Böcker av Jennifer Mears

MY UNLIKELY JOURNEYIn 1994, finally acknowledging the inner discontent I'd lived with for so long, I abandoned my attempts at a corporate career. Instead, despite my introverted personality, I chose to consult back to corporate. I could see that most corporate inhabitants were also suffering and I was convinced that there was a better way. My goal was to help businesses find their soul, but it proved difficult, given that I had yet to find my own. That's when, against my better judgement, I was talked into attending a ten-day workshop that would profoundly alter the rest of my life. It was tough, but oh so revealing. I found myself peeling back layer after layer of who I'd become; my deeply embedded synthetic identity. For the first time I came face to face with my irresistible need to impress the world, and the terrible personal cost of my dysfunctional belief system. It was exposed for being more destructive than I'd imagined. I'd learned more from my father than I'd cared to admit. Despite the personal growth which the workshop and subsequent events gifted me, I remained committed to the material journey I'd always been on. I knew no other way. As it turned out, despite the material success of my consulting business, I eventually had to lose almost everything before stumbling, per chance, across the self-accountability path which had so far eluded me. Only once you've been there, can you truly comprehend what others have experienced, and what it takes to rescue yourself from what could so easily become the end of the road. As difficult as it was to pull off, I knew that I'd have to dig deep, put on a brave face and be accountable for who I'd become; and, yes, how I was going to find my way back. UNLOCKING THE POWER OF SELF-ACCOUNTABILITY, is the culmination of that journey. It's a compilation of my insights, knowledge, models and unconventional approach to restoring body, mind and soul. It's about unshackling from the dysfunctional marinade we're immersed in, and which, despite the pain, we've been convinced into believing is our heaven. Thereafter, it's about equipping you with all that you'll need to become an irresistible communicator and life-shifting facilitator-together with the tools which will catapult you into the realms of self-accountable, inspired, resilient, and irresistible leadership. You'll lead with pride and purpose, and you'll be on the road to becoming unstoppable.

An hour or two of reading could save you from a lifetime of suffering Believe me, you don't want this to happen to you. You might not be using a dating app, as I was, but any form of social media is fair game. This includes Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn - and the like. I'll share with you how I picked up, in real-time, how an unsuspecting professor on LinkedIn found himself at grave risk of being snared by the same gang that caught me. I made all of the mistakes, and broke new ground, so that you don't have to. Unexpectedly, once I was finally over the worst of it - and thanks to my friend Santie's insistence that I not waste a good crisis - I was able to use this experience as the unlikely catalyst for my own life-makeover, and for inspiring others to overhaul their lives too, whether or not they'd been snagged by an online terror gang. I'm as savvy as anyone I know, and yet, within moments, I'd found myself in a lot of trouble. Not only had I put my own life on the line, but the lives of friends and family too. It was not a good situation to be in. I'd had no idea that my own ignorance - and, yes, sheer stupidity - would turn my life on its proverbial head within just a few short seconds. Looking back, I admit to having felt that something was amiss, but it had been exciting enough to ignore the warning signs. Once you've launched something into cyberspace, it's there forever. You can't take it back. I knew this, but I was having fun. Life was good. Within moments, my life had been reduced to a horror movie. It took me a while to work out exactly what I was looking at; I recognised my name, my work website and my friends and family, but everything else was the stuff of nightmares - and it simply didn't add up. How did that information and those images find their way into this WhatsApp conversation? Thereafter it didn't take long to work out that I'd been snagged by an online terror gang. I'd never even heard of the term SEXTORTION, but I very quickly became an expert on the topic. I didn't like what my research unearthed. It turns out that there are thousands of innocent people, all over the world, who are being reeled in by these terrible people every single day. Like me, they're very quickly terrorised into handing over tons of money. But that only invigorates these excuses for human beings into ratcheting up their ghastly threats, in an effort to extort more money. The worst part of all, is the fallout. The experience leaves people broken and traumatised. Teens and those who are more vulnerable, are even at risk of committing suicide. It's an awful scenario, and it's on the up. I say it again, that an hour or two of reading could save you from a lifetime of suffering...