Who Is Bruce Muzik Anyway?
Where I Came From
I was born and raised in South Africa by two incredible parents, Petr and Diana Muzik. I really owe most of my success in life to them, as they always encouraged me to follow my dreams and find my own path. I am forever grateful to have them in my life.
As a teenager, I had a dream of one day becoming a rock star. Seriously!
My musical career was definitely not plain sailing, but by 2002 I had penned a song that went to #1 on the charts in South Africa and stayed there for 6 weeks running.
A turning point came in my early twenties when I was given a book called 'Mind Power' by John Kehoe. The book was all about how to manifest your reality by using the power of the mind.
After excitedly devouring the book, I decided to test if Kehoe's methods of using the mind to create reality actually worked in real life...
I found my first experiment in the local Top40 music magazine, where I noticed a competition to win a beautiful Fender Stratocaster guitar autographed by the rock band 'Live'.
For weeks I drove around following Kehoe's instructions - shouting affirmations to myself in my car like a lunatic, imagining my phone ringing and someone from the magazine telling me that I had won this beautiful prized guitar.
Well, less than a month later, I did get that phone call and I won my dream guitar! It seemed that this Mind Power stuff really worked!
Another turning point came when I attended a personal development seminar called The Landmark Forum in 2002.
The seminar leader (Larry Pearson) who lead my Landmark Forum was the most powerful man I had ever met at that time. His ability to transform people's lives through just a simple conversation was astonishing and inspiring to me.
During the seminar, I felt a calling to make a difference if people's lives and I decided to learn to do what he did.
After many years of intense training with some of the world's greatest teachers, I launched Designer Life, my first personal development training company.
I was blessed with great timing and Designer Life took off faster than I ever dreamed.
After several years of intense touring, leading seminars all over the world, I began to look for a more efficient way to teach without having to travel as much.
I turned my attention to the internet as a platform to teach from and began building several online businesses where I could make a difference without having to be constantly on the move.
I now run several websites where I help my clients live more, earn more and turn their dreams into reality through my coaching and information products.
Where I'm Going
Buying into social norms has never been my strong suit.
It seems to me that most people have (to some degree) resigned themselves to
- not experiencing the love they crave to feel
- not achieving the goals they deeply desire
- not expressing who they authentically are in the world
- not making the difference they secretly know they are capable of making
In other words, living an average life, where mediocrity and low level suffering are the norms.
Nothing wrong with an average life, however it seems like such a waste to me when so much is possible for each and every one of us.
Most of us accept mediocrity and suffering because we don't know how to change it or that it can be changed...
...so we wander through life bored - our self-expression muted, our senses dulled, our expectations low... never really experiencing what it feels like to truly LIVE, to feel your heart race with the excitement of being ALIVE and truly experience LOVE.
I see it as my job to support the renaissance of human aliveness - a coming back to Life for people no longer willing to accept average as the norm.
It's been my observation that the quickest, most powerful way to come back to Life is to get in touch with who you authentically are at your core and get busy telling the truth about that.
This is what I'm passionate about helping people do.
My Addictions
Here's a few of the things I enjoy:
- Kitesurfing
- Adventure motorcycling
- Spontaneous travel
- Coaching entrepreneurs make more money and have more fun
- Studying marketing, philosophy and psychology
- Working out
Other Interesting Trivia
- I currently live on Cabarete beach in the Dominican Republic (Caribbean) where I can kitesurf daily. I spend the rest of the year traveling between South Africa and the USA.
- I lived as the only white man in an African ghetto for 6 months (video interview here) in an attempt to overcome my racial conditioning growing up in apartheid South Africa (read the BBC article). The story made the front page.
- I co-wrote a song that went to #1 on the South African charts and stayed there for 6 weeks. Listen to 'Are You The One' sung by Jerusha and written by Jerusha and I. The remix is here.
- My favorite toys are my Benelli Tornado motorcycle, my iPhone and my Aggression kiteboard..
- I was voted 2nd place in the XL Foundation's 2009 'Extraordinary Lives Awards' out of more than 3000 entrepreneurs.
- My blog voted 2nd place in the YouTube category of the 2010 Social Media awards.
- I am passionate about kitesurfing. One of my favorite memories was kitesurfing in the Caribbean with my entrepreneurial hero, Sir Richard Branson.
- A book I coauthored, "Thank God I" went to #1 in the 'inspirational' category of Amazon.com.
- I've been featured on the front cover of a national newspaper, on TV, radio, the BBC, London's Financial Times, CEO magazine and many more...
- I've been married, divorced and am proudly great friends with my ex-wife.
So there you have it.
If you'd like to get in touch with me or book a personal one-on-one coaching session, get in touch with me here.
Thanks for reading...
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