About The Author

Hello there,

My name is Piers and I am a 35 year old Englishman, brought up in Portsmouth but currently living in Yorkshire, England.

So why Stress-Relief-Choices?

That is a good question... It all started about 11 years ago.

I was working in the City in London after having graduated from Business school. I was working as a telesalesman making up to 50 calls a day.

The work was the most stressful I could have imagined. I remember that I had to psyche myself up every day before walking into the office. 'Come on, Piers, come on!'

I would then have to psyche myself up to make every phone call.

I became really stressed and started to really dislike being in London - the commute, the underground, my colleagues, being in a little box room sat in front of a computer all day... I wanted out.

Learning about Stress Relief

I started to read lots of books on spiritualism, new age therapies, meditation... you name it I started to get into it.

I found that I could resonate so much more with the new age material than I could with my colleagues.

I remember one day being in a bar after work and one of my colleagues asking me what book I was holding in my hand. "'You too can heal your life' by Louise Hay," I replied. Her jaw nearly dropped! This wasn't what a salesman should be reading.

I attended courses, worked as a volunteer in Romania and Ghana in Africa, did retreats but still something was missing.

Living in the monastery

The work in Africa had been fulfilling but totally draining. I learned a lot but I just needed a break - both physically and mentally.

I went on retreat for a few weeks and realized that I needed to find something more long term.

An opportunity arose at a Buddhist monastery in the north of England.

I arrived there with one bag and the intention to stay for 10 days...

Almost a thousand days later I left!

I hadn't intended to stay that long but it was definitely what I needed. I needed every single day I spent there.

Some of the time there was wonderful and I learned so many magical things. But some of the time was very challenging. Out of the 3 and a half years, almost 6 months were spent in silence.

But the truth is that I learned more from the challenging times than from the good times.

So with this knowledge I returned to lay life, the outside world.

The Birth of Stress-Relief-Choices.com

But after the year was up, I had run out of money.

The problem was that I didn't want to get a corporate job again. I had vowed on leaving London that I didn't want to do that.

But my financial situation worsened and I took a job working for a huge American multinational.

It was my idea of a nightmare.

I struggled against it at first, but with time I saw that I was able to integrate what I had learned in the monastery and in the rest of my life into my work.

I could cope with the stress that people were throwing at me and I was helping a lot of my colleagues by advising and talking to them.

I started to record stress relief talks almost daily automatically on my MP3 player. It felt wonderful and this knowledge I had learned was being immensely useful to me.

I started to teach stress relief at my workplace after work. So Stress-Relief-Choices.com was born.

I looked around for quite a long time for the right web hosting to put my website up on. I spoke with one lady who was earning a good living from her website.

"What website package are you using?" I asked.

"Site Buid It," she replied.

"Is it any good?" I asked.

"Well," she said, "I make my living through them and have done for the past few years!"

Wow, I thought, here I was working full time doing a job that I wasn't enjoying much, and I could be living her life... doing what I love, when I loved and not at the beck and call of my manager.

So I checked it out - and I mean I checked it out properly - I wasn't going to invest in something which wasn't 110% sure of.

I looked at the videos of some of the people who were already making a living online.

And I was impressed...

So much so that I took the plunge and ordered Site Build It.

Living The Life Of My Dreams

I was working full time so it took me a little while to get my site up - I worked in the evenings and at weekends.

By June 2007 my site was up.

I started to build it and gradually traffic grew...

So where am I now?

Well, to say that I am living the life of my dreams would not be far wrong.

I am no longer working for corporate America - I left about 2 years. I spend my days writing, walking, exercising, meditating, doing qigong, practicing yoga, and I do a bit of work as well...

And how has this been possible?

Through working from home, through using Site Build It (SBI).

I really recommend you take a look like I did 2 years ago. I am so glad that I did - from the city to the countryside; from stress to good health.

To your good health and to a stress free life,

Piers Cross

Discover SBI today - and start your own amazing journey.

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