The Sleep Secret Audio

Blog post 7 in Connie Ragen’s 30 Days Blog Challenge.

This blog post is a guest post written by a dear friend of mine:

Hello,

 my name is Thomas “Trapper” Sherwood.

 I want to thank my good friend Claus D Jensen for asking me to write a blog post on how “The Sleep Secret Audio” came into existence.

Claus and I “met” through the forum at Milagro world over a year ago, and it has been an incredible friendship ever since.

Let me set this up for you, and how it all ties together.

Back in November 2003 I went through some deep problems in my personal life (divorce). These problems lead to an incredible lack of sleep, aka; insomnia. As a small business man, I felt like the weight of the world had fallen on me going through a divorce. Not only was I trying to run a business, but couple that with the responsibility of raising my daughter who was nine at the time, well to be truthful, I just didn’t know how I was going to do it all.

During that first year I lost a lot of sleep. Some nights I was awake all night worrying how I would pay the bills all by myself.

 Some nights I worried how to raise my daughter. Still other nights I worried who would want a single middle-aged man with a child.

It seemed liked I tossed and turned or stared up at the ceiling all night for many, many months in a row.

One day I came across an out of print book that dealt with how to get a good night’s sleep. I needed this book & the secrets within. As I read this book, and applied what I learned, I soon discovered how to put myself to sleep, and most importantly, stay asleep all night and get the much deserved sleep I so desired.

After about thirty days of using the techniques I learned in this book, I knew I needed to let other people with the same problems know about this. This lead me to putting up one of my first websites and offering 
this out of print book available as an “ebook.”

During the next eighteen months or so, with my limited knowledge on how to build a business on the web, it sold surprising well. But about June of 07, I noticed sales starting to drop off. I couldn’t do much about it at the time as my full-time business was keeping my very active.

Somewhere around October of 08 I was discussing with a buddy of mine what was going on with it and he simply blurted out “No one wants to read on their computer how to fall asleep.” This got me thinking and put my wheels in my brain housing group into gear.

One day in Milagro World I read about this man from Denmark (Claus D Jensen) that was doing audios to help children and their parents be calm and serene before, during and after childbirth. Pretty cool, but the light didn’t go on over my head…yet.

Fast forward to the day after Christmas December 26th, 2008. I had just dropped my daughter off at the Mother’s house for the Christmas Holiday, and I was sitting at my kitchen table. All alone, and deep in thought. I was thinking about my sleep book. Maybe I should start recording the whole book. Nope, that idea wasn’t lighting a fire under me. The “Clearing Audio” by Pat O’Bryan & Joe Vitale played in the background as I sat there thinking.

Then the thought occurred!

I will record the “How To” part of the sleep secret ebook. The part that actually teaches people how to fall asleep and stay asleep! Now I felt I was on to something!

I thought all the steps through, to do this, but I needed some music. I remember the interview with Claus Jensen. I went back to Milagro World, and reread it. Maybe he is the guy? Then again a doubt crept in, maybe he wouldn’t do. But I had been reading Joe Vitale and taking inspired action. In my mind, this was something inspiring!

So I emailed Claus, introduced myself, and my crazy idea. And then waited. I figured if he got back to me, it would be in a couple of days. About an hour or so later I decided to check email, to see if Mum & Dad had written or any of my friends. Lo & behold, there was an email from Claus! Do I dare open it? What if he said no? But what if he said yes?

It was an answer, and the answer was YES! He would love to do something like this with me! As we exchanged emails back and forth on the idea, the CD now known as “The Sleep Secret Audio” was born! I would do some trial recordings, and email them to Claus, he would listen to them, email me back suggestions on how to get the right recording levels. This went on a few times, until I got the “OK” from him. He would send me samples of his inspired music. This was pretty exciting for me.

Now the time had come for me to do my recordings. I set my little recording studio up, took a deep breath, and knocked out the recording in one take!

And the rest they say is now history!

Claus has mixed and mastered “The Sleep Secret Audio”, and within a month we had a website up, and a product to sell. Within two weeks we had out first sale, and we have not looked back! I am truly grateful for his talent, but most of all for his friendship.

Thanks again Claus,

Thomas “Trapper” Sherwood

Ressources:
The Sleep Secret Audio
Mind Vacation Meditation
Free “Peaceful Recess” Audio