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Firewalker

Marru wrote: »

OMG - I just had to buy it. :j

Maru, is it fun? Also, how are you getting on with the decluttering?

FW

Firewalker

As you have guessed I am back home safe - my attempted suicide by eating obsene amounts of great food failed but getting my trousers closed is getting more and more hard. Yesterday, just before we left, the weather turned and it was wonderfully bright and sunny. Managed to take couple of pictures of the lake for OH.

I managed to get to meditation last night - it fells so good. I will make it a part of my daily routine. During meditation (and yes, I am aware that part of it is to control our thought but...) I was thinking that I'll start experimenting with the following:

1) Improve my effectiveness (having a hard look at whether I am doing the things I need to do if I were to get to a certain state in life;
2) To do this I will really have to be honest and clear about what I want, where I want to be in different life areas (this is a hard one because most of us today live with most of the time with a fear that we are missing out on something). Need to find/adapt/design an exercise is my feeling.
3) Improve effciency - do faster and better the things I have to do (or some of them at any rate).
4) Deal with exisitng dream and only after that generate new ones - continuous dreaming can lead to only dreaming.

Right - now I have to get on.

Firewalker

Marru

Firewalker wrote: »

Maru, is it fun? Also, how are you getting on with the decluttering?

FW

I haven't got it yet, will let you know when it arrives.

And decluttering has to wait until after exams. Except I didn't spend last night studying, I was too busy to look for houses, jobs, schools...

Firewalker

You probably have guessed that I have not been feeling right lately. Which is strage because my life appears fine - as I say 'all my lines are going the right way'. What does this mean?

Our negative wealth is going down;
Our net wealth is going up;
My productivity as an academic writer is going up;
My productivity as a blogger is going up;

Mentioning the blog:

Visits are going up;
Alexa ranking is going up (improved by 100,000 in ten days and thank you to the ones here who read over there; main thing is people start finding the blog useful and entertaining)
Time on site - high for a blog and going up;
Bounce rate - low for a blog and going down;

Mentions on Twitter - going up;
Internet newspapers picking up my posts - going up (well, I know this is still small number but...)
Followers on Twitter - steadily increasing.

Why am I feeling so carp then? Could this be my already notorious impatience - I want something and I want it now? As in 'we have paid off close to £65,000 of the negative wealth but I am not content - I wanted all gone and I want it gone now'.

Arggggg!

World domination is for the ones who have: the patience to wait for opportunities; the determination to prepare for opportunities; and the courage to grab these opportunities when they arise.

Firewalker

elantan

how do you expect to feel once you have achieved all of these things ?

Firewalker

El, do you mean how would I feel once our negative wealth is paid off; our mortgage is paid off; we have substantial (liquid) wealth; my blog is amongst the top 100 in the world; I am on top of my game academically; have written an academic and non-academic bets-sellers etc.?

Well, I'll feel empty, I suppose. All this work:rotfl:!

Seriously, I think that it is not so much where I wish to be but how I feel whist getting there. And the fact is that this sabbatical lark is very lonely; no beehive to share ideas with; nothing to blame but oneself. Much of the issues I am dealing with can be offset by clever socialising - I just have been keeping so busy...but...

I am moving to being productive!

FW

Firewalker

Media City! Now isn't this something. Walking around it today I had the feeling that I am at the sea fron in Oslo - modernist buildings bathed in sunshine; the water calmly flowing under impressive bridges; people rowing, walking about...Magic.

The best part was that there were to open days showcasing the work of one of the local universities and the BBC. Impressive work! The world of media is so interesting, it draws one into a constructed reality. A 'never, never land' for geeks, I suppose.

We had wonderful time. It was not bad MSE wise either - all activities were free and the snacks were so cheap I thought there had been a mistake.

Firewalker

Firewalker

Interesting! I woke up at 3.30 (entirely my fault for not silencing my phone and becoming popular on Twitter) and started working. Went on my blog and it said: Go to bed, FW! No kidding!

Do you think I am going mad or that technology is really getting so good.

Firewalker

gilligansyle

So did you go to bed? I doubt that very much.

Firewalker

Gilli, absolutely correct - I didn't. Just mention it as a curiosity. However, the plan for today is: go to the GP (casual check related to my time in life); go to gym (nothing casual about this one); go to bed (rather exceptional actually).

FW