I have always been a very able and aware individual. I have always had a lot of friends and good jobs, nice cars and homes and other life accessories. Even with all these wonderful attributes to my life, I still had an emptiness or an unfulfilled aspect. Still missing was the certainty of self and the concept of fulfilling the potential of my abilities I was wanting to attain.

     I was living my life to the tune of another’s composition. I was not the author and creator of my own life.

     Since I was able to attain many things that I wanted at a very early age, I realized that the fulfillment and certainty that I desired was not to be found in the accumulation of more “toys.”

     I decided to change the people in my life and rid myself of their opinions and considerations that others had upon my future and existence. I moved away from home and completely changed my environment and started over to find my path through life.

     However, I found that the same barriers that were stopping me before were again present in my new environment. This is when I realized that the barriers and obstacles that I wanted to overcome lay within me, not outside.

     I attempted to focus and control my own life to start achieving the things I wanted. But the more I did this, the more things seemed to go wrong. A friend of mine introduced me to the book The Problems of Work by L. Ron Hubbard. I had never heard of Mr. Hubbard or Scientology or Dianetics at this point. The information I read in this book was so universally applicable to my life that I was able to apply it to nearly every situation I came across or encountered, always with positive results.

     Many times in the past I would learn of or hear some witty gem of knowledge or truth that could apply to handling life. But soon I would forget this little gem or it would become unworkable in many circumstances.

     The gems of wisdom I got from Mr. Hubbard did not spoil with time or application. They were as universally applicable as Newton’s laws of physics.

     It was like getting a hammer after trying to pound nails with my fist. The hammer was the correct tool for all situations and much faster and less bloody than my fist.

     A few months later I came across a Dianetics Center and stopped in to see what other books were available. I decided to do the Success Through Communication Course at the center. Again the abilities I gained from this course were so life-changing that I quickly realized it would be foolish not to avail myself to this body of data.

     The one thing that I really appreciated from Dianetics and Scientology from the very beginning was that I was never asked to “believe” anything. Everything I studied was for my examination and application in life. My course supervisors were always there to make sure that I properly understood what I was studying. As, if the data was not understood, it would not work for anyone. But I have never been asked to believe, I have never been told what to think. In fact, the complete opposite is true, I have learned to really think for myself as I have become the author of my life.