Bob Proctor Gallagher Bob Proctor Born July 5, 1934 Guelph, Ontario, Canada Died February 3, 2022 (aged 87) Occupation Author sales...
Bob Proctor Gallagher
Bob Proctor is an American born in Canada, motivational speaker and author who is also a coach on success. He travels the world teaching people how to utilize the Law of Attraction to their own benefit. He has authored numerous books since 1997.
In 2006, Proctor starred in the film The Secret that was directed by the television writer and producer, Rhonda Byrne.
Bob is married to a lady by the name Linda Proctor. Nothing much is known of the Proctor family only that the couple has a son who is known as Brian Proctor.
Bob Proctor Career
As he was growing, Proctor dropped out of high school in his ninth grade and found himself struggling to get well-paying jobs. He, however, took up the low-paying jobs that he could find and when he was 26 years old, he came across the book “Think and Grow Rich” by Napoleon Hill. Proctor says that the book was what motivated him to change his mindset.
He studied the principles in the book and he went from making the few thousand dollars in a year he was from his low-paying jobs to $175,000 a year and over $1 million a year. He had started a company that washed floors and it quickly grew to cover corporate offices in Toronto, Boston, Cleveland, Atlanta, London, and Chicago.
You Were Born Rich and The Secret
Proctor later joined the Nightingale-Conant Organization and worked his way up within the company, claiming to have been mentored by Earl Nightingale.
In 1984, the book You Were Born Rich,was published by McCrary Publishing. Prior to that, other publishers sent the book back to him noting that "this book is absurd." Australian-based filmmaker Rhonda Byrne discovered Proctor's book and led her to requesting he be interviewed and participate in the 2006 movie The Secret.Financial experts express caution from not making sound investments when following the advice of You Were Born Rich.
Proctor began working for Earl Nightingale in 1961 and soon rose to the position of Vice President of Sales. He started his own network of nineteen companies that specialized in personal development in the seminars it provided, programs, books, and one-on-one coaching to clients.
He also launched the Proctor Gallagher Institute with Sandy Gallagher. Bob has had interviews on the Ellen show and Larry King Live. During the latter, Proctor explained the ideas of self-development in his perspective, bringing into light his explanation on how one should be on the quest to recognize his best self and to polish that version and take it with him on the road to success. He also talked about how creativity and imagination plays a significant impact on becoming happy and achieving incredible results in all facets of life.
Bob Proctor Books
Proctor has authored and contributed to the writing of very many books. The following list is not exhaustive but rather it contains a select number of his books.
» 2019 – 12 Power Principles for Success
» 2018 – The Art of Thinking: Change Your Mindset, Change Your Life (with Sandra Gallagher)
» 2017 – Destinies (with Peggy McColl and Sandy Gallagher)
» 2016 – The 7 Power Principles for Success
» 2015 – The Art of Living
» 2015 – The ABCs of Success
» 2014 – Take Action Now! (with Maria Nemeth and Jimmy Mack)
» 2014 – Thoughts Are Things: Turning Your Ideas Into Realities
» 2011 – The Infinite Power Within (with Lorie Gannon)
» 2011 – Stop Wishing, Start Winning (with Dean Philpott)
» 2008 – It’s Not About the Money
» 2006 – Become a Magnet to Money Through the Sea of Unlimited Consciousness
» 1984 – You Were Born Rich
Throughout his material, Proctor aimed to have the reader tap into their "inner self". He suggested their "inner-self" controls all that is brought into their life and that a bad self-image, which he called a "paradigm", lead to poor results even among those with adequate knowledge and abilities.Instead of academic education, which Proctor argued was detrimental, Proctor recommended students attend his seminars and follow his program of branded personal development.
Despite any evidence supporting the Law of Attraction, Proctor contended that everything in the universe vibrates and that similar vibrations attract each other. Using images of Kirlian photography, Proctor further argued that a person's body emitted an "energy field" and that the mind and body vibrate at specific frequencies which if harnessed could produce specific results. He suggested that given humans are capable of controlling their thoughts, they could choose to manipulate these vibrational frequencies and thus control their outcomes by attracting objects which vibrate at a similar frequency. Critics claimed Proctor's teachings were a pseudoscientific misunderstanding of quantum mechanics. In response, Proctor claimed his teachings were "the basic laws of the universe".
Proctor claimed there was nothing in a person's life they could not change through the Law of Attraction.Proctor also suggested that even a global recession was the result of excessive vibrational negativity which attracted the recession to the economy. In a 2009 article, The Wall Street Journal opined that if any of Proctor's followers believed that they could simply choose not to participate in the recession they were "being shammed".
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