This weekend I had to finsih some comissioned writing, and I did. Admitedly the last couple of sentences were written this morning but it is now out of the way. I do have some more writing but it is nowhere near as much and it is in a format I am more familair with so shouldn’t be as difficult

The weekend was also good as Saturday morning was fairly relaxed. Went down the high street and supported the market and other local traders. The sun was out and it was a really nice morning. The afternoon was spent writing.

Sunday, my parents visited and I also watched the Grand Prix, untill the rain came down. Then watched the UTD game on TV, when we found a new hero. A tense finish to game that has perhaps added a new twist to the season

Still now i have a bit more space I can get back to the music and other arty things, developing the websites I was working and generally sorting things out. Wordl domination is around the corner… perhaps

The last few days, in fact the last few weeks have been pretty nice, sunny days. In that time we’ve taken a walk from Lulworth Cove to Durdle Dor, which was really nice. I should get some photos up of it soon.

Life hasn’t been stress free and I’ve been suffering with anxiety a little. Leading to a lack of sleep and a few chest pains and headaches, but nothing too bad. I went to the doctor to check things out and he basically gave me the list of to tey and relax and do some exercise. He also did a blood test.

The blood test results came back and I was called back to see the doctor. The result is that i have a high cholesterol level and he is pretty concerned about it. So the to add to the relaxation and exercise, I now have to watch my diet (not that I was too bad before, but there were several lapses) and cut down on the vino (now there is a challenge).

So that is the recent news, but to round of this eloquent piece literature, today the sun has gone. It has decided to hide behind a sky of grey. I hope it returns soon.

wonders who turned off the sun in Milton Keynes

has a next action list that fits above the fold, I’m obviously missing something

knows when to stop typing, when he waffles more than normal

Now the first one worked pretty well, in fact one might say with total success. But there are one or two things that I am now trying to iron out
For instance what tags do and don’t work with which platform. This test post is currently going to at least five places.

So the testing continues and this post may mean nothing but a pile of pants to anyone reading it. But I know what I am testing

I decided to change the theme for the site. It is all part of the grand plan to organise things. Part of which is to decide what to post and where. I have way too many places where I am active, or semi-active.

But, this is a place where I will be posting as part of the new plan (where have I heard that before). And I will be detailing how I manage, or not manage, to be creative. The main output of that creativity will be available at www.entropicon.com and it’s filter sites.

I got some money from family on my birthday. Just enough to get myself a nice simple Nikon digital camera. Nothing too flash but just what I needed to take some pictures. The other camera I had was an old Kodak, which was good, but was only a 2mp camera and was the size of a breeze block. I also have my mobile phone camera too, but again that is only a 2mp one, but handy to have on me.

Now I have no excuses to slack on my other photo related ‘things’

See more progress on: Buy a new digital camera

Okay, well I have note been around here for a while. I wish it was because I had been busy, and although that has something to with it, that isn’t the only reason. But this isn’t a personal journal in that sense, so you’ll have to find me elsewhere to find out about that.

What I have been doing recently is reading Tim Ferris’ The 4-Hour Work Week. Now while I have a few reservations about the way he presents himself in the book, there are certainly one or two things that have got me thinking. The first, and what this post is about, is his questioning of the term, ‘what are your goals?’

His reasoning points out that when you achieve your goal, you say you are happy. But happiness can also come out of a wine bottle, so why go through the hassle of achieving the goal. He encourages you to ask, not what do I want, or what are my goals, but what would excite me.

With this in mind I have been re-evaluating my goal list. Or more accurately, the measurement of success of those goals. So often these measurements are based on numbers and facts, but I am taking a look at them in terms of excitement.

A simple example is my ‘record an album’ goal. Why would i want to do that… to say that i have done it? To be able to sell a few copies? To share my art with other people? Well actually, it is because writing, recording and performing music is what I enjoy, what makes me happy… what excites me. Therefore the goal may need a little bit if restructuring… off I go.

Well here we are in June already. Goals wise I actually made inroads into my May goals and I’m literally just tidying up a few of the loose ends with regard to the productivity goal. When that is done the goal will be complete.

I am working hard at losing some weight, but so far I haven’t managed to hit my target so i’ll be carrying that over.

I started to take notes on my commissioned writing but must confess I haven’t made too many.

I am having fun with the website aims and objectives and that is giving me quite a lot of clarity and focus in direction. I’ll begin to add some of the sites on here soon, but in the meantime all I can say is that they are very interesting to me.

I am aware that my music goal has slipped a little so will be getting that back on trach during June. Those goals will be on here soon to keep me motovated.