The Boundless Living 45-Day Challenge starts today and I have set my goal. Now it is time to state my intention for what could be a turning point in me achieving my goals in life.

If you don’t know about the challenge, it is the brain child of Bob Doyle, who created the Wealth Beyond Reason program and who features in the movie The Secret. After registering for the challenge I didn’t really have a set goal, but now I am very clear on what I want to achieve. I intend to create 1000 true fans for my Weekly Songcast, which will provide me with a sustainable income for me to continue doing that as my job. If you haven’t seen The Weekly Songcast, it is my podcast site where I publish a new song every week. All songs are original and written by myself and I have just published a new feedback survey to get an idea of the type of person my music is appealing to. To be of true value I need to know who my ideal listener is so I can cater for their every musical need and be more than just a standard songwriter. I hope I can do that and with some feedback I believe I can.

What with the 50/90 song challenge in full swing also, I am pretty immersed in all things musical right now, which is fantastic!

I would strongly urge everyone who reads this to get registered for the challenge. If there is anything you really want to do, but for whatever reason haven’t done it or felt able to do it, then this is your chance to change your life around. No matter what it is. To tick it off your list of things you wish you could achieve is a pretty powerful thing to do and you will feel amazing for it. there is a thriving community of people over at the challenge who all want to make a difference in their lives. Following your passion as I am doing is just one way of doing something powerful in your life.

So get yourself over to registration at the 45-Day Challenge and please take the time to have a listen to my songs and fill in the feedback survey. You never know you may become one of my first true fans!

Enjoy!

Wow… What happened?

I am making some changes around here. In time I will probably tidy up the design of this blog, but the main change will be me. Leave The Office initially came about because of my desire to literally leave my office life behind. Anyone who has followed this blog at any time may already know that from the original idea my writing developed into a kind of personal growth account.

Well I think any personal writing counts as personal growth, unless one always says the same thing all the time and I feel that in trying to keep things "inspiring" or "profound" I am indeed finding myself with less to say because I feel like I need to come up with better words on any given day and sometimes even find myself writing something, which I have, in a round-about way said before and then I end up not posting anything for a few weeks, so…

I’m going to write what I like, when I like from now on. This is a personal blog, which I will contribute to when I feel I have something worth reading, to write. No more worrying about how many people are visiting to read or if my rankings are slipping or not. No more wondering if my traffic has increased from last month. I still believe I can provide some inspiration to certain people by just putting down my own thoughts and insights and I do know that I will have success stories to tell along the way, which will inspire. If I didn’t believe that then it would be a pretty meaningless existence wouldn’t you say?

So I guess my intention is to lay off the worry of not having posted for a few weeks and just enjoy what I do, when I do it. I started about four other blogs after this one and I just haven’t been able to keep them all going. One is enough! Websites are ok, but several blogs is a different story.

I just hope I’m doing the right thing….. I am aren’t I?… Yes I do believe I am. I’ll be focusing my attention on my music production and my website PowerBook Studio… It’s about time.

Now, off to play my guitar.

What with Christmas being not-too-far away I thought it would be a good idea to write down a thought I had today, mainly because I thought it was a good practice for myself.

In keeping with the theme of personal growth and goals it will not be too long before the obligatory New Year’s Resolutions are being made and forgotten soon thereafter and one of the most common ones will be the resolution to lose weight, especially after all the overindulgence of rich food over the festive period. Of course I could write for hours about how and why these good intentions always lose steam after a couple of weeks; how and why we tend to be pulled back into our regular ways and can’t keep up the "good" work etc…. but that is not what this post is about.

How about an exercise in prevention for once rather than a feeling of guilt, followed by a resolute move to improve, followed by another bout of guilt after those good intentions have been trashed before they even got going?

I have noticed my waistline becoming a little bigger than I desire it to be. I am starting to feel uncomfortable with things this way and I am also concerned about my blood sugar levels, which is why I have taken the time to get a blood test (results next week) and lay off sugar at least until I get the all clear.

Why do so many of us stuff ourselves to the point of bursting over the holidays and then try to embark on a mountain-climbing task to undo all of that damage? What if the diet came before Christmas? The intention could be that if I were to lose the required weight before all the "goodies" arrived at the table then I may feel less inclined to eat so much if I was aware that the price to pay for it was to completely waste all those weeks of hard work prior.

A few days before my 30th birthday I came down with Pleuracy. I was a fairly heavy smoker at the time and I physically was unable to smoke for 2 weeks. After the 2 weeks I realized that I didn’t miss the cigarettes all that much, so I just contiued to not smoke. That was how I gave up smoking and I can’t tell you howgreat it made me feel inside. I figure that a similar approach to losing all that Christmas weight may just work.

If you spent the time from now until the holidays losing weight and keeping trim and healthy then aren’t you less likely to just throw away all that work for the sake of eating too much just because it’s so easy to do.

I think it’s worth a try, so I’m going to continue on the low to no-sugar trail regardless of what my blood test results are and maybe I’ll have a little treat at Christmas, but I may not even feel like it by then, prefering instead the feeling of being healthy, fitting into my jeans without any over-hang to the taste and bloated feeling of too many sweets and mince pies etc.

If anybody feels motivated to do the same then please contact me. Knowing that others are doing the same thing at the same time will help keep our intentions focused.

Leave The Office is going to change. I am getting bored writing about myself and lately I haven’t really felt that there is anything new to write about.

I experienced a huge amount of postive changes in my life since the end of 2006 and there seemed to be something to report often. I was excited to document the latest episode and my self-belief was through the roof. Now this surge of energy has plateued, which is no bad thing. I am able to take stock of where I am and formulate some plans in a practical sense that will drive me ever closer to my heart’s desire, but I feel that if I continue this as a quest my reality will just become "me forever on a quest" and despite the old saying "The thrill of the chase" I want to hit my chosen target.

Leave The Office is going to be more than just a blog…

"My intention here and now is to persevere and to successfully be able to meditate without the conversation going on inside my head that it’s so hard to do. Along with that I intend to discover resistance I am holding that is in the way of me acheiving my desires and to then eradicate that resistance."

When it comes to acheiving your desires, especially when they are big desires like a change of lifestyle, making a living by doing what brings you the most joy etc… I feel it is imperative to look inside yourself to find where you may have resistance to actually manifesting these desires.

It is your core beliefs that hinder or help in your journey to fulfilment and success, so from that I deduce that it is necessary to come from a place of feeling and being rather than from a place of thinking and doing. The best way it seems to acheive this and thus turning down the volume of your minds voice, which may be telling you all sorts of limiting untruths about yourself, is to meditate.

I have real trouble meditating. I just can’t switch off random and habitual thoughts. It’s as if my mind is fighting tooth and nail not to be silenced. In fact I’m sure that it is. In fact, what happens often is that as soon as I attempt to meditate I can’t stop yawning, or itching or I’ll sneeze.