When the year 2007 graced us with its presence, a friend and I came up with this short phrase “2007 is going to be the year”. Both of us were in painful relationships, where we were getting far too hurt, and both of us knew that we had the ability to do something amazing, but we were being held back. The questions were: What was holding us back, was it infact ourselves, was it our resources, or was it the people we knew? So many different aspects to consider, and quite frankly, not enough time to sit around and consider them all.
I, personally, took this “2007 is going to be the year” phrase and started to stop saying it, and rather make it. What’s the point of saying something, but not building a reason for saying it? Not too long ago, I read a quote along the lines of: “Having a great idea is fantastic, but having a great idea with a date to commence the idea leads to success”, and this saying could not have been any more motivational for me. So coupling our saying with the quote, I decided that it was time to start initiating things, rather than waiting.
My first goal was to get a salaried job, not just any job, but a job which would pay me correctly for my experience, and that would allow me to get some industry exposure, as I felt that running my own company needed to take a back seat for a while until I was more experienced. After a week has passed, I had 3 interviews lined up, of which each company called me back and asked me to come work for them – believe it or not, I turned all three down. I had a short lists of requirements that I wanted from the companies too. I wanted to work with friendly, dynamic and experienced staff, I wanted a salary of 5 digits (after tax), and I wanted it to be close to home (I don’t like 7am in the morning). Anyway, a few more weeks went by, and I went to a couple other interviews, and to cut a long story short, I started working for a fantastic company, which ticked off 7 of my 9 requirements, which seemed good enough to me. Right, so that was my first step towards giving “2007 is going to be the year” some substance.
Something else I wanted to do this year was meet a couple people, who were interested in business and the Internet, like I am, and I have reached this goal too. The people I have met, which will remain unnamed, are absolutely amazing, and some of the most intelligent people I could have ever dreamed of working with.
There were a couple other things I wanted to achieve, and there are a couple I still want to achieve, but thus far, I feel that I have gone from strength to strength in less time than I could have ever imagined.
I feel like I am writing a motivational speak, after reading over what I have written thus far, haha, but it’s all the truth, and it’s something I have wanted to write about for a long time. I could carry on writing this article for another several hours, but I feel for my readers, who wants to sit for half an hour reading a blog post? Not me!
One of the only goals I have left to achieve for this year, is to work on something, with someone or a group, which is so out of this world stimulating and motivating. The title “Burst my bubble”, had two parts to it, firstly that my initial bubble was burst, but now I have reached a second bubble which needs to be burst – I want to open my mind, spread my wings, and sore in the wind amogst amazing people, and release a website/product/service which is just perfect. I burst the first bubble, I will burst the second one!
Motivate. Set a date. Act. Enjoy.
wine-i, wine-i, wine-i
lmao, put that bottle down already! :P~
which one eksê? there’s SO many… or is that my eyes playing tricks on me again?
Muhahahhaha! I’ve got about 4-5 shots left of Jack, then I’m dry and unhappy :(
excuse my french..but… ETTER!!! that’s NOT on!!! Well… your always welcome to pop by this side. I’ve the late bottled vintage port left, about half a JD and a bottle of Red 69 I bought a few days ago. But that’s a ROF one if you know what I mean. But then again… Having said that, after we polish polish the first two we’d probably knock in the last just to round the night off.
Well bro, I’m flying over to the UK I’d imagine in the next couple of weeks, so perhaps I could get a little time to pop on over to Dublin for a visit! ekse! Imagine you hear your doorbell ring, and I’m standing at the door, with a lekker bottle of JD!
One time!!!! I hope it’s a LT bottle though! Cause a 70cl only lasts about half an hour. You have your flight details yet? Cause you DEFO have to drop over to mine! We can go get slaughtered one night in Dublin and try find our way back home! LOL
I don’t have all the details yet, but I’ve been informed that my application for British Passport has been approved, so the minute that arrives, I’d imagine I’m being shipped off hey!
Slaughtered in Dublin = wicked!
Jou MA!!! With your british passport!! Lucky bastard. So just to get the lingo right so long.. We’ll get slaughtered at my gaf, get buckled in Dublin and finish it off by get totally hammered followed by getting shitface *language please* at my house. Oh yeah… and puking takes place outdoor btw. :P
Haha, poor Erika, what will she say bud?
Nah, but for real, I really would dig to come over and have a massive night with you there. I feel that my time to explore the world has started to arrive, and what better than to do it in Dublin with a good mate!
We can take your larny car for a ride!
LOL. I wish I had a larny car. Gone is my astra girl. You know yourself…know it’s a fa-da-milie car. But nevertheless we go do some exploration in it. It just wont have a induction kits, bodykit and all the little nifty toys a bou racer car should have. Not to mention about 1600W of pure sound blowing into your eardrums! But consider it a done deal. Just let me know asap when you have flight details and such so I can see how I can work around getting staff to cover me.
Ye bro, I’ll definitely keep you updated hey! I’m guna hit the deck now, absolutely exhausted, and have a massive day of meetings and all sorts tomorrow.
Wicked to chat again!
Grand job! Have a good night rest! Wicked chat yeah! WAY overdue!
Ya bud, sheesh, it’s been basically 2 months since we had a good chat!
I have a bottle of Wild Turkey if ya want it.
I don’t drink enough.
I’ve never been drunk.
As for bursting your bubble…. I’ll have to think about that one.
Wild Turkey, hehe, I wouldn’t mind a stiff drink now and a couple more hours of sleep to be honest! ;)
Ye, need to burst that bubble! hehe