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From the original idea of leaving the 9 to 5 behind, Leave The Office has taken quite a winding road to the point at which it finds itself now. A little lost perhaps, not sure of what it is or what service it is to provide to it’s readers. Not that I am too concerned by that, but how do the people who land here view it?

I would like to know. I don’t know whether I want this to be more focused on travel, enlightenment, inspiration or all of the above. I will gladly accept any comments on the matter. What with me getting excited about my trip to Asia, which is getting closer I suppose I’ll be happy for it to be a travel orientated blog whilst I am actually travelling.

Whilst the subject of this blog is Leave The Office I don’t really want to make it just about escaping the world because that sounds to me like I would be negating the lifestyles of many good people and besides, I don’t resent the corporate world or whatever word you want to use to label it. I suppose my thoughts on leaving the office have grown from a natural desire to pursue a lifestyle, which happens to be away from working in an office, not because of the office at all, but because I know what I want to do with my time.

Oh as a digression, by the way, it is only recently that I got crystal clear about what my heart’s desire is in life. The irony is that on further reflection I had known this about 15 years ago and I had even started to pursue the career and lifestyle that I felt I was destined to do. It didn’t work out the way I planned and it was like I had forgotten all about it and believed I was destined for something that doesn’t really inspire me. How crazy is that?

Anyway it is the relationship we have with our work which determines how we value our everyday and if you don’t consider your work life and your “personal” life to be totally separate from each other then I suppose it is fair to say that in some way you have succeeding in leaving the office because you don’t have the outlook of spending half your life living in a situation you don’t want to live in, or said another way only living half a life. In this regard I believe I have left the office myself already, which is probably why I have a smile on my face when I am travelling to work most of the time.

I want to say a few words about a blog that I have been reading recently. It’s called The Good Life and it’s written by a very inspiring lady called Maria Palma.

I won’t tell you all about it here because you can read her posts in her own great writing style, so I urge you to visit her site. It may sound like I’m overdoing the praise, but I honestly can’t stress enough how much finding her blog has impacted my life, almost instantaneously.

Yes, I believe life can really turn out to be that incredible and that there are some real gems in the blogosphere, so go and give Maria some "Web Love" by having a read.

Thank you Maria

Yesterday was a day that I cannot really do justice by describing just in words. I had conciously not got myself worked up or angry about the breakdown of my Powerbook, which is something I would normally do. I have been known to just flip about things like that, but this time I was very concious of the fact that any such reaction would be futile. It won’t fix my computer and it won’t change my life from the way I don’t want it to be to the way I do. Simple as that.

I spent my day off (yes another one. I have more days off than days in the office!) reading some great material regarding the Law of Attraction and working through some useful exercises getting clear about what I want out of life. I sat down to write a list of all the things I want with some detail elaborating on the feelings and emotions that having those things evoke in me and what happened was breathtaking. Instead of making a long list, like a wish list, I ended up writing a detailed description of just one thing and I knew as I was writing it that this was truly the thing I wanted. I have never had such clarity defining what I want. Never this focused.

The "thing" I described was a lifestyle. I detailed where that would be, what it entaled and who was a part of that lifestyle. As I wrote the details I could feel myself smiling as if from inside myself, from my core and when I read it back to myself it made me cry with joy. The kind of feeling I believe I would have if that desired lifestyle, that wish had just been confirmed and granted to me.

Later on I called my girlfriend and I told her all about it. I explained what I had done and what it was all about. I read to her what I had written on the page and her response couldn’t have been more perfect. She told me that what I had just read made her feel really happy and she could hear that the words were straight from my heart. She believes that I am on the right path. Needless to say that she is a prominent feature in what I wrote.

I told her also about my faulty computer and she said that she will wish that it can be repaired easily and that my recording studio can be up and running in the least expensive way. About 2 minutes after the end of our conversation I went to switch on my computer just for the hell of it. It worked…… This is the absolute truth I swear.

OK, so the computer still intermittently refuses to boot up as I discovered later, but at least I know it is not a serious problem. Just one which needs to be attended to. At least it’s not a complete rebuild or replacement job!

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I had a great evening with a good friend of mine last night. We met up for a beer or two and visited the famous Brick Lane for a curry. For those of you unfamiliar with London, Brick Lane has been known as the curry district of the capital for years. There are more Indian restaurants on this one street than you can imagine. It’s not quite like it used to be, but if you are a visitor to London I recommend going there. It has a great atmosphere and there’s more to do and see than just the Indian restaurants too.

With my imminent trip back "home" (it feels like home) to Thailand I was waxing lyrical about that and my past experiences there. I hope I didn’t bore him too much! Our conversations also inspired some new ideas in the area of creativity. We are both musicians and like to share our creative ideas in that department.

This morning an important part of my world seemed to collapse in front of my eyes. My trusty Powerbook died on me! I have no idea what the problem could be. This old G3 powerbook Pismo is the hub of my portable recording studio and without it I don’t have a studio. Now this is a real headache, especially as I was just getting to a point where I believed it was going to start earning me an income. I now have some decisions to make. I can pay somebody to diagnose the fault and to repair it if it can be done, which could be costly, buy another 2nd hand powerbook, which I can’t really afford or forget about having a recording studio for a while.

If I gave up I would be destroying my soul, so I’ll forget that as an option altogether. It seems this is a little test that the universe has thrown at me.Funny that seeing as it was only 24 hours before that I started really taking on the awareness of the Law of Attraction. Well I’ve got news for the universe… I’m well on track and things came up in conversation last night that have made me certain of what I am to do. I am to get my studio back up and running. I’ll not say what was discussed exactly last night, but it was basically the birth of my career as a mix engineer. The beginnings of my music-based business.

I wrote the draft for this post on the train late last night and in case you’re wondering….. Yes, that guy in the window was there watching over me again, just like the night before! (see this post)

Apologies to anyone who visits this page regularly hoping to read something new. I have been a bit slack lately, mainly with regard to my additional site content. I still haven’t got it together in my photography section. There will, at some point be a photo gallery and something a bit more interesting to read than what is presently there. Keep your eyes on the blog though because I have some interesting stories of the last couple of days, which I would like to share. I’ve just got to post them!

I have read a fair bit over the last few weeks about the Law Of Attraction, which seems to be the latest buzz phrase on the net, which is a little annoying because any mention of it may appear like jumping on the bandwagon, but instead of not mentioning it through fear of what people will perceive about this post I’ll post it because these are my words and I wish to write about my experiences of it, which will come in due course.

No doubt there are many people trying to cash in the notion that you can have anything you want if you "wish it hard enough".

The thing is though that the Law of Attraction seems to be nothing like that at all and whilst it’s something I have only been studying for a few weeks it resonates with alot of things I have had insights to and interest in for a number of years. At times here I will post about the Law of Attraction and if and how I am applying it to my life. I’m very excited about it. It seems to say something very real at a very deep level to me. I have always thought of myself as open to having my world turned upside down and it has been in a small way in the past, but I guess the proof of how open-minded I am will show over the coming weeks and months.

If I have the ability to maintain a solid level of commitment and trust in a process then I feel that the Law of Attraction could become a fixture at Leave The Office.

This subject is covered in an extremely down-to-earth way at The Neural Recon Report, where I share my personal experiences of the various ways in which I am applying new principles to empower myself and create the life of my dreams. Most of which are proving to be very effective in providing me with noticeable change.

In fact two day trips…
I am working today and tomorrow during the day. Two days of every month I work on a weekday, although I am starting at 10am, which gives me time to do some exercise and have a good breakfast. Oh yeah, one thing about me is that no matter what else I get to do I always make sure I have time for breakfast of some kind.

Never having to experience travelling to work on a Monday morning is a blessing and twice a month I quite look forward to going to work, so I can catch up with people that I don’t get to see much of. I think I would have trouble enjoying my work if I had to do it from Monday to Friday every week. I actually don’t get on too well with a rigid routine, although I would probably get more done and be better organised!