Hey my friends,
I hope that you are all well. It feels like ages since I wrote a new post. I have spent what seems like an eternity moving all my old posts from Blogger to here and building this site. I have got to be honest when I say that it has been bloody boring. I hate monotonous tasks and despise technical jobs. I just love to get on with things and leave those jobs to someone else.
Now don't get me wrong, I am not above doing menial or technical work it's just that I have quite a low attention span for menial labour and I get frustrated with technical tasks, so I don't see the point of beating myself up and being miserable when I don't have to. When I was a younger man I spent years doing back breaking labouring jobs for little pay and long days and I hated every minute of it. I got on with it though as I needed the cash and wasn't skilled in anything else.
Who would have known all those years ago that I would now be spending all my days sat on my arse typing and talking on the telephone. Well not me. I presumed that my future was all mapped out for me, I thought that I was doomed to be miserable, with nothing to look forward to and it would remain so to the day I died.
Life can take you by surprise and shake you to your very core on any given day. In the case of luck and fortune it is often little to do with brains and skill but more to with luck, timing and who you know. Now I know that there will be those that say I am talking garbage and that I am sending out the wrong message, well, If I am then I am sorry but I can only be honest.
Being bright and grafting will obviously help in your pursuit of wealth and success. I just believe that sometimes you need more than that. Again, there will be those that say that you make your own luck in this world and there is no such thing as luck, and to those people I would say - You are talking nonsense! There are times when much more than being bright and grafting is needed. There are times when you stumble with no intention or foresight in to opportunities. You can call these instances fate or luck but what you cannot do is say that they are all part of your genius plan. I am trying really hard not to endorse laziness. I am just saying that brains and hard work do not always give you what you deserve.
This by the way is true for me. Everything that I have done since those early unhappy days has led me here now. Some of my experiences were planned but many more were not. I do not think that I was gifted in the brains department for example and all my grafting and long days didn't really help me significantly or bear much fruition. I believe my success was down to luck in part.
You have relationships where you have chance meetings with people. You at the last minute change your plan because of an unexplainable instinct to do something else. You read an article or watch a programme that captivates you so dramatically that you stop what you are doing immediately, Events like these catch you in a strangle hold that is impossible to escape from. You cannot undo what you have just seen or read, you cannot un-meet someone, there is no going back. All these things and more happened to me, like I am sure they happened to many before and will happen to many after.
I suppose what I am trying to say is that, and I am not quite sure how I ended up here as I only intended to say hi is that sometimes the hand that you have been dealt can change. This can change with your consent or without it. Just enjoy the ride and see where you end up.