"After all it's the journey that is the reward. And the answers must be around the next bend in the path"
- Steve Jobs
- Steve Jobs
It would have been nice to have the 'me now' when I left school. Like many of us I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life. I had completed a maths/science course but had no idea why. My older brothers had done very well for themselves with one a doctor, one a Senior Executive in the public sector and one an architect. My mum had died and my dad wasn't well and living with my brother in the country. I ended up working in Local Government Administration, my first job being to open the mail! I completed a Diploma in Business Studies and stayed in Local Government for the next 15 years. I hated it. I was lost. It took me 15 years of my life to do nothing. Achieve nothing. Go nowhere. I knew that I was destined for something where I could use my head so I found a job with BP. Things got a bit better because the job was better. But then cutbacks and a 'golden handshake' after 5 years. Hmmmm...... what now?
I used my golden handshake to live for the next 12 months but the job market was hard. When I ran out of cash I reluctantly got a commission only job as a finance broker, which led to a new career in finance, banking and finally Financial Planning. Great! I did OK but all along I never once 'bounced' out of bed looking forward to the day ahead. Pretty sad, huh? Then I had a crack. I got greedy and lost. BANG. Crash and burn. Then this.......
I used my golden handshake to live for the next 12 months but the job market was hard. When I ran out of cash I reluctantly got a commission only job as a finance broker, which led to a new career in finance, banking and finally Financial Planning. Great! I did OK but all along I never once 'bounced' out of bed looking forward to the day ahead. Pretty sad, huh? Then I had a crack. I got greedy and lost. BANG. Crash and burn. Then this.......
"La Chateau Tento, my new home for 3 yrs"
What a quick sick story. What's worse it's about me! I don't like sad stories and I'm not telling any more. I'm going to commit to telling good stories. And the only way to do that is to CREATE the stories and make them good. A great way to start a good story is to begin with a not so good story and then make it a whole lot betterer (erer!). A whole lot betterer(er). Well I've used the bad story so far to create a very solid foundation for THE good story. That's because I was soooo successful at making my BAD story so baaad. Hmmmmmm........... so saaad..... As a matter of fact I have made the story soooo BAD that the media gave it a whole lotta publicity and so now the media is also helping me create the GOOD story. Woohooo, it just keeps getting better....erer!
And that saying at the top "The journey is the reward" is spot on. In fact it isn't SJs quote, it is a Zen Buddhism saying. But how true that statement has proven to be. Now my mindset is where I was when I left school with one BIIIIG difference. Now I KNOW where I am going. Now I am doing what I WANT and NEED to do. Before I complete my next book I am making sure that my badly decomposed body is dancing! The book's not finished. My story isn't finished.
Keep watching me. I KNOW what is going to happen and I NEED you to see it happen. Then you will know. It's not a fairy tale. It's not a delusion of grandeur. It is very, very REAL and you are seeing the story unfold before your very eyes. When you see 'the GOOD story' I'm going to ask you about your story, your GOOD story. And you will be able to create YOUR good story in DotsHQ. Seriously. So............
......What IS stopping you ?.....
Huh ?......
And that saying at the top "The journey is the reward" is spot on. In fact it isn't SJs quote, it is a Zen Buddhism saying. But how true that statement has proven to be. Now my mindset is where I was when I left school with one BIIIIG difference. Now I KNOW where I am going. Now I am doing what I WANT and NEED to do. Before I complete my next book I am making sure that my badly decomposed body is dancing! The book's not finished. My story isn't finished.
Keep watching me. I KNOW what is going to happen and I NEED you to see it happen. Then you will know. It's not a fairy tale. It's not a delusion of grandeur. It is very, very REAL and you are seeing the story unfold before your very eyes. When you see 'the GOOD story' I'm going to ask you about your story, your GOOD story. And you will be able to create YOUR good story in DotsHQ. Seriously. So............
......What IS stopping you ?.....
Huh ?......
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