So who is Matthew White?

I was sitting on the floor in a small room with eight other people. The ceiling was so low that we couldn't stand. But it was so cramped that the only way we could sit, was to be in a line, between each other's legs. There was no room for personal space, but even in our suits, the chill in the air made the contact, even with strangers, reluctantly comfortable.


We didn't know exactly how long we were going to be stuck here, but we knew we all had no choice but to endure it.

We didn't speak much to each other. Even if we wanted to, there was a loud sound of some sort of motor outside that made talking difficult. Each person was in their own private world, thinking of what was going to happen to them or remembering times gone by - easy, carefree times with friends and loved ones. All left behind... separated by more than just distance.

One of us, sitting facing the rest, had a video camera. He'd been asked to film me, watching for my reactions, for any emotions... trying macabrely to goad me into a smile, but mostly watching to see if I would break.

Finally, at some random time, the door was unlocked and we were allowed to leave. One at a time, or in pairs, the people in front of me left the room and headed toward their fate. Occasionally a scream could be heard as they left, before quickly being cut off.

I shuffled to the door, and paused at the door frame - half in, half out. I had two people, one each side of me, holding me tightly, making sure I didn't make any sudden moves... Making sure I went through with it.

I looked them both in the eyes - first one, then the other. I nodded my head and accepted that I was next. At 13,000 feet, I solo jumped from an aeroplane for the first time in my life.

I fell though the air faster than a freight-train going down a mountain. The force of the wind slapping at my face, my hands and my feet kept re-enforcing where I was, breaking the trance-like spell which kept threatening to overtake me as I lay there, in mid air, looking down at the amazing enormity of the ground I had just left almost half an hour ago. I saw the land below me spread out for hundreds of miles in every direction.

And yet, because this wasn't a tandem jump, I was responsible for my life. One stuff-up and I would be dead in one minute and twenty seconds. I needed to focus - NOW!

Tense hours of sitting around waiting earlier in the day had mixed with the 6 hours of training I'd had jammed into me. Once the rip cord was pulled, my instructors would leave me and I'd be on my own. I had a lot to do, and a lot to remember. Watching the video afterwards, my face looks fairly expressionless. I didn't know it then, but I was learning a VERY valuable lesson that would help me for the rest of my life.

WHAM! I'm jerked to a halt as the parachute opens, leaving me slightly disoriented. And that's when it really starts.

I'm all alone, with nothing but my training, and no way back. I'm here now. There's no way out. I have to finish this. I have to do it well.

It was now late in the afternoon. Since getting up early that morning I'd been running a visualisation through my head, all day. Every time I felt any form of fear, slacking concentration or arrogance I'd run that mental video through my head.

It was when I'd landed in a field of long grass burning brightly from the setting sun, that an overwealming peace filled my whole awareness.

There have been many times in my life that I've felt this calmness. I have seen people poison, ruin and destroy their own lives and the lives of those around them because of stress. I've seen homes shattered by the parent's inability to handle stress - stress from money problems, pressure at work, relationship trouble. I have worked in companies where co-workers and bosses were so nasty that your stomach balls up in a pit of blackness, just at the thought of having to go back there again. I've had a loved one be pursued with false legal action for no other reason than they weren't liked by someone.

That set me on a path of learning and developing powerful mental tools, and teaching them to people who need it.

Some of the best tools I now teach are how to:

• get people through massive fears that used to debilitate them, leaving them frozen and unable to move.
• bring on calmness instantly, to break patterns and habits
• make tough decisions in an instant and stick to them.
• have the patience of saint, enduring pain and mental trauma (or even just a bad movie) with easy peace
• be a powerful goal-seeking missile, knowing what you want and generating the power to get it.

I don't just teach these things, I live them myself.

Apparently there are only 13 olympic grade bobsled tracks in the world. While travelling around Eastern Europe I happened to be near one, in a small town outside Riga, the capital of the former Russian state of Latvia. As luck would have it, the Latvian Olympic Bobsled team were there and agreed to take me and my friends for a ride with them.

Now this is no toboggan either. These sleds travel a kilometre in 47 seconds. At times you get up to 100 km/h and pull 3Gs of force going around some of the turns. The noise roars in your head as you fly up the walls. You barely have more than a second's notice of an upcoming turn before you are thrown to the side of the car and are crushed by gravity into the seat.

And suddenly, all too soon, it is over.

This is very different though to the Running of the Bulls in Pamplona, however. This is a week long Spanish festival where every morning young local men and crazy foreigners try to outrun 6 half-ton powerhouses of pure, lean, aggressive bull meat - with spikes.

Before that, you have an hour to stew in your anticipation while you wait with all of the other runners, many of whom are still hung over from the previous night's parties. Knowing that people have died doing what you're now doing fills you with lots of adrenaline. Finally, when the rocket goes off, you feel a surge of the crowd match the surge of your stomach, as you know the bulls have been released and are on their way.

But if you make it to the bull ring, that's where it is different from anything fast like a bobsled or a skydive. You see, for the next 30 minutes, you and everyone else locked in the arena must dodge those 6 bulls as they rampage around, charging anything in their way... It takes sharp concentration, very quick reflexes and nerves of steel to hang on for that long.

But I don't just do crazy "stunts". I'm a long-time corporate guy too. You see, these mental tools work in everyday life too. I've started in the corporate world 12 years ago. My sister, my brother, all my friends know what it is like to rise through the ranks, in the big offices, of the world's big cities. And these people range from secretaries and PAs to high level Managers, Project Managers and Execs.

And that's been my yard stick for everything I've learned. "Would it work for these people close to me? If not, it got binned so you are getting only the very best, high quality, triple distilled information. You will get information that will help you pick up your whole life and move it to other towns, and other countries; to ask for (and get) raises; or to become a highly respected person in multinational companies - quickly. How do I know for certain? Because that is exactly what I've done.

You know, for some, the scariest thing in the world is asking a woman out on a date. They'd rather face a wild bull or snowboard down a cliff, any day. But even for someone like that, with tools like these and the right preparation, even our deepest fears can be beaten.

Tools collected from many sources... I've been fortunate to learn from many different sources. My martial art, Bujinkan, has a long history of training calmness in battle, tracing its history back to the Ninja and Samurai of Japan. This adds to almost two decades of studying philosophy and 4 of the world's major religious thought systems. Surprisingly some of the biggest benefits came when I added that knowledge to what I learned in NLP and Jungian psychology (and even some occasional ideas from nutritionists and New Age mystics).

I have always believed that it is not just enough to know something; you have to understand it too. You only truly understand it when you can teach it to lots of different people. You can learn how to teach facts, but you need rounded experience to be able to really connect with people and teach them how to change their lives...

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