Hello, my name is Mike Oxford.
I want share what’s happened to my wife, Liza, and I over the last two years.
We feel we have been through hell and we both agree that it is undoubtedly the very worst period in our lives.
Fortunately, we have now found a way forward and that’s what we want to share with you. We want to share our recovery and our #LifeBook Story.
It all started in 2016 and ran through 2017 when we both got dragged into an awful legal case. I won’t bore you with the gory details but we survived the justice system only to find we started 2018:
• Totally exhausted;
• More stressed than we thought was humanly possible, and;
• Feeling as if our lives and dreams were broken;
Worst of all, we started 2018 with massive legal costs and were forced to sell our home to avoid bankruptcy and to at least retain our positive credit rating.
So we started the year with nothing but our furniture, with each other, our dog and the love and support of friends and family.
And I should add – we still had hope and we still had spirit.
Sadly, though, we had no idea what to do. No idea where to turn. No idea how to climb out of the dark hole that we had fallen into.
But now that’s all changed and that's what I want to tell you about.
In the darkest days of 2018 we knew we needed help from outside. We needed a guide to lead us forward. We found one.
It started with #MindValley and if you haven’t heard of #MindValley. Check it out online. #MindValley is a wonderful and amazing source of life enriching information, knowledge and inspiration – presented by some of the world’s most successful and exciting people.
It was through Mind Valley that we found the #LifeBook Programme.
Life Book is a truly life changing experience and approach and is like nothing Liza and I have ever tried or come across before.
#LifeBook is the creation of John and Missy Butcher.
In essence, it's a way of bringing extraordinary focus into our lives and it’s organised into 12 ‘life categories’ – including: Health & Fitness - Finances – Emotions – Spirituality – Parenting - Social life – Character and Career.
Most importantly, taken together these categories enable us to create an integrated and comprehensive Vision living truly happy and successful lives.
The initial #LifeBook programme is organised over six weeks and provides the time and guidance to delve deeply into each of the life categories.
What makes #LifeBook special?
Well, for me, the magic lies in the fact that it is so personal. All the answers to how we get an extraordinary life come from within us and - as are result – the answers are all especially bespoke and therefore relevant to Liza’s life and my own.
The beauty of the approach is that through their own experience over the last 20 years or more, John and Missy have been able to refine and work on the process so that they now know exactly which questions to ask. It’s up to us to then find the answers by searching inside ourselves.
In particular, Life Book got us to answer:
1. What do I truly believe is possible in my life?
2. What do I want to see change to see my better life?
3. How would my life improve if I achieved these changes and the success I would like?
4. How do I bring about the change and achieve success across all aspects of my life?
Liza and I went through the whole programme together and we now have individually and jointly mapped out how to bring our dreams into reality. Something that 18 months ago would have seemed impossible.
It may sound as if its too good to be true … but it is true; for instance: by applying the 12 categories we have achieved focus on what it takes to gain a true Work : Life Balance. Something we certainly didn’t have before.
Plus … our finances have improved dramatically. We have a much healthier diet and have a renewed passion to get fit and to live long and extremely healthy lives. And our emotions are so much more stable; in fact we are happy and can once again enjoy calm peaceful quality time together and with friends and family.
There has also been one really unexpected outcome. I used the Life Book approach and format to put a business case to my employer that has been embraced with open arms.
My employer is a big engineering and environmental consultancy with offices all around the world.
Using the Life Book approach (i.e. what do we believe we could achieve, what would success look like, what would be the benefits and how do we get there?) I have prepared a draft ‘Vision’ for the Ecology part of the company’s business.
In other words, what does the company what the Ecology Business to look like in five year’s time? The Vision sets out how would subtle but important changes could benefit staff, the business, clients and the natural environment.
I’ve received an overwhelming and wonderfully surprising response and my management have responded with open arms. They have offered almost unfettered encouragement and we hope to roll the Vision out later this year.
This initiative has the potential to be so exciting … AND … it would not have been happening (I wouldn’t have ever thought of it) without Life Book.
Concluding Thoughts
In my experience – and I’ve certainly tried a few over the years, very few life improvement programmes are truly transformational. Or at least you need a lot of luck on you side too if anything positive comes from them.
But #LifeBook doesn’t rely on luck or gimmicks. It’s been tried and tested by thousands of people and their positive testimony is all across the Internet.
Liza and I can also personally confirm that it has been truly transformational for us. It’s totally enhanced our outlook on life and our plans and dreams for the future. We already have the results too, to show how quickly life can change for the better.
So … we have fallen in love with the #LifeBook approach and are now looking forward to sharing it with our family and friends.
AND … we hope one day to be able to personally thank John and Missy Butcher.
AND … we’d love to share with them how the Life Book approach even works when you take it into a big international corporation.
AND … most of all we want to put something back and we have a few ideas for a new #LifeBook Category 14 on the Environment and Sustainability.
Thank you John and Missy … our Life Book Story has only just begun.
I want share what’s happened to my wife, Liza, and I over the last two years.
We feel we have been through hell and we both agree that it is undoubtedly the very worst period in our lives.
Fortunately, we have now found a way forward and that’s what we want to share with you. We want to share our recovery and our #LifeBook Story.
It all started in 2016 and ran through 2017 when we both got dragged into an awful legal case. I won’t bore you with the gory details but we survived the justice system only to find we started 2018:
• Totally exhausted;
• More stressed than we thought was humanly possible, and;
• Feeling as if our lives and dreams were broken;
Worst of all, we started 2018 with massive legal costs and were forced to sell our home to avoid bankruptcy and to at least retain our positive credit rating.
So we started the year with nothing but our furniture, with each other, our dog and the love and support of friends and family.
And I should add – we still had hope and we still had spirit.
Sadly, though, we had no idea what to do. No idea where to turn. No idea how to climb out of the dark hole that we had fallen into.
But now that’s all changed and that's what I want to tell you about.
In the darkest days of 2018 we knew we needed help from outside. We needed a guide to lead us forward. We found one.
It started with #MindValley and if you haven’t heard of #MindValley. Check it out online. #MindValley is a wonderful and amazing source of life enriching information, knowledge and inspiration – presented by some of the world’s most successful and exciting people.
It was through Mind Valley that we found the #LifeBook Programme.
Life Book is a truly life changing experience and approach and is like nothing Liza and I have ever tried or come across before.
#LifeBook is the creation of John and Missy Butcher.
In essence, it's a way of bringing extraordinary focus into our lives and it’s organised into 12 ‘life categories’ – including: Health & Fitness - Finances – Emotions – Spirituality – Parenting - Social life – Character and Career.
Most importantly, taken together these categories enable us to create an integrated and comprehensive Vision living truly happy and successful lives.
The initial #LifeBook programme is organised over six weeks and provides the time and guidance to delve deeply into each of the life categories.
What makes #LifeBook special?
Well, for me, the magic lies in the fact that it is so personal. All the answers to how we get an extraordinary life come from within us and - as are result – the answers are all especially bespoke and therefore relevant to Liza’s life and my own.
The beauty of the approach is that through their own experience over the last 20 years or more, John and Missy have been able to refine and work on the process so that they now know exactly which questions to ask. It’s up to us to then find the answers by searching inside ourselves.
In particular, Life Book got us to answer:
1. What do I truly believe is possible in my life?
2. What do I want to see change to see my better life?
3. How would my life improve if I achieved these changes and the success I would like?
4. How do I bring about the change and achieve success across all aspects of my life?
Liza and I went through the whole programme together and we now have individually and jointly mapped out how to bring our dreams into reality. Something that 18 months ago would have seemed impossible.
It may sound as if its too good to be true … but it is true; for instance: by applying the 12 categories we have achieved focus on what it takes to gain a true Work : Life Balance. Something we certainly didn’t have before.
Plus … our finances have improved dramatically. We have a much healthier diet and have a renewed passion to get fit and to live long and extremely healthy lives. And our emotions are so much more stable; in fact we are happy and can once again enjoy calm peaceful quality time together and with friends and family.
There has also been one really unexpected outcome. I used the Life Book approach and format to put a business case to my employer that has been embraced with open arms.
My employer is a big engineering and environmental consultancy with offices all around the world.
Using the Life Book approach (i.e. what do we believe we could achieve, what would success look like, what would be the benefits and how do we get there?) I have prepared a draft ‘Vision’ for the Ecology part of the company’s business.
In other words, what does the company what the Ecology Business to look like in five year’s time? The Vision sets out how would subtle but important changes could benefit staff, the business, clients and the natural environment.
I’ve received an overwhelming and wonderfully surprising response and my management have responded with open arms. They have offered almost unfettered encouragement and we hope to roll the Vision out later this year.
This initiative has the potential to be so exciting … AND … it would not have been happening (I wouldn’t have ever thought of it) without Life Book.
Concluding Thoughts
In my experience – and I’ve certainly tried a few over the years, very few life improvement programmes are truly transformational. Or at least you need a lot of luck on you side too if anything positive comes from them.
But #LifeBook doesn’t rely on luck or gimmicks. It’s been tried and tested by thousands of people and their positive testimony is all across the Internet.
Liza and I can also personally confirm that it has been truly transformational for us. It’s totally enhanced our outlook on life and our plans and dreams for the future. We already have the results too, to show how quickly life can change for the better.
So … we have fallen in love with the #LifeBook approach and are now looking forward to sharing it with our family and friends.
AND … we hope one day to be able to personally thank John and Missy Butcher.
AND … we’d love to share with them how the Life Book approach even works when you take it into a big international corporation.
AND … most of all we want to put something back and we have a few ideas for a new #LifeBook Category 14 on the Environment and Sustainability.
Thank you John and Missy … our Life Book Story has only just begun.