Life coaching from the most unlikely life coach..
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“A righteous infliction of positive suggestions manifested by an appropriate agent. Personified in this case by a pretty normal fella… me”
I was thinking as I was just driving through town, have you ever wished that you could go back through time (to say when you were even more young and foolish) and give yourself a pep talk?
Sort of sit yourself down with the benefit of hindsight and say “look son, you’re gonna do some crazy stuff, and do this .. and it’ll pay off, don’t bother with this, do more of this, steer clear of …. he/she’s a wrong ‘un” type stuff. Well I was trying to think, if I were to go back to the beginning of the year what I would advise in order to bring a sense of inner harmony and general peace and calm to daily life. All together now …. Ohhhhhm.
Here’s my top 7, a perfect harmonious number between 10 and 5 – also because I couldn’t think of another 3.
Eat a pomegranate every day – Surely this is the fruit of the Gods. I never discovered these things until I was 30, which probably goes some way to explaining why I think they’re such good fruit, but essentially they tick all the boxes – they’re fruity, crunchy and kind of explode in your mouth with a taste sensation of sweetness. Apparently they’re also extremely good for you, and will proper “sort you aaaaaht” (as Bricktop would say). (At the peak of my pomegranate addiction I’ve consumed 2 a day, which isn’t a massive number but they are £1.50 each and can be eaten in under 1 min).- Recycle your Christmas Tree – When I say recycle, I don’t mean leave it outside for the council like a discarded sticky tissue. Do something with it, after Xmas, the one in the living room looked like it was about to cark it, but I think through some gentle TLC, love, care and consideration it’s decided it’s agreed it won’t die on us and in return we’ll redecorate it with varying themes throughout the year. An Easter Tree, Summer Tree, Daylight Saving Tree.. etc.
Buy a pet fish – I always say to people that I work with, you won’t realise how much of a difference owning a fish will make to your life until you get one. It’s little things, like realising that they’ll follow you around the living room, or be waiting at one end of the tank when you get up to be fed, or come and sit at the other side to see what’s going on when you’re watching telly. Or realising how different they all are in terms of personality, not to mention feeding them…they will repay you 1000 times over with their playful splashing as the puppies of the water.- Take time out from each day to make someone else’s – Admittedly not all days lend themselves to this kind of activity, but if you can – take a few minutes out to put a smile on someone’s face through something unexpected, your legacy isn’t always physical.
Snatch back time from your downtime – I’ve taken to replying to text messages and emails on the tube, it’s not always easy to type on an iPhone and people do have a habit of reading over your shoulder, but if it’s a choice of that or reading about a dog that can do backflips while eating wotsits through hoops of fire in the Metro then I’d rather try and keep in touch with people, something I’m notoriously bad at.- Rediscover something you used to love doing -Thanks to Chris for the loan of his 1210s, I’ m now rinsing a whole host of quality vinyl from back in the day. I guess this is a bit like Kellogs Cornflakes in terms of “have you forgotten how good they taste”, and damn they taste good.
- Discover a new tune/band/producer regularly -Hit Spotify, Youtube, Juno Downloads and find stuff by producers you like. For me there’s few things more satisfying than finding 3 or 4 good new tunes that I’ll want to listen to on repeat until I can’t stand them any more (ok that’s not strictly true).
Diverted Traffic
Aside from my musings the 2010 Millionaire project is about to go into overdrive in the next few days. I can’t reveal too much at the moment but I’m extremely excited.
I realise that in terms of hardcore moneymaking substance I’m also now at the end of another month so need to do my monthly accounting, which looks mysteriously like last month’s accounting, except slightly more negative.
Monthly Accounting
End of Month Accounting
- Expenses ~ £80
- Income ~ £0
- Money left to make in 2010 – £1,000,080 ( ~£100k a month)
Today’s image is totally unrelated to today’s post – just a test shot from in & around Soho from way back in 2008. Was the first time had headed out with the 5d mk2.
Loving this – Shot Caller (Matrix & Futurebound Remix)
thebiggestjimmy
In the words of the great Bob Dorough, De La Soul, the Jelly Dots… countless other dudes (I admit I don’t know who came first, the song or the band, but I suspect if we cracked open the egg of the number three we would discover a band named chicken) 3 is a magic number!
So for what it’s worth and because I am feeling particularly valid this moment I’d like to add three (or 8, but I’m calling it three because three are missing off ten and that makes sense to me). This one’s for all the ladies out there.
3. Drop the Judgement. Do it and don’t endlessly analyse yourself for doing it. Aldous Huxley (who I’ve just discovered via a random purchase in the Amnesty book store) has all sorts of pearls of wisdom that have unexpectedly helped me through the day, all of which seem unrelated now I’m trying to make a point. But the point I’m trying to make, it’s easy to aim for the stars in hope of reaching the moon. Then you realise the moon is actually quite a distance away and it might be worth just aiming for the moon, because getting there is well and truly ambitious. Before you know it you’ve got a schematic detailing how to get to the moon, a Gantt chart with the how, why and when of the journey and a list as long as your arm of things to do, which somehow transgresses the original plan and takes a leap into the murky pool of self development, ultimately leading to infinite chaos. Chill out. Listen to Paolo Nutini. Drink fortified wine and post an overly long comment on someone else’s blog. Oh yeah, and do it. Chances are in an ideal world you would have anyway, so drop the judgement.