Brett Moran - Wake the F*ck Up: Transform Your Life into One Epic Adventure

WAKE THE
F#CK UP

BRETT MORAN

WAKE THE
F#CK UP

TRANSFORM YOUR LIFE INTO
ONE EPIC ADVENTURE

DEDICATION

This book is dedicated to Ella Louise! The little angel who woke me up when I needed it most. Thank you for helping Daddy with his transformation, you really saved my life and youre the kindest, funniest and cheekiest little monkey I know. You continue to teach me that life is one epic adventure and I love our time together because you remind me whats really important in life, such as unconditional love, kindness and connection. You can be anything you want to be, baby always follow your heart.

CONTENTS

PREFACE

WHEN THE WAKE-UP CALL STARTS KNOCKING

BELIEVE NOTHING. NO MATTER WHERE YOU READ IT, OR WHO SAID IT, EVEN IF I HAVE SAID IT, UNLESS IT AGREES WITH YOUR OWN REASON AND YOUR OWN COMMON SENSE. The Buddha

5 JANUARY 1999

Parked up in my Fiat Bravo at 3am, I found myself breaking off white rocks for another crack pipe... I was high, paranoid and losing the plot. I hadnt slept in days and my mistrustful thoughts obsessed about the people, police and enemies out to get me. Each hit sent me further into a dark and cruel world and each delusional thought sent shudders of panic down my spine the drugs had me hostage. I had a love-hate relationship with crack: the addictive side of me loved the artificial buzz and instant high; the real me hated what it was doing to my life the suicidal lows, the deceitfulness, the withdrawal symptoms.

But in the next crazy, cracked-out moment, I suddenly got very clear... a voice started talking in my head that sounded nothing like the usual critical and destructive chatter that drove me mad. This new voice was louder but strangely softer, and it pierced through the negativity and the cunning and deceitful stories living inside my head. Up to that point, dealing drugs, getting high, scamming people and not giving a f#ck about anyone but me just felt normal, something I did, and who I was. The truth is I was lost in the chaotic world I had created but I didnt know how bad it was about to get crack cocaine had sucked me in after my first pipe!

On this particular night, sitting there in my motor, I blew out a cloud of crack fumes and, as my brain buzzed on the last evil and delicious hit, I looked at my mate and told him what this new voice had said: Im going to sort myself out and write a book. He looked at me seriously for a moment then laughed and called me a nutter! Quite right too I was f#cked!

I get it. Nobody likes to be told to Wake the f#ck up! But the title caught your attention, right? Its like saying to someone you might have got it wrong. Our ego screams, How f#cking dare you! Who do you think you are! We defend our identity and behaviours until were blue in the face. But waking up simply means gaining more knowledge, opening your mind and finding a better way of doing things so you can make your life easier. Because living a life you didnt consciously create or choose always gives you more of the same whether its being stuck in a job that sucks the life out of you, locked away in a prison cell, spending your whole life in debt, feeling trapped by drugs or any other addictive habits that seem normal, being at a crossroads in your life, or simply following the crowd and going round in stressful circles. In a nutshell, waking up simply means setting yourself free.

Waking up is also a science and a process, and comes in many different shapes, sizes and stages. Having spent way too many years hitting way too many rock bottoms and starting over again, I know that anyone can wake up from any sleepy daydream or living nightmare they feel stuck in and create something far more epic for themselves. Anyone can change any behaviour, take control of their life and live for the better, if they choose to put in the work, of course! I believe there is the power and potential inside everyone on Earth to start again and create a life that ignites a fire in their belly, and, when they do, wonderful things begin to shift inside and life changes naturally and its never too late to wake up!

After ten years of personal transformation, Ive discovered that waking the f#ck up is about getting back in the driving seat of your life. It takes you out of this cloudy fog and gives you more choices and freedom. It puts you back in touch with who you really are at a very deep level so you can choose who you want to become, what you want to achieve and how you want to show up in the world. Deep down we all want to be free from the pressure of the never-ending treadmill. We want to feel more from life than the flat line that has hypnotized millions of people. I also believe that its our inner strength, the love in our hearts and the power of our imaginations that set us free. It might not seem like it now, or feel like too big a leap from where you are to where you want to be, but there is something inside you that can guide your life and help you activate your full potential.

So what do you want to do? Change? To step it up, learn new skills and make life more meaningful, or ignore that inner calling and carry on plodding down the same old path?

Choose not to change and its obvious what happens. We get the same results year after year. Same amount of money, same addictions, same heavy feelings, same unwanted thoughts and the same relationships. We give up on our dreams and stay trapped in societys hypnotic illusions of happiness and running faster than ever before in this rat race just to keep up with the social norms but getting nowhere.

I know how it feels to get to that point, knowing that something needs to change, but feeling intimidated and scared by it. You may feel like youve lost your way. Not sure which way to turn. Doubt yourself and your ability to succeed. Like your spark has gone or life is all about paying the bills and doing what everyone else is doing while all the time feeling like somethings missing and there must be more to it than waking up each day and going through the motions. If life seems to be slipping away from you right now, you feel flat and lost or youre ready for the next step and you really want more, then its definitely time to wake the f#ck up.

In my experience, feeling lost, flat, at rock bottom, frustrated, pissed off, stuck, or simply bored means its time to look within, pay attention to your inner itch, and connect to your inner voice because when you do then something epic is just around the corner! If you have this book in your hands then you have it for a bigger reason than you think. You are on the edge of transformation, and something is calling you to step it up, now is your time!

Let the real adventure begin!

BIG LOVE,

Brett xxx

INTRODUCTION

WAKE THE F#CK UP

THE BEST WAY TO MAKE YOUR DREAMS COME TRUE IS TO WAKE UP. Paul Valry

13 NOVEMBER 2001

I was 19 when my 17-year-old girlfriend fell pregnant with Ella in Tenerife. Originally Id fled there because I was due to appear in court for my second drink-driving offence. Id also been joyriding a stolen car at the time so I knew Id get sent down. My mates had done time in prison and it wasnt for me. I had a criminal record for possession of class-A drugs, racism, affray, the usual story for a kid growing up in my neighbourhood, but I wasnt ready for prison, so when Dad offered to help me do a runner to Tenerife and pay for my plane ticket, I jumped at the chance and packed my bags. On the day I was due to fly out, my solicitor phoned to tell Dad that the police had screwed up the evidence and Id been let off on a technicality. They threw the case out of court and I flew to Tenerife a free man, sold timeshares on the beach, got drunk in the sun and took ecstasy.