My Story

Restored from the Empower Network archive (2011–2017), lightly edited to meet our current advertising standards. Views are the original author’s.

Hello and welcome to my blog!

I’m really pleased that you’ve come here today.

This is not about my life story, you can find a bit more about that over at my personal site, but the chances are, you just want to know why I’m here on the Empower Network and you’re curious to know why I do what I do, so I’ll tell you!

The answer to the second question comes first really.

I have always wanted to

a) make the world a better place by helping other people and

b) write a book

and so I combine writing with attempting to help other people make changes in their lives!

As the English author Colin Wilson said

“The mind has exactly the same power as the hands; not merely to grasp the world, but to change it.”

I see lots of people who are unknowingly holding themselves back, when, with a little more awareness, belief, effort, understanding or any combination of those things, they could achieve so much more. So I write books to help them and people like them.

I have come to understand that many people do not see their own unique abilities, do not appreciate how much more they could become.

Many people live their lives in fear of unknown spectres most of which they could overshadow if they only knew how. I believe it is my gift that I see this potential in people. I see the cracks behind the façades and the fears behind the smiles. I sense their beauty even when they do not.

This gift has not always served me well and I have had to learn to accept that not everyone wants to embrace their potential.

Some people are not ready to take that leap of faith and to become the butterfly that lives within them.

I am now able to see that this is a choice that only they can make. That it is not a failing on my part, but a choice, unconscious or otherwise, on theirs. It took me a long time and a lot of heartache before I finally understood this, but my realisation has enabled me to be a more effective mentor, friend, writer and mother.

So I write; I write in the hope that some of the people who are, like me, seekers, will discover my books at the perfect time for them and find within their pages a nugget of information, a glimmer of hope, that will lead them to the next step of their journey.

Which leads on to why I am here on the Empower Network…

Well aside from the fact that empowerment is such magnificent concept and therefore I love the name, I can also recognise a great opportunity when I see one! Just as I did when voluntary redundancy was offered to me in 2009. I want to write and I want to make a living from my writing, which means getting people to see what I’m writing! The Empower Network is allowing me and helping me to do exactly that.

The Empower Network has such authority in internet terms, that it gets seen and picked up by the Search Engines like Google, Bing and Yahoo much quicker and more often than my humble little Self Help Bible site. This means I can spend less time worrying about getting traffic to my site and more time writing.

Less of the bits I find hard and more of what I enjoy. Makes sense doesn’t it!

So, those two questions answered, I will just tell you that I am the mother of two wonderful boys, who keep me young and grounded and inspire me constantly. They have become my ‘why’ and I hope that I will serve as a good example to them and give them the self belief they need to fulfill the potential I see within them. This is a picture of me with them earlier this year near my ‘home’ in Devon.

I am also a Master Practitioner of Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP), Hypnosis and Time Line Therapy™ and have a BA(hons) degree in French and Psychology.

I call my book series The Self Help Bible, writing under my maiden name of Amanda Ball. You can learn a bit more about them here  and see where to buy them here. They’re available in paperback and lots of ebook formats.

Volume 1 is called About Self Esteem and How to Be Confident, click on the image below to learn more and to download a free preview.

Volume 2 is called How to Change the Life You Have for the Life You Want, again, you can download a free preview by clicking the image below.

They are short and to the point and I know, both from experience of the techniques I’ve included and from feedback from people who’ve read them, that they will help you to make changes in your life if you want to.

If you can bring the desire and the commitment I can give you the tools for change.