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An Early Christmas?
Posted by: | CommentsWell, again I start my post saying that it’s been a long while since I’ve posted! Perhaps I will stop saying that I will post often as it doesn’t really happen! Things have been busy as usual and especially during this time of year with the build up to Christmas.
Well, the first thing is that Fireworks night was great fun. We went to the Blackheath fireworks which is said to be one of the largest displays in London, if not the largest. It was amazing and there were several cool ones in particular. One that sticks to mind is a firework that exploded into a heart shape! Amazing, no idea how they managed to do it but it was impressive. Judging by the ‘oohs’ and ‘ahhs’ I wasn’t the only one impressed by them.
No sooner was fireworks night over, it seems like Christmas has been thrust upon us. It seems much too early for it and in no way does it really feel like Christmas. It’s far too warm and not cold enough! Walking around town, all the lights are already up in Regent Street and many stores are preparing for what I guess they will hope will be a busy trading period. A tell-tale sign of the impending festive season is the fact that Starbucks have started to use their red crimbo-themed cups!
Anyway, work has been very busy for some reason and there is little breathing room. I have also found a business partner for a new venture that I’m very excited about. Its for a realtively new product and the industry is certainly very young. I will post more as things develop but developments are going well.
Very soon, my wife and I will be celebrating our first English wedding anniversary (6th December) and we are both quite excited and cannot believe that a year has passed in what seems to be such a short space of time. In hindsight and on reflecting on the things that have occured over the past year, we have managed to fit a lot of stuff in and from talking to family and those close to us, next year will mean that 2010 will potentially be an even bigger year.
On the spiritual side of things, there has not been too much occuring apart from me re-reading ‘Conversations with God Book 3′ and its a great read, even second time round. This has been sporadic as it is also competing with me reading the latest Dan Brown novel ‘The Lost Symbol’ which is based on Freemasonery. One thing that I do love and that is a good conspiracy theory! It’s quite a book and with the ‘Davinci Code’, I’m really quite impressed with Dans story telling. I love the way that he weaves some fact with fiction so it becomes quite blurred. It’s all quite clever really.
Another development is that my wife has decided that she wants to become a promary school teacher and has applied on a course. This is quite a big decision and will change our plans completely for 2010. It’s not a bad thing and I really hope that she gains a place on the course that she has applied to. It will mean that we have to have a rethink of some of the plans that we had planned out. It’s all good.
The other news is that my broken collar bone is pretty much fully healed and I can feel that my shoulder is getting stronger all the time, especially if I get off my backside and do some exercises for it. I’m really looking forwards to getting stuck into the Adventure Racing season in 2010 and we already have our first one planned for March.
Yep, it’s going to be a busy year but there still 2009 left to complete and there’s plenty to do, at the very least, making time to see friends that I haven’t had time to catch up with before Christmas!
Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff
Posted by: | CommentsWell, it’s been one of those weeks for me, one where I dwell and dream about our future plans and all that we are striving for but one in which I cannot see the path. This has been getting me down and stressing me out and it’s all me that is creating it and I know it.
I’ve tried various things to get myself out of this state but found it difficult. Only today I have started to read one of my old spiritual books which I really got a lot out of. “Conversations with God – Book 3″ by Neale Donald Walsch has been a great book for me and given me many insights that has brought clarity and gave me a sense of peace when I first read it a year or two ago.
Today I started reading it again on the way to work and have found after a short way into it that I am starting to remember the purpose of life as I believe it and one which I have forgotten. In other words, I’m starting to get out of my own made drama and and regaining a good and healthy perspective. It’s realigned some of my thoughts which have kept my mind quite clear and focused.
I guess one other event that has contributed to all of this is the one year anniversary of the death of my dad this weekend. We had a little ceremony with my family and it gave me time to reflect and remind myself of the promises and determination I had at time of his death that time is short and that I just need to go and do the stuff that I want in life and not to sweat the small stuff. Even things like jobs, mortgages, all of these things to me are some of the ’small’ stuff in life and not things that are really that important in the scheme of things.
When I think about what is important in life, it basically boils down to family and experiences. Family is very important and though they can be frustrating at times, they will always be there for you. Experiences are the core for me. There is so much to life that it’s a shame to just stay in a small place and see only the most superficial aspects of it. My wife and I are planning on doing some travelling and experiencing more of this World that we live in. We also haven’t planned how we are going to achieve a lot of the stuff that we desire in our lives as we are trusting in the process.
The key thing for me is to keep some decent level of perspective and don’t sweat the small stuff, at the end of the day, if you lost everything like your job, house, car etc, what will you be left with?