. I also leant much more about money, people, companies and I loved every minute with the kids, so naturally grew as a father.

So along came Brian Tracy. He introduced me to Gary Ryan Blair who set me off on ‘goal setting, commitment to excellence, Law of Attraction and to expect success’. Noting the compliments I had received on me being a Dad, it was easy for me therefore to write a book on how to raise children successfully, which I have literally just finished. Watch out therefore for my blog about this exciting subject. At that time, I met Alex through my accountant and the rest is history.

What do I want from my future? Well without doubt, I want to have a significant amount of passive income coming in on a monthly basis. The recession has taught me to respect money much more so am now trained to deal with it! The other thing is freedom. By setting goals and achieving them I can create greater freedom for me, my family and my relationships, thus leaving a great legacy for when I am gone.

To infinity and beyond!