Riaad Isaacs - Coach, Author, Workshop Facilitator

About 20 Years ago, bored with the mindless drudgery of repeating the same working day as per the last 7 years, unhappy with myself and my life, bouncing from one relationship to the next and with no real prospect of anything changing, I asked the Universe for something different. Having no real relationship with the big Guy or Gal in the sky, I wasn’t expecting much.
But, “Ask and you shall receive.”
And I did.
I recognized it immediately when that evening I got given an answer. Home alone for a change, I hunkered down in front of the TV to watch a show I’d been following, I became quite irritable when instead of my favourite show, Mnet was screening some promo of a reality show I’d not heard of. Poised to change the channel, I paused for some reason and continued watching. I became more intrigued and drawn in the longer I watched, and by the end of it I was convinced it was what I had asked for.
Without knowing what entering meant, I was convinced I would get on the show and my life would change forever. How could I not get on, it was ordained by the heavens, never mind the thousand other entrants who were thinking the same thing.
I was right, it did change my life, but not in the way you’re thinking.
After an 18 page, essay type questionnaire, a million interviews, psychological evaluations up the wazoo, and weeks of more interviews. I, along with eleven other contestants was chosen to be on SA’s inaugural Big Brother show.
To say that this was outside my comfort zone would be the understatement of the decade. I was an introverted loner, with a handful of close friends, and trust issues a jilted lover would be proud of.

Fast forward to 106 days later, I emerged from the Big Brother house as the 3rd runner-up with R40 000 rand in my pocket and feeling like I could do anything. I had stretched myself so far beyond my concept of myself that I could never return to being the quiet, shy, low confident person I had become. The experience had unearthed some latent force within me, and I wouldn’t be satisfied until I’d fully explored it.

But wait, this was not the real transformation yet. You see as a result of being on the show, people suddenly recognized me everywhere. Of course, they would, after I had taken up residence in their lounges for over 3 months. I attracted all kinds of weird and wonderful people, and it wasn’t long afterward that someone whom I had just met invited me to attend an introductory talk to a workshop that would ultimately change my life.

In hindsight, it was this that I actually had been asking for, and where everything was leading to. That day almost 20 years ago when I was sick and tired of me and my life, and I asked for something more, something different, Infinite intelligence knew exactly what I was asking for even if I didn’t. When I finished those workshops, my entire perspective, my worldview, my view on God, and Love had changed, and I knew without a shadow of a doubt what I wanted to do with my life.

I wanted to give others what was given to me, I wanted to somehow be a catalyst for others' transformation in the same way that I had transformed. Make no mistake, it has been a journey of crazy synchronicities, wild and often scary adventure, some soul-searing dark moments, joyful bliss, and unbelievable growth.
And now I find myself doing everything I had asked for and still wanting to take it to higher levels. My discontent with me and my life became the spark that set a new course for my life, and I’ve not looked back since.

Now I tell you this story because you can choose to change the trajectory of your life. Most people’s lives are overwhelmingly predictable. They repeat the same patterns over and over again throughout their lives and It becomes simple to predict with high accuracy where they’re going to end up. For example, if you eat a diet of junk food, massive portions, don’t exercise, and smoke a pack of cigarettes a day, it’s fairly obvious where you’ll eventually end up. The consistent pattern of that lifestyle will produce a certain range of outcomes.
It’s cause and effect. Predictable.

Now if your life is heading to a place you’re not keen on, and you can see where it’s heading, then it’s time to change the trajectory. Even if you’re just off by a few degrees now, that gap will widen the longer you continue, and before long you’ll be miles from where you wanted to be. If you begin to make the big or subtle corrections now, you’ll move closer and closer to your desired destination or destiny.

I want to gift you with this journey to yourself. I have seen hundreds, even thousands make changes to their lives, subtle corrections that have had enormous benefits later on, and ultimately transform their lives.
Your life does not have to be falling apart to want more, you simply have to know and believe that more is possible and that you deserve it.

The workshop is called Discover Your Optimal State (OSW) and it will change your life.