At the age of 29 he resigned and after selling his house he decided to do creative writing and trained to fly a helicopter.

He also paddled 2600 miles (4000 km) in a kayak through the Canadian Arctic over 113 days ending up trapped in ice in the Beaufort Sea (Arctic Ocean).

After making a fortunate escape with the aid of the Canadian Arctic Rescue Clifford decided to study hypnosis, psychology and NLP.

He became a certified and accredited NLP Practitioner (20 day program with Inspiritive Ltd, Australia). Followed by becoming a certified and accredited NLP Master Practioner (20 day program with Inspiritive Ltd, Australia). He was also certified by Dr. John Grinder (co-developer of NLP) in NLP Modeling.

He also become a certified Practitioner of Ericksonian Hypnosis (12 day program with Inspiritive Ltd, Australia) and went on to being an Assistant Instructor for a second 12 day certified Ericksonian Hypnosis program.

After that Clifford attended numerous programs around the world in hypnosis, coaching and psychology. He went on to found his own Hypnotherapy practice before becoming the co-founder of "Street Hypnosis" and the Hypnosis Training Academy with Igor Ledochowski.