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Hi, my name is Brad Cusworth, I am 29 years old and 6 months ago I achieved my dream of escaping the rat race.  I am now a full time investor and specialise in Internet Marketing, Stock Market Trading and Property Investing.

My story begins in October 2005.  I attended my first Property and Investment expo in Melbourne.  I had always been interested in investing but had never taken the time to become educated.  At the expo I collected loads of brochures and free information about investing but one show bag really stood out from the rest.  I was given a free DVD and book from 21st Century Academy.  Jamie McIntrye is the CEO and he tells of an amazing story where he went from $150,000 in debt and living on a friends couch to a multi millionaire within a matter of years.

The book is called ‘What I didn’t learn at school but wish I had’. The title really appealed to me as I already had a belief that there were huge limitations with our current education system (have you ever wondered why they don’t teach us anything about wealth creation strategies or money management at school?).

I watched the dvd that night and read the entire book within a few days.  I was so excited!  This was a huge turning point for me and it was like I had finally found the missing link in my life!  I purchased the home study course within one week of reading the book.  You can get a FREE copy of Jamie’s ebook and dvd by clicking here.

I completed the entire home study program in November 2005 and WOW, what an amazing journey it has been since then!  A rollercoaster ride of extreme emotions.  Fear, greed, confidence, despair, arrogance, depression, anger, frustration, exhilaration ..... the list could go on and on.  It has not been an easy journey by any means but it has been the most amazing 3 years of my entire life and I would not take back a single second.

Jamie’s course led on to doing Nik Halik’s stock market trading courses and after completing them in early 2006 I was convinced that I was going to be a multi millionaire within 12 months!  I had planned out everything from the car I was going to buy, to the mansion by the ocean and a first class trip around the world.

I started trading options (directionals) and organised my work around trading.  Every day I would start at 6:30am, work until 2:30pm, come home, trade for 1 ½ hours and then go back to work from 4:00 – 6:30.  I decided that I was going to retire within 6 months and all of my dreams were going to become reality!  I was so confident at one stage that I actually went to a bank and enquired about a $50,000 unsecured Personal Loan so I could quit work immediately and trade full time!  Thank god that I didn’t because over the next 12 months I lost over $30,000 on the markets due to a number of factors.  Stupidity, Greed, Fear and Ignorance were among them!

In early 2007 I was absolutely devastated.  I had lost my entire trading bank and felt like I was back at square one after thousands of hours of studying charts, reading books and getting educated.

One day I woke up to myself and I had a light bulb moment.  I remembered one of the first things that Jamie taught me “More than 80% of investing is mindset”.  I was spending zero time on my mindset and 100% of the time on strategies.  This was another massive turning point in my life.

I also remembered that Jamie said to donate at least 10% of profits to charity.  I always said to myself that I would donate money to charity after I had made it.  Unfortunately it doesn't work like that!  We must first give in order to receive. Immediately I went out and sponsored 3 children from World Vision even though I was broke and struggling to pay the bills.  I thought I would just have to find the money somewhere.  I started volunteering my time at 3 day seminars, answered questions on forums and focused more on others instead of focusing purely on myself.

I started reading books such as ‘Think and Grow Rich’, ‘The Richest Man in Babylon’, ‘One Minute Millionaire’, ‘Secrets of the Millionaire Mind’, etc.  I started attending seminars about Personal Development, Mindset and NLP.  I started meditating with Holosync every single day (I highly recommend holosync mediation, it has completely changed my life!) Click here for more information about Holosync.

I studied the laws of the universe starting with the Law of Attraction (from the Secret), What the Bleep, etc.  I started writing out my goals, reading affirmations, making up a vision board.  Every morning and every night I visualised the future that I wanted to experience in the finest of detail.  Gradually things started to change in my life.  I started to see things in a different light.  I started meeting new people and I started to see new opportunities.  My entire life started to change and I knew I was getting closer and closer to my goals even though my bank account didn’t show it (yet!).

In late 2007 I started researching the internet and came across a fantastic online business called Success University.  I learnt heaps about internet marketing and more importantly I learnt how to work with a team of like minded people to achieve a common goal.  This really started the ball rolling and I started to generate a descent cash flow.

In November I volunteered at a property seminar in Melbourne and I met an amazing guy who introduced me to a new online business.  3 weeks later I found myself in Cancun, Mexico at a Millionaires Wealth Conference which was associated with my new business.  I met some truly amazing people.  Many of them were earning six figure incomes per month online!

I got back to Melbourne in late December more fired up than ever before.  From early January I decided to get stuck into this new business and by January 31st I decided to take a giant leap of faith and handed in my resignation at work.  I gave them 4 weeks notice and my official last day in the rat race was the 29th February 2008.  I will never forget the day that I handed in that letter.  I was terrified as I knew that my financial security and future was now in my own hands.  I no longer had a pay check to look forward to every 2 weeks!

My destiny was now entirely up to me and it was such an empowering feeling.  I walked out of my Managers office feeling on top of the world!  After making that decision to hand in my resignation I then went on to earn my previous yearly salary in a single month during February.  I knew that I had to take massive action as I only had 4 weeks of security left.  I worked 15 hours per week on my new internet business while still working 45 hours per week as a Personal Trainer and Assistant Manager at a Gym.  45 hours per week earning $60,000 per year compared to 15 hours per week earning $60,000 per month!  You can imagine how I was feeling at the end of February when I walked out of my office, closed the door and knew that I would never have to work for anyone else again for the rest of my life. What an amazing feeling, I will never forget it!

I developed the Fear to Freedom website because I wanted to share my story about how I have been able to conquer fear in my life and how I broke through to the other side.  I finally found the freedom that I was always searching for.  My goal is to inspire and empower others to do the same!

I know many of you are probably very disheartened with the current state of the economy, rising petrol prices, stock market volatility, property prices stagnating, etc.  No doubt many of you have lost a lot of money.  I wanted to share my story because I was in a similar position.  I was as low as I could possibly go at one point and could barely see the light at the end of the tunnel.  10 months ago I had no savings, I had just one investment property and I had a $30,000 personal loan.  I turned all of that around in a very short period of time because I finally found the key to success.

Money is not hard to make.  There are infinite opportunities everywhere!  We simply need to go on a journey of growth and personal development before the money starts to appear.  All we need is just one good idea and then repeat it over and over again.  When our mindset changes to Growth and Contribution amazing things start to happen!

I have developed a FREE 5 part mini course which details many of the important principles that have taken me from Fear to Freedom in my life.  I talk about the Key to Success that I recently dicovered and give you some practical tips and strategies to help you to break through to success in your life.

Click here to register for the Free course.

The most important advice I can give is to make a commitment to NEVER give up!  You can achieve absolutely anything that you set your mind to.  Sometimes you will feel like you are treading water, sometimes you will feel like you are drowning.  Just always keep the end goal in sight and keep chipping away little by little.  It’s just a matter of time before you will achieve your wildest dreams!

To your success!

Brad Cusworth

P.S: I love connecting with like minded people.  If you have a Facebook and / or Myspace account click the pictures below and add me as a friend!