Have you ever felt trapped or weighed down in your circumstances? Not happy with where you’re at in life or what you’ve achieved?

I felt the exact same way as I was laying in bed next to my wife in early 2010. We’d just had our first child, Samuel. It was a Sunday morning, the only day I could have any kind of a sleep in and I was completely over it, wanting an opportunity to get online and to be at home with my family.

See, at the time I was a carpenter. Getting out of bed at 4:30am 6 days a week, unmotivated, preparing for another 1.5 hour drive to a job site in the middle of nowhere,  to start at 7, where I’d spend 10-12 hours working hard, drive home, have dinner and be in bed by 9 to be able to do it all again the next day.

I had debt up to the eyeballs, struggling to make ends meet, stressed, wondering where I would get the money to pay my electricity bill, let alone the dozen other bills that were piling up, not to mention where I’d get the money for the next mortgage payment.