Change your life on a train journey and overcome your fears from the comfort of your bed. In this second volume of thought-provoking, short articles designed to be read anywhere we find further enlightenment in Geoff Thompson's no-nonsense, pragmatic philosophy. With insights that come from hard living and brutal self honesty. In his anti-intuitive and yet highly functional and profitable life lessons Geoff encourages us to follow our own maps, lose our fear by hunting our demons, escape our 'Yezidi circles' and (at all costs) avoid being on the Jeremy Kyle Show. A must read for anyone who wants to negotiate the fast lane of life with an accurate road map. AUTHOR: Geoff Thompson made violence his profession working as a doorman at some of Britain's roughest clubs. As the holder of the rank of 6th Dan black belt in Japanese karate, 1st Dan in Judo and equally well qualified in other martial arts he is a TOUGH man. As well as many books he has written a film script, Watch My back, based on his life and a stage play, One Sock, that inspired The Royal Court Theatre in London's West End to invite him into their exclusive writers' group. In 1997 Geoff was flown out to the United States by Chuck Norris to teach at his international seminar. As an ambassador for the martial arts, Geoff has appeared on national and international TV and Radio - for a couple of years as the BBC Good Morning self defence expert - talking about and, giving advice on self protection and related subjects. His work is both innovative and thought provoking. He is currently Sub Editor of Martial Arts Illustrated and contributory editor of Men's Fitness magazine.He has published several articles for mainstream glossy magazines such as Loaded, Maxim, FHM, Arena, Esquire and has published several articles with GQ Magazine (Britain-Paris). He has also appeared many times on mainstream TV including ITV's Martial Arts: The Real Story televised in two - one hour programmes. As well as his books and videos He was Martial Arts choreographer for the production 'Hard Fruit' at the Royal Court, London and winner of the EMDA Award for the screenplay of the film 'Watch My Back'. In 2004 Geoff's short film Brown Paper Bag won a BAFTA. SELLING POINTS: A proven following with several hundred of thousands of books already sold Geoff has a ready market hungry for more words of wisdom. The author has three powerful and controvesial films being released around the same time as this book that are set to cause waves. They are backed by a concentrated campaign of publicity in all the major magazines, papers and TV/radio interview shows, with a guaranteed million pound marketing campaign from Lonsdale in 400 stores of Lillywhites.