Sometimes all it takes is a single thought
Eileen Mulligan made a fortune in the beauty industry, then a back injury left her
disabled and bedridden just as a serious dispute broke out which threatened to
cripple her business.
She says, ‘It looked like I had to have spinal surgery, andI wondered how I was
going to survive the next six weeks. I realised I wasn’t going to naturally wake up
full of happy thoughts, but I did think if I could change the way I feel without chang-
ing my circumstances, just my thought processes, what could I do when I was back
on my feet? So I concentrated on this. And I did it.’
It made all the difference. Eileen quit the business rather than continue the battle,
and became a personal development coach. She has been so successful that her
book, Life Coaching, is a bestseller and her clients include a number of well-known
politicians and celebrities. The turning point? A change in her way of thinking!
9 SILENCING THE INNER CRITIC