Tue, 10 Jun 2008
Gavin is an upbeat enthusiastic lad and will do well with any thing he chooses to do.
V. Myers
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08:18:00
Mon, 09 Jun 2008
Ich bin ein Berliner!
Apparently, a 'Berliner' is a type of doughnut, but I don't think JFK was actually trying to tell everyone he was a jam-filled pastry.
Anyway, sugary politics aside; we had good news from Berlin the other day! One of our distributors over there will be selling large amounts of Chooba to party-goers at a massive Summer event in Berlin.
Fabian will be going over there to oversee things ... I'm sure he'll come back with loads of feedback and stories which will be great! I'll be sure to post more about it (with photos) on here.
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14:02:00
Wed, 28 May 2008
Who'd have Thunk it?
Last night, I was privileged enough to be invited to a focus dinner with Tarek Nseir from Th_nk.
Tarek is an amazing guy with so much great advice. Refreshingly, he doesn't just fluff about dropping 'bullshit bingo' style keywords every now and again. He talks with confidence about his experiences (both good and bad), in a positive way, and you know it's backed up with real knowledge.
Something he said really resonated with me last night - something which I realise I actually do anyway, but never knew it until he pointed it out - he said, "Always project yourself as you want to be in six months. Show people you can deliver, and it will happen."
The evening was great - very motivating - and I hope to meet Tarek again sometime. The food was good too :-)
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09:59:00
Tue, 27 May 2008
The value of time
I didn’t write this, but I would like to share it…
Imagine for a minute that your bank credits your account each morning with £86,400.
It doesn’t carry over a balance however. Every evening your bank deletes whatever part of the balance you never used during the day.
What would you do?
I imagine you would try and spend as much as you could, possibly draw out every penny!
Every one of us has a bank account like this, but it’s not money we’re dealing with - it’s something much more valuable, it’s time.
Every morning, this ‘time bank account’ credits you with 86,400 seconds.
Every night it writes off, completely, whatever of this amount you have failed to invest to good purpose.
No balance is ever carried over, ever, and you’re allowed no overdraft.
If you fail to use your day’s allowance, the loss is yours. There is no going back. There is no spending against the tomorrow.
You must live in the present on today’s funds. Invest it, so as to get from it the utmost in health, happiness, and success!
The clock is ticking. Make the most of today.
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10:54:00
Fri, 23 May 2008
PROGRES5IVE
I would just like to say a big, massive, thank you to everyone at the EF for putting on such an amazing day and night yesterday!! I had a fantastic time, learned a lot, met some brilliant people and found the whole day very inspiring indeed.
Thank you for giving me the opportunity to attend!
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13:31:00
Tue, 20 May 2008
Making regression a bit more interactive
I was having a chat to my Mum and we were talking about regression. She was telling me how she had regresed a friend of hers the other day (she's a clinical hypnotherapist).
She explained how this guy was talking in great detail about his childhood, not in a vague and generic sense, “When I was 5…” type way; but in a more specific sense. He was clearly saying “I am at a school disco, the song playing is X, I feel like Y, and I’m going to do Z soon.” - he was apparently relaying all this in a very excited and innocent way. Very unlike his normal persona, which is quite serious.
Now whether the whole idea of hypnotherapy is absolutely wonderful and great and really works, or is a complete load of horse shit doesn’t matter. It got me thinking about the fact that he actually felt like he was there, at that time and was experiencing all the feelings and emotions he felt on that day in his life.
That made me wonder whether I was, now, actually 65 years old and laid on a hypnotherapist’s couch somewhere, being regressed. Everything I am experiencing now are detailed memories of my past.
Sounds like that drug and alcohol-induced crap that someone always comes out with whilst sat starring at the stars doesn’t it!
But whilst I realise that’s not actually true, it does bring about some interesting things to think about: let’s say that it was true and that I was actually being regressed right now. This 65 year old man is being asked what he’s doing right now, where he is, how he feels to be this age again (I’m 30 by the way), and what this man’s aspirations and dreams are.
It started me imagining all of this, and it prompted the question which would inevitably come about in such a situation: “What did you want to be back then?”
Then you are woken up and the person doing the regression says something along the lines of “So you wanted to be X huh? Oh well, we can’t all be everything we wanted to be.”
Shit. I wish this whole regression malarkey was a little more interactive; I wish that I could actually do something about the situations back then, to change my life the way it is now.
That’s my point. I can, and I’m going to. I am actually that 65 year old man right now, sat in a chair in some hypnotherapist’s house, being regressed. I’m relaying things back to him all the time, but this time it’s interactive. I can change things, move things about, tweak situations just the way I want them to be, so that when I wake up from the session I am in a better place, and in a situation I really wanted to be all those years ago. I’m going to start my interactive regression session right now!
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18:22:00
Tue, 20 May 2008
I didn't know I could play with this...
Or I did know, but didn't want to break it :-)
So here's my first post on my new blog for the IWCYC Challenge ... I had an interesting day yesterday, I went down to the BBC studios in Manchester for an audition for Dragon's Den - yep that Dragon's Den.
Scared as hell I was. Even though I wasn't in front of the Dragon's themselves (just the producer), it was quite un-nerving and I had to do three takes to get the pitch right for the head producer to watch. I nailed it in the end though, and will hear from the DD team tomorrow (Wednesday) as to whether or not we've got Chooba on the Den. Exciting stuff eh!
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