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| Adversity - Friend or Foe? This page will give you a better understanding of adversity and help you open up to the possibility that it can be a friend, not a foe. Here you can learn more about Dan's life and the challenges that he has overcome. All of us have a story. At some point in our life, we had to overcome a severe challenge of some kind or the loss of a loved one. Although life can seem tough sometimes, we are here to confirm there is always a light at the end of the tunnel. We truly believe we are always where we need to be for a reason. Dan Dugo has personally experienced challenges and adversities in his life that at times seemed impossible to overcome. He is here today, alive and well, experiencing abundance in many ways and feeling positive about life and his future. Each day he is working toward his goals and fulfilling his life's work and purpose. Most importantly, he has the opportunity to meet amazing individuals each day that bring new lessons and experiences that consistently push him to grow even more. Things were not always this way. We will now share with you some of the most intimate details and traumatic events of Dan's life to show you that it does not matter where you come from in life or where you are now. Anything can change in a heartbeat. All you need is the willingness to seek the coaches, mentors, strategies, and tools to make the desired transformation. For most of his life, Dan appeared to be okay because he learned to become numb emotionally, but under the surface he struggled with quiet desperation. He blamed his dysfunctional upbringing for creating the belief systems that held him back from success. His predominant beliefs were: |
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| His daily emotions were anger, depression, and frustration. He lived with fears of intimacy, commitment, success, failure, trusting people, and rejection. On a daily basis, Dan felt little motivation, and went through the motions to do his job. He was overweight, feeling down, and fatigued. His doctor tested him and labeled him with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and an underactive thyroid. He was later prescribed Synthroid (tm), claiming his thyroid was the cause for his fatigue and weight gain. With little or no alleviation of the symptoms, Dan sought the advice of a therapist that started a 7-year cycle of therapy and led him to four different therapists and two psychiatrists. He was diagnosed with Clinical Depression and Attention Deficit Disorder (A.D.D). After a long cycle of medications for ADD, and several antidepressants including Prozac(tm), Wellbutrin(tm), and Paxil(tm), Dan had little improvement. Some of his therapists explained, and Dan agreed, the reason for his depression, fears, anxiety, and other problems was all of the traumatic events during his dysfunctional upbringing. Dan felt there was very little light at the end of the tunnel, and he could not even imagine, at that time, that it was his belief system, choices, diet, and lifestyle creating these challenges. He did not even think he had the ability to change. Just like many others, Dan was raised in an indigent neighborhood in Brooklyn, New York. Along with two siblings, he was raised by his single mother who was emotionally and psychologically ill-equipped for parenting. His father was not around and many times there was no money for food. Things were tough. At age six, he was removed from his home by child welfare because of serious physical abuse by his mother. Over the next eight years, Dan was bounced around between home and three other homes with relatives, experiencing more serious physical and emotional abuse. At age eight, a highly trusted family friend sexually molested him. Dan's teenage years consisted of more abuse and mistreatment in addition to experiencing his mother and sister being subjected to the same. In his later teens, things started to look up for a while. His mother was receiving help and was doing well, so the family moved to a better neighborhood in Queens to live a better life and get a fresh start. Due to the circumstances, Dan was forced to drop out of high school and work full-time to help support the household. It was only a short time before his mother was diagnosed with breast cancer and died several months later. In his mid-20's, Dan started the 7-year cycle of therapy after years of depression, anger, failed relationships, financial struggle, and difficulty trusting people. At age 31, he decided to forgive his father for not being there, and started to build a relationship with him. Dan hit rock bottom when his relationship with his father was defeated by his father's lung disease. He gained more weight and was struggling financially with bills for medication and therapy. He realized he would probably be in therapy for many more years. His therapist told him that he would probably need the medications for a long time. This information, along with current circumstances, created more doubt and hopelessness. With the past haunting him, the present struggles, and the future seeming very dim, Dan strongly considered taking his life. He saw no other options until a friend changed everything. His friend--Thomas Commiskey whom he had met several years prior at a charity they both worked for--suggested a seminar. He had attended so many seminars and read so many books at this point by the likes of Les Brown, Brian Tracy, Wayne Dyer, and Mark Victor Hansen that he just couldn't justify the expense. He thought there was just too much pain. Dan doubted that one more seminar could change everything that was going on in his life. He had already started listening to Tony's tapes and felt a change, but he had stopped listening to them. Soon thereafter, some coincidences convinced Dan to attend. This seminar proved to be the one event that would catapult him to a whole new level emotionally, physically, psychologically, financially, and spiritually. He is highly appreciative of all the great speakers and coaches whose seminars and books have greatly helped him. In addition, he obtained powerful tools for change that most therapists do not even know exist. Dan has a great deal of respect for therapists and realizes there is an important place for their work in society. He had considered becoming a therapist, but feels he can help many more people as a speaker and life coach. Dan hopes all therapists, counselors, and doctors will obtain training in Timeline Therapy(tm) and other updated techniques. This will shave years or decades off their patients' recovery time and boost results. Dan is now trained in many more powerful tools that he uses in his work as a life coach. For over three years now, Dan has maintained a 30-pound weight loss, has been off all medication, has not seen any doctors or therapists, has repaid his debt, and has cleared away his financial problems. He is now in the best physical, emotional, financial, psychological, and spiritual shape of his entire life. He is extremely grateful to all of the great speakers, authors, friends, and coaches that have pulled him up the ladder so he can now help pull others up. Dan believes it is our purpose in life to tap into our true potential, and to impact the lives of all those around us in the most powerful way possible, so they and our future generations will benefit. Dan now uses the tools, strategies, philosophies, concepts, and information he has learned in his many years of study to help others achieve their deserved happiness and freedom. We hope this story will serve as a reminder to you that although traumatic events and negative experiences impact our mindset, emotions, decisions, and actions, we have the power of choice, and that is our greatest power. It does not matter where you come from or where you are today. |
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The only question is: What are you prepared to do to make that transformation?
If your answer is-- Whatever it takes. GO FOR IT! SEE YOU AT THE TOP! |
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