Tuesday 2 November 2010
Changing Fortunes From Spring to Winter
What a lot of water has passed under the bridge since my last post. It was late Winter , early Spring when I first sat down to describe my strong feelings about leaving permanent employment to take up semi-retirement and working online from home.
Since then I have moved home to a totally different part of the country; Bristol is nothing like the relatively calm and warm face of Coventry, it has a harsh and fast pace about it. The cars travel fast, always in a hurry and they dare you to hesitate on roundabouts. I'm teaching my wife to drive in this highly charged environment so we have already experienced the wrath of many drivers.
Our little boy of two years has also grown up since I quietly sat with time to think about that Fortune Formula. No time to think now, he's well into the 'terrible twos' and letting us know all about it. His latest positive challenge is to remember absolutely everything we say to each other. The negative issues are too many to count, although I suppose he has learned how to fall on his head with seriously injuring himself and how to survive not eating for a week or two at a time; how to manage a temperature so high the thermometer couldn't believe it and how to drive his parents to dispair without suffering more than a hug.
Our fortunes have indeed followed the formula and we are now monitoring and managing our latest investment that will deliver a handsome income in about twelve months from now. We intend buying a new house and home once it rings the magic money bell. On the way so far we have been able to help over twenty other people to jump aboard the fortune train but it's so difficult trying to help people. Most friends and family are so skeptical, not daring to believe that you can actually plan ongoing earnings from a number of websites. It's a though the whole world is virtual outside their own routine and experience - maybe that's a good definition of change.
As the seasons have rolled onwards and the weather has changed to keep us awake, we have managed to keep going to all the supermarkets and spend the fortune that we never had on the same old ready meals and train-loads of vegetables, chips and bottled water. What a sad record of healthy diets... now comes the bit about exercise!
This new lifestyle brings with it a very lazy kind of work. In fact it is not even work. I sit at my computer every day when I can get away from toddler tantrums, I enjoy 'working' but I actually don't move from one hour to the next. I'm sure my brain is enjoying the equivalent of a half marathon every day but my bottom reluctantly goes to sleep all week, every week.
Now the clocks have just gone back for winter I know I'm in a race for Christmas. Family birthdays, Christmas presents and shopping into the late , dark hours. The New Year will be bearing down on us before we can say Rudolf and all the wrapping paper will be filling the rubbish bins for weeks, to say nothing of the dreadful waste of food. Ah well, better recognise that time is sliding by and there's nothing I can do to prevent it. My only hope for appearing in control is to make more financial fortune plans and keep to them before the clocks Spring forward again.
Since then I have moved home to a totally different part of the country; Bristol is nothing like the relatively calm and warm face of Coventry, it has a harsh and fast pace about it. The cars travel fast, always in a hurry and they dare you to hesitate on roundabouts. I'm teaching my wife to drive in this highly charged environment so we have already experienced the wrath of many drivers.
Our little boy of two years has also grown up since I quietly sat with time to think about that Fortune Formula. No time to think now, he's well into the 'terrible twos' and letting us know all about it. His latest positive challenge is to remember absolutely everything we say to each other. The negative issues are too many to count, although I suppose he has learned how to fall on his head with seriously injuring himself and how to survive not eating for a week or two at a time; how to manage a temperature so high the thermometer couldn't believe it and how to drive his parents to dispair without suffering more than a hug.
Our fortunes have indeed followed the formula and we are now monitoring and managing our latest investment that will deliver a handsome income in about twelve months from now. We intend buying a new house and home once it rings the magic money bell. On the way so far we have been able to help over twenty other people to jump aboard the fortune train but it's so difficult trying to help people. Most friends and family are so skeptical, not daring to believe that you can actually plan ongoing earnings from a number of websites. It's a though the whole world is virtual outside their own routine and experience - maybe that's a good definition of change.
As the seasons have rolled onwards and the weather has changed to keep us awake, we have managed to keep going to all the supermarkets and spend the fortune that we never had on the same old ready meals and train-loads of vegetables, chips and bottled water. What a sad record of healthy diets... now comes the bit about exercise!
This new lifestyle brings with it a very lazy kind of work. In fact it is not even work. I sit at my computer every day when I can get away from toddler tantrums, I enjoy 'working' but I actually don't move from one hour to the next. I'm sure my brain is enjoying the equivalent of a half marathon every day but my bottom reluctantly goes to sleep all week, every week.
Now the clocks have just gone back for winter I know I'm in a race for Christmas. Family birthdays, Christmas presents and shopping into the late , dark hours. The New Year will be bearing down on us before we can say Rudolf and all the wrapping paper will be filling the rubbish bins for weeks, to say nothing of the dreadful waste of food. Ah well, better recognise that time is sliding by and there's nothing I can do to prevent it. My only hope for appearing in control is to make more financial fortune plans and keep to them before the clocks Spring forward again.
Wednesday 27 January 2010
Your Fortune Formula
Looking out of the window early on Monday morning, I gave a thought for those of you travelling up and down the motorways, rushing to get to work. Part of my concern was rooted in the dangers I had experienced doing the same thing every morning for years on end. My thoughts were reminding me of the often futile efforts made to ensure I was not a minute later than expected by myself and, of course, my boss. Yet nobody could predict the behaviour of that toxic blend of damp or misty weather and those tired drivers when in charge of killer cars weighing close on half a ton and travelling between 50-80 mph.
The rat-race of getting to work was one thing, the mixed emotions of challenge and unfairness, friendships (some out of adversity) and a strained work-life unbalance was another. Together, the ingredients of the mix made for an unlikely happiness for any sustained period of time. Most people wanted to find an alternative to the routine that determined, in an uncompromising way, their state of health and wealth plus that of their families too.
Understanding and 'feeling' the past is vital for planning the future. The need for change hits everyone at some time in their life, so a reminder of the good times as well as the bad can help you drive a balance for work and family life, wealth and lifestyle, having fun and learning new things. Some of us need praise, some need challenge and others are motivated by money alone. Yet a healthy mix of all of these can be the preferred recipe for many more. They crave fulfilment in the form of Flexible Hours, a Regular High Income, Social Interactivity, Family Time plus Good Health & Personal Safety i.e. (Fulfilment = FH + RHI + SI + FT + GH&PS).
This formula evades most of us only because it is rarely offered and planned out, interpreted and expressed to match or cater for individual situations. A simple explanation is needed to let people know what options they have and how to go about selecting the optimum way forward.
Individuals can and should decide for themselves what is best for their future. The time has come for a major uprooting of employment and financial constraints on the family unit. The chance to break free from employment control and conventional formalities around working time restrictions has come. The Internet and its associated technology can now present us with opportunities for learning anything and everything to fashion our lives as we choose. It is now possible and fast becoming commonplace to find people giving up their early morning rush on the motorway for a much safer and enjoyable cup of coffee and a seat at their computer in the back bedroom of their home.
From my office window, slightly open to allow a comfortable level of fresh air to circulate, I listen to the deep and continuous roar of motorway traffic 2 miles across the open fields. I smile as I imagine many more drivers in the next five years pulling off the motorway at Corley Services to relieve their frustration with a determination to plan their exit from that mad rush to work. Instead, they will join the new rush hour, a much more comfortable one; they will work from home and probably get embroiled in a different type of rush. The race is on to secure lucrative Internet Business traffic.
The rat-race of getting to work was one thing, the mixed emotions of challenge and unfairness, friendships (some out of adversity) and a strained work-life unbalance was another. Together, the ingredients of the mix made for an unlikely happiness for any sustained period of time. Most people wanted to find an alternative to the routine that determined, in an uncompromising way, their state of health and wealth plus that of their families too.
Understanding and 'feeling' the past is vital for planning the future. The need for change hits everyone at some time in their life, so a reminder of the good times as well as the bad can help you drive a balance for work and family life, wealth and lifestyle, having fun and learning new things. Some of us need praise, some need challenge and others are motivated by money alone. Yet a healthy mix of all of these can be the preferred recipe for many more. They crave fulfilment in the form of Flexible Hours, a Regular High Income, Social Interactivity, Family Time plus Good Health & Personal Safety i.e. (Fulfilment = FH + RHI + SI + FT + GH&PS).
This formula evades most of us only because it is rarely offered and planned out, interpreted and expressed to match or cater for individual situations. A simple explanation is needed to let people know what options they have and how to go about selecting the optimum way forward.
Individuals can and should decide for themselves what is best for their future. The time has come for a major uprooting of employment and financial constraints on the family unit. The chance to break free from employment control and conventional formalities around working time restrictions has come. The Internet and its associated technology can now present us with opportunities for learning anything and everything to fashion our lives as we choose. It is now possible and fast becoming commonplace to find people giving up their early morning rush on the motorway for a much safer and enjoyable cup of coffee and a seat at their computer in the back bedroom of their home.
From my office window, slightly open to allow a comfortable level of fresh air to circulate, I listen to the deep and continuous roar of motorway traffic 2 miles across the open fields. I smile as I imagine many more drivers in the next five years pulling off the motorway at Corley Services to relieve their frustration with a determination to plan their exit from that mad rush to work. Instead, they will join the new rush hour, a much more comfortable one; they will work from home and probably get embroiled in a different type of rush. The race is on to secure lucrative Internet Business traffic.
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