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All About Chris Lyons and Personal Evolution
About Chris LyonsMy name is Chris Lyons and I would like to share a bit of my journey with you. It's one that will demonstrate that we are all born with in-built capability for anything we desire.... I began with no money, when I say none I mean none. Well actually I really mean in debt. In the beginning all I had was a dream, a dream and a purpose to make an impact on those around me and the world in some way. This passion and purpose began at a very early age. In the beginning When I was a child, I was very withdrawn and insecure. This may be due partly to the fact that my parents were unstable in what they were doing. I attended more than 10 different primary schools and had enormous difficulty making friends, I mostly kept to myself and my own imagination. Now, I'm not blaming my parents, they did the best they could with what they had and knew at the time. In addition to this instability, there were also many other problems. The people I was surrounded with as a child were criminals, drug addicts and often engaged in very violent behaviour. I witnessed drug overdoses, violent crimes, sexual abuse and was even the subject of some of it. It was never my parents' intention to expose me to such trauma and negative experience but it was just a matter of the people they were associated with at the time. As an adolescent I began training in boxing and various martial arts, which became a major part of my life and still is. I have since studied martial arts of various kinds on and off for over 15 years, at points in my life I would train several hours every day. By age 16 I was living on my own in a small caravan (trailer) in a caravan/trailer park. I had no TV and my living space was a shoe box, actually a shoe box may have been more comfortable. At age 17 I moved from Batemans Bay on the NSW south coast to Sydney where my father, step mother and brothers and sisters were. I worked in factories and other boring work. At the time I experienced a massive psychological break down and the psychiatrist said I was bordering on manic depressive. I was given an assortment of drugs and sent on my way. Well this just isn't my way of operating, so I soon ditched the drugs and took on other strategies. This was my introduction to personal development material. The snowball begins These experiences led me to wanting to excel in everything I did from then on. My family moved to North QLD and I moved in with some friends. During this time I once again slipped back. I started drinking heavily, smoking everything that I could fit in a cigarette paper or pack into a pipe. I gained enormous weight and was truly unhappy and unhealthy. I experienced an incident were I severed my ankle almost half way through due to a drunken incident. While I was in hospital I realised I wasn't moving in the direction I wanted to. At that time, after surgery, I hobbled around on crutches achieving more than ever before. I decided to take a course at the TAFE college, I studied health and fitness. During that year I got into possibly the best shape of my life. I lost almost 40 kilograms and ended up probably fitter and healthier than anyone in the course. After TAFE I started working part time just to bring in an income. Pretty soon I got an opportunity to run a business as a personal trainer and pay to rent the facilities of a fitness centre in Parramatta. I had up and down success with the business but could not gain stability. I had to take on part time work as a security guard. The rollercoaster continues I was happy to work hard and do security work part time while building my fitness business, although it was hard and taxing. I took on many jobs including; dog patrol (security guard with a trained dog), bouncer, static guard, gatekeeper and a few others. At the time I was helping people make some awesome changes in their lives through fitness but there was still something missing. I started attending seminars and workshops. I spent money I didn't have and attended Tony Robbins events and countless others. I was inspired and saw an opportunity and purpose that was built for me. I began applying what I had learned to my clients and anyone who would listen. Soon I developed a small group of raving fans who loved my work. The problem was that I had to continue on with the security work temporarily so that I had an income. I took a job working in a large club. The work was long hours but good money. After several weeks in the position, something awful happened. One night we heard a bang coming from an empty function room upstairs. I knew that our armed guard would go up there for his meal breaks and so myself and another guard ran up to see what had happened. There he was with his gun, he had fired it into the ceiling. He waved the gun around and told us to "piss off". I shied away. This is when he pulled the trigger with the gun pointed to his chin. This was an image you never forget, it's far from what the movies portray. It was an awful thing to witness. I decided to get another job and started working as a guard on the cigarette delivery vans. The vans contained hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of cigarettes and so it was an easy target for robbery. In my forth week on the job I was held up and abducted at gun-point and held captive in the back of the offenders car. After the experience I suffered a lot of fear and trauma. I became a virtual hermit and rarely left the house. After several months I became very withdrawn and suffered many problems. Lessons learned I soon realised I had to break the pattern and so I decided using the tools I had previously learned and taught to others to overcome my set backs. I moved to Bathurst and studied Human Movement Studies at Charles Sturt University. I applied everything I knew and started regaining my life. During my time in Bathurst I got married and my wife became pregnant with our daughter Nitara. It was the leverage I gained from my experiences that allowed me to overcome these obstacles and get to where I am today. I learned that we only have a certain amount of time in this world and it could come to an abrupt end at any moment. This is why I decided to seize every moment and make the most of every day. This led me to where I am to this day. I have started running seminars and training programmes to teach people to overcome any odds and reach the peak of their own potential. As you can see, this site, my business and the Born To Win programmes are built on experience and passion, not text books. About Personal Evolution Personal Evolution is the name of the organisation founded by me, Chris Lyons. We are dedicated to bringing you the highest quality training and personal development in a fun, exciting, interactive and powerful environment. Have you ever noticed how so many people (perhaps even yourself) learn things that you really know are valuable but never actually apply what you have learned? Have you ever had this happen more than once in your life? The reason is that most people don’t take massive enough action or they “try” and apply it with a mind-set that says they can’t for some reason or another even when you say you think you can. Information is only potential power, only action really gives you power. I don’t believe in rigidly laid plans or pure theory, this is why you will walk away from reading this site or experiencing one of my seminars, trainings, coaching etc with not only the theory and knowledge but also with the practical experience of applying what you learn, as you learn. Simply put, we get you to take the necessary action to start using the skills immediately. Everything I teach follows the principle of simplicity, not complicated routines and formulas that you will never stick to. Personal Evolution and myself hold ourselves to the highest possible standards, standards that we have set for ourselves, not just ones that others expect from us. Basically summed up, Personal Evolution is focussed on results and teaching what works. That's what this site is all about and that's what it is about Chris Lyons that makes me different from probably 99% of what you hear every day. It's sometimes a little difficult to pin down what I do because it's so broad. As I have mentioned, I am a personal trainer with extensive experience in areas of personal development and peak performance. The best way to really capture the work that I do is to read through the material on this site and/or hire myself or one of our trainers for one on one training, group training, seminars, workshops etc. I look forward to sharing my continually expanding and changing knowledge base with you.
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