For the first 33 years of my life, I let others rule my existence. I sought others help, asked others for their opinion, believed others knew best for me and allowed others to control my destiny. I constantly turned away from what my inner voice was saying to me. There was an inner core to my being but I was swayed all too often by the buffeting that I encountered from others around me.

Right from fairly early childhood I had been bullied. Bulleying that continued right through school, at college and then into the workplace. Bulleying that I seemed powerless to stop. Basically because I didn't have the right tools to hand nor the right person to go to and get help.

At 33 I decided to choose another way. Not getting the answers I was looking for from my immediate family and friends, I sought counselling.

This was the best thing that I could ever have done for myself, within one session my counselor had pinpointed my problem with rapier like precision, I experienced my first 'eureka' moment as the mushroom cloud from my previous existance rose up around me.

I realised it was up to me to take responsibility for my life and start to rid myself of the things that I had put up with in the past in order to take control of my own destiny.

This helped me to start to readdress the balance in my relationships, leave an unfulfilling job, launch my own business, discover my own authenticity, change my vocation to become a life coach, pick up appropriate training and learning, connect with what I am most talented at doing and passionate about and start helping others in the same way that others had helped me.

To a place where I am now 33 + 4 years on and counting, where I have been able to turn things around very much for the better, seeing the bigger picture for my own life, building a strategy of how to get where I want to go and bringing forward my own personal leadership as my confidence levels continue to grow for the benefit of all.

Because I have been through the things I have in my life and come out the other side for the better, I feel able to help others who have found or are finding themselves in a similar position. There is hope, there is an alternative view worth thinking about, there is a way out of the situation you find yourself in. There is another person you can talk to.

Come and enjoy a free introduction to life coaching with me when I exhibit at Quest 2008. July 4th, 5th and 6th at Newton Abbot Racecourse, Kingsteignton, Devon.

Due to the success of earlier exhibitions this year at St Mellion Golf and Country Club, Cornwall. Where I exhibited at both the March 16th Health and Well Being Show and last Wednesday's May 21st Business Needs and Support Exhibition, where a steady stream of prospective clients beat a path to my stand for free consultations and advice. I am pleased to announce that a similar opportunity awaits people at Quest 2008 where free consultations will be again available with me on Stand 120.

Find out how life coaching can start to benefit you as it is doing for thousands of others up and down the country by spending half an hour with me on stand as well as soaking up the ambience of the show.

Can't wait that long? Give me a call today to see what I can arrange with you before then by way of a consultation.

Thankfully now word seems to be spreading about all the services that I can offer. The Set Your Spirit Free brand is being ever more recognised.

Clients successfully going through the coaching model are passing on their experiences to others exclaiming how much benefit they have recieved through life coaching.

With the graphic design service too, a good job done 18 months ago for Bewley Garage has led to the recent completion of another corporate identity project for Blewitt Financial.

Tim and Maria Blewiit heard about my services through Tim Hart of Bewley and so it wasn't too long before not only a logo was being produced for their new finance business but also business stationery as well.

Tim and Maria offer between them, Independent Financial Advice, Investment Planning, Pensions, Savings/ISA's, Mortgages, Equity Release, IHT Planning, Book Keeping and Sage Training.

Tim and Maria are very friendly people and a joy to work with. So I wouldn't hesitate to recommend their financial services to anyone. Contact maria@blewittfinancial.com if you think their services could be of use to you.

On Wednesday 21st May, PL:21's first event took place. 43 people turned up to see the film Message In The Waves. I did an introductory presentation linking Ivybridge to Hawaii lasting 15 minutes and Dr Richard Thompson spoke for 50 minutes on microplastic in the environment.

The evening went well and we managed to attract several alternative bag suppliers to the event in order to encourage shopkeepers and business owners within Ivybridge to move towards stocking alternative bags at their premises.

What is evolving out of the evening is a new bag for Ivybridge made out of recycled off cuts from a leading bed manufacturer being made up into bags by people with learning difficulties from the Plymouth area, all branded up with the new Ivybridge logo and soon to be on sale through the Ivybridge Tourist Information Centre.

We hope that shoppers throughout Ivybridge will soon be making full use of the bags in a bid to continue to raise awareness of the plastic bag issue and the excessive amount of plastic which now exists in our environment.

Other events connected to the ever pressing concerns of climate change and peak oil will follow in due course.