One Goal, Many Paths

By Wolfgang Riebe

The Success Series. Expert knowledge from leading speakers, trainers and authors in the category of Human Development and Personal Growth.

Craig Ferreira: Great White Success
June Hamman: The Power Within
Karl Smith: Relationships & Credibility
Wolfgang Riebe: Discover Your Passion

The first book in a series of Personal Growth topics through which leading speakers and authors share their insights and experience towards empowering humanity. In this book you will be taken on a journey of discovery in which you will be shown how to overcome fear, discover your inner power, embracing your authentic self, and re-discovering the passion within yourself. This book will culminate in the realization that success is within everybody’s reach, irrespective of which path you may take.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Wolfgang Riebe
• Release date: May 22, 2013
• ISBN: 9781301921782

Wolfgang Riebe

Wolfgang began his career as a magician on British television on BBC & ITV, later traveling around the world as a headline act on cruise liners before tackling expeditions throughout the Arctic & Antarctic where he performed world-class illusions to thousands of international passengers.In later years he relocated to Cape Town from where he focused on the EMEA market combining strategically planned illusions with speaking in order to reinforce corporate messaging throughout Africa, Europe and the Middle East. He completed a thesis in Complexity Thinking and its affect on Innovation amongst leadership in multi-national organisations at the York St John university in the UK.In 2012 the National Speakers Association (NSA) awarded Wolfgang the CSP (Certified Speaking Professional) designation, which is the highest award given to any professional speaker in the speaking world. This designation is currently only held by less than 800 professional speakers globally.His passion is to share life truths and connect people through logical thinking and fun, as can be validated through his You Tube channel (inspiringtheworld) with over 1000 videos. In 2015 he appeared as a TEDx speaker and is currently based in Geneva, Switzerland where he focuses on the English Speaking meetings & events market and has performed in over 165 countries during the last 30 years.From symposiums, conferences, strategic planning sessions, cruise liners, television to expeditions, his vast variety of incredible life experiences make him the perfect host as your Keynote Speaker, Master of Ceremonies and Celebrity Comedy Entertainer, turning your whole event into an unforgettable sophisticated experience where creates Memorable Magical Moments for everyone.

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ONE GOAL MANY PATHS

By Craig Ferreira, June Hamman, Karl Smith & Wolfgang Riebe

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DEDICATION

This book is dedicated to everyone who has a dream, and isn't quite sure how to realize it. May you find your answers in these pages and live the life you were meant to lead.

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CONTENTS

Foreword

Craig Ferreira

Great White Success

June Hamman

The Power Within

Karl Smith

Success Bleeds Relationships & Credibility

Wolfgang Riebe

Discover Your Passion

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FOREWORD

Four of the country's top speakers have come together to bring you this thought provoking and inspirational book on achieving your dreams. Successful speakers, each sharing their views, tips and experiences on how you can do it.

As a publisher, we asked each one to write their stories independently of each other, yet you will find that they all talk about the same basic principles, with passion for life being foremost.

It is also fantastic to see 4 different perspectives and styles of writing, yet each brings us back to the same core message – your life is in your hands, you can do anything and everything you want, as long as you take responsibility for your actions and love what you do – the universe will look after you.

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CRAIG FERREIRA

Craig spent his life working with public enemy number one, the great white shark, which in itself is challenging.  Added to this, the extremely hostile environment these animals live in - the unforgiving ocean and specialised equipment, provided him with unique opportunities to learn the art of working in a high tension arena where pushing the limits and stepping outside of the comfort zone was a daily routine. In fact, there was no comfort zone.

Today, he uses his unique experiences, knowledge and insights into the true realms of working on the edge to clearly show his audience that we need never fear our challenges. He believes that our greatest gains, our greatest lives, lay waiting just beyond our fears and once we develop the skills and resolve to transcend our perceived limitations, we are richly rewarded.  We begin engaging life on the level of the heart and not from an intellectual perspective only, and this is where the flow is realised.

Professional History

- In 1990 he joined the White Shark Research Project of the Shark Centre at the SA Natural History Museum.

- 1991 to 1992 he became operations officer and from 1992 to 1995 operations director.

- 1995 to 1997 Director of the SA White Shark Research Institute.

- In 1997 he founded White Shark Projects together with his wife.

Publications & Books

Craig is a world authority on white shark behaviour and white shark attacks. His new book, 'Great White Sharks on Their Best Behaviour' is now being published by Random House, followed by a white shark novel called, The Shark, to be published by May 2009. Craig has been featured in magazines from all corners of the globe, and written many articles for magazines like Peak Performance, Africa Adventure, Dive International, Diver, Immersed.

Documentaries

Craig has worked on and featured in numerous documentaries, including National Geographic, BBC, The History Channel and Discovery Channel. He is currently working on a Discovery series called Shark Family where he is one of the main characters.

Achievements:

- Youngest person to catch a white shark at age 11.

- First person to attach a camera to and take blood from a white shark.

- He has tagged more white sharks than any other person in the world.

- The pioneer of solo free diving with white sharks.

- First person to explore white sharks in a bite tube.

- Guest of honor at the Royal Geographic Society in London and main speaker.

- Designed an ecologically friendly anti shark system called the Shark Fence for the City of Cape Town.

- Wrote the first paper on Population Dynamics of white sharks in Southern Africa.

Contact info:

Website: www.craigferreira.co.za; Email: [e-mail]

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GREAT WHITE SUCCESS

Life is an adventure but we lose sight of this truth in the mists of our fears. - Craig Anthony Ferreira.

Fear holds us back, it drains us of our passion for life, it keeps us from our dreams and cuts off the flow of opportunity but each and every one of us can easily transcend our fears, doubts and limitations if we are willing to put into practice certain principals. In my life with the great white shark, I have been able to tap into a number of principals that have allowed me to step up and engage life at its highest level.

The Shark.

I had to force myself not to twist my head and look over my shoulder to see where the shark was. My hands clenched tighter around the two, taught, 7mm thick cotton ropes that ran down on each side of me and as the seconds stretched into long moments of time, my pulse quickened with the anticipated impact. Another second became suspended in time and then it hit, all one thousand two hundred kilograms of pure muscle and raw energy.

The clear plastic lexan thumped me hard in the back and in that same instant, I heard something crack and then snap. The sounds were muffled under the water, but my senses were on high alert so the noise seemed to explode into my eardrums.

Now, I swung around to face the shark and as my eyes adjusted into focus, I found myself looking straight into the monsters gaping jaws and deep throat and there, running down like a deep cut right in front of my eyes was the crack I had heard. The shark had struck hard and direct and instead of rolling away from the animal, my protective, ‘indestructible’ bite tube had buckled under the pressure and failed.

The crack ran from the top, in a straight line to about half way down the tube and then it veered off in a jagged journey to the left where it eventually came to a stop on the joint that kept the apparatus together.

I watched in awe as the shark’s triangular teeth left deep imprints when they slipped along the lexan. I knew that if that lexan was flesh, those teeth would have been cutting right down to the bone. When her teeth came away from the tube, she hung in the water and looked at me, then, with a flick of her enormous tail, stretching one and a half meters from tip to tip, she faded into the depths once more.

As soon I could no longer see the shark, I pushed up to the surface. I did not want to be in the broken tube if she struck again and just the thought of it, caused my heart rate to double because once before, I had a tube fail on me and those frightening images of my near death experience came flooding back.

That last strike was a hell of an impact, shouted Mike, with a grin spread across his face.

Man, I thought she was going to go right through the tube. You should see it – it’s bust right down the middle, from top to bottom. Get me out of here before she comes back.

Mike and Gerald took up the tether lines and pulled the bite tube up to the dive platform. I released my weight belt before handing it up to Gerald and then I heaved myself up onto the safety of the platform. I noticed that the platform was moving up and down and waves were breaking over it. There was far more movement than when I went in an hour before so I got to my feet and looked around at the sea. The wind had shifted from southeast to southwest and now, the ocean looked uneasy with large white caps covering the entire bay.

It's pretty rough out here.

Yeah, the wind shifted about a half hour ago and has been increasing ever since. We were going to haul your arse out of the tube if you did not come up when you did, said Mike.

A south westerly wind was not good and I knew that the sea would get bigger by the minute so we wasted no time in winching the bite tube back on board. It took about twenty minutes for us to get everything prepared for the ride back and by then, the wind had doubled in velocity and the sea was really starting to look ugly, promising a hard steam back to the harbor.

That day, like many other days, was another day in the office for me. I am a white shark specialist and my particular interest is complex white shark behaviour and shark attack.

The Bite Tube is an apparatus I designed for the very purpose of exploring the realm of shark attack. It is essentially a round poly-carbon tube that provides me with a shield of protection against attacking sharks. Because the poly-carbon has a similar density to water and because it emits no electrical filed, it is invisible to the sharks so all they perceive, is me out in the ocean with them.

I have explored shark attack through the activity of free diving with great white sharks but for obvious reasons, free diving with these super predators is a highly calculated occupation. Before I enter the water, I have to look at all the variables and then proceed accordingly. I will consider water visibility that is critical, sea conditions, and the angle of the sun, the sharks and then, how I feel on that particular day. Once I have weighed all this up, I will decide whether