Peace...

I went for an early morning swim at the lagoon on the Cairns Esplanade then followed this with coffee, sitting on the wall watching the tide come in. It was overcast, humid but peaceful. So bloody peaceful. I thought once more how much my life has changed since I packed up everything I owned, chucked in my job and headed off to a new life. There is a measure of peace I hadn't ever imagined I would have. I owe nothing to no one and I answer only to myself. That’s priceless.

People are always moaning about how they’re "not lucky" and that others are. I say bollocks. Luck and peace is yours if you have the guts to take a chance. Stop whining. Start taking chances. You’re in charge of your own destiny. Get out there and take the risk.

This self publishing gig...

…reminds me of when I was an army brat and I was the new kid at school and I always knew no one and nothing much but I managed to work it out through sheer persistence because there was no alternative. Those who are self publishing or who have set up sites like Scarlet Harlot Publishing – a constant work in progress – know exactly what I mean. It’s about breaking through barriers and hard work but damn when a reader take a punt on you and buys your books? Priceless. Thank you.

The Geebung gift...

I was reading something on facebook last night that reminded me once more the best thing I ever did was to work at a place that was filled with incompetent, miserable, backbiting people with no vision or imagination. Without them I would never have taken the dramatic leap and moved my life from all that was familiar and safe to another city. Thanks Geebung.

Chances are...

“I feel very adventurous. There are so many doors to be opened, and I'm not afraid to look behind them.” ~ Elizabeth Taylor

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Yeah, why didn’t I?

I’ve been thinking a lot about what someone said to me the other day – “why didn’t you do…..” I wanted to at the time. I really, really wanted to. But I stopped and I havered and thought ‘yeah but what will they think if I do?’ Which is weird for me as I tend to rush into things bull-at-a-gate and rarely do I give a rat’s arse about what someone else thinks. But, suddenly, I have another person on my list of people’s opinions that matter to me and I’m trying to act less like my irrational self. Or maybe I’m acting more like my true myself. I don’t know. Maybe some people are meant to scare you in a good way – to make you change and force you to look at things. I dunno. I do know next time I will do exactly what I planned…and more. Look out.

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So what the hell...

…I decided to throw caution to the wind and take a slightly different track in my life. An experiment, if you will. If it pans out – I’ll tell you. If it doesn’t – then I’ll probably still tell you. It’s not like failure can kill you.

So why this leap of faith into a new and unknown realm? It was a WTF moment in the middle of a ‘well hell, I can do that' session. So I took a punt and tackled a project and now I await the results. I’m in two minds about it. If it succeeds then it will be more work for me. If I fall on my arse well, that’s okay – it’s not like I haven’t done that before. So, stayed tuned.

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