I simply cannot let a whole month pass without posting at Leave The Office, but I don’t really have much to say. This blog has lost it’s way a little in the last few months, which I am OK with because I am happy to let things evolve naturally and the main reason things have dropped off here a bit is that I am engaging with my life’s passion; making music more than ever. However I, myself would like nothing more than to see the author of this web site manifesting "Leaving The Office" and to use his own personal experience as a way of inspiring others who have a similar desire to do so.

The time is approaching however. I can’t really say much, but I will be making real the intention quite soon and that is confirmed fact, not speculation. What happens exactly when I do leave the office is not yet clear. I may find myself in another office, but if that is the case then it will be an office very different from the type of office I have become used to in the UK.

In fact now I have quite a fondness for "The Office" because I realize that trying to escape or leave something is quite futile, seeing as the reality of what you are trying to move away from comes from within you anyway. Leaving the office has a somewhat different meaning for me than it did just over a year ago when this blog was born. What’s feels very good to me now also is that I won’t be leaving this place because I’ve had enough of it or because I can’t stand it. Quite the opposite. I like it here and I like the working hours, especially the time off that comes in long spells.

The reason I am moving on is because I have a whole new world and life to experience. One that is right there waiting for me to join in. It’s really exciting, a little scary, seeing as I don’t have any confirmed way of earning money as of yet, but the excitement and the sense of possibility & opportunity is stronger than the source of fear of unknown quantities and it is since I started my Weekly Songcast that my sense of purpose and my certainty of what I really want to do has become ever more clear and apparent. It’s the best feeling in the world, knowing what you want to do with your life and setting out to do it. In fact that feeling is enough to give rise to a feeling of certainty and knowing that success will present itself to you.

As it is often said that repetition of knowledge is what makes a difference I’ll repeat something that most people will already know. Making a decision is the biggest step and the most important one. It is what affirms your intent and focuses your attention on your chosen path like a laser. I have made a few decisions in the last few months and they have completely changed my world and made me feel one hundred times stronger and more certain of what I am doing. Even if my decisions had led me to a dead end very quickly, they still make you more certain because you have eliminated an ineffective path, which you would not have known was effective if you had put the decision off.

One such person who has helped inspire me to get to the point of making certain decisions recently is Tina at Think Simple Now. I send a heart-felt thank you to her.

Yes a decision is a demonstration of your personal power. USE IT!

I’ve been focused on my Weekly Songcast project lately and I think it’s time I posted here.

The songcast is doing more for me than I initially thought it would. I have very quickly found myself able to pen lyrics for entire songs, which is something I found almost impossible to do before. The word impossible has been banished from my everyday vocabulary for a while now and it seems that it is having a positive effect on things.

Now it’s not for me to say that just because I now seem able to actually write lyrics that they are very good. I’ll leave that up to everyone else to decide for themselves, but I am happy with the fact that now I relish the chance to sit down and write, because something invariably gets created, so regardless of the content, it is a huge improvement on never even getting started putting pen to paper because of some auto-assumed belief that "I couldn’t write lyrics".

You could say that it is presently my most important project because writing, recording and publishing a new song every week takes quite a large amount of my time and energy and seeing as I have built it on a new platform, namely iWeb and .mac using my Apple PowerBook. I haven’t got to grips with the publicizing side of it yet, so I will be promoting it as much as I can here for a while and I hope I can count on you loyal folks who visit here to pay the songcast a visit and contribute with honest comments. I would really appreciate it.

The songs should be on iTunes also, so you can subscribe to the podcast and have each new song download automatically as they are published.

So in a long-winded way this post is to announce that the PowerBook Producer’s Weekly Songcast has been updated with song number 4, earlier than scheduled. The song is called "I Want to be Right".

Please check it out. I suppose this post counts as a weekly landmark and the point of it, in keeping with the ethos of this site is to stay committed to your dreams. There is an unquantifiable force that gets involved when you commit to something fully. It seems to take over and it really is amazing how quickly you can start to see the emergence of success and achievement.

I’ve said it before and I’ll keep saying it: There is nothing better in this world than choosing to do what you love. The choice is always yours to take, no matter what.

The last week has seen somewhat of a personal landmark for me. My intention to start writing songs, (regardless of whether they are any good) has been realized with the birth of my weekly songcast.

I made a promise to myself that I would publish the first song by New Year’s Day and that this time I would actually make good my promise, which I’m glad to say I did.

Why is this landmark? Well I have been a prolific composer of music for several years, but I was never able to come up with lyrics. I still find it incredibly hard, but I think I’ve got over the first hurdle of worrying if my lyrics are good or not and by caring less about that I have found that lyrics are coming more naturally than before. The result is that I have now published two brand-new songs. Not bad for 5 days.

It’s a rather personal project and runs at a bit of a tangent to my recording website. I’m so glad I’ve finally had the nerve to do it. This is another landmark for me. In the past I would have shelved plans to do something like this out of fear of what others may think.

Check out The Songcast here.

Motivation seems to come and go for me, although I have covered a huge amount of ground in 2007 and I am find it easier to get motivated. The difficulty I face when my motivation is stuck these days is more due to the fact that I have so many projects on the go that I tend to create confusion and chaos for myself and I am still in the process of transforming my old habit of stopping and "checking out" when I find myself in that kind of situation.

Still, the fact that I have just acknowledged that is a step in the right direction. I am able to see it much sooner these days and ask myself why would I choose to slow down my own progress. If I know what I am doing and the effect it has on me reaching my goals (ie. slowing down my progressing towards them) then it is really hard to perpetuate.

Of course, life is about balance too and I need to know when I should simply switch everything off and go to sleep. Fortunately I will have no problem determining that today, seeing as I am finishing a nightshift in one hour and when I get home I know what I will need to do and I will be very glad to be reunited with my bed for the day!

I have been busy adding content to one of my websites, which I think has great potential. still no earnings yet, but that will come.

A personal landmark for me this week is that I have started to ask quality questions of myself everyday and I have stopped automatically saying things like "I can’t" and instead saying "How can I?". This is something I am having to think about less and less as the habit is becoming one which is serving me. I really do notice the fact that certain solutions, answers and certainly ideas are coming to me as a result. Not to mention a surge in the amount of music that I am writing, which is setting me up nicely for a particular project that I have promised myself will be officially live by New Year’s Day.

I’ll be including weekly personal landmarks from now on, so I will be getting into the habit of finding something that has improved in my life every week. Please remind me if it looks like I haven’t posted it any time in the future. Call me to account!

Was my last post really that long ago? I have no idea where that time went. I do know however that I have been going round in circles since I arrived back in the UK.

As far as moving forward with the big intention goes, things are still moving, albeit slowly. I’ve managed to attract some work outside of my regular job, which is a sign that I am realising my intention of generating income from various sources, so I’m pleased about that.

I’m doing some web-related work for somebody and also a music mixing project for a band whose music I am really into. I’ve always loved making music, recording, writing, producing and playing guitar and recently I gained the clarity of knowing which way of engaging with that is the way that really fits with who I am. Since having this realisation very positive things around the flow of activity and work in this area have occured.

However a few technical problems are throwing a spanner in the works and my already mediocre time-management skills are being further impaired as a result.

Sorry for the makeshift post. The next one will be about clarity as soon as I am clear-headed enough to write it!

I returned to England in the evening on 11th May, but this time, although I didn’t really want to be here and despite missing my beautiful lady enormously, I didn’t feel down-hearted.

I still don’t feel down now, sitting in the office on the night shift all by myself! Why? Well I think it’s because this truly feels like a temporary situation. Something inside of me shifted during my trip. I just have a feeling of certainty that I’ll be back there pretty soon and for a much longer period of time. I met a few very inspiring people whilst I was in the Land of Smiles and they have given me plenty of evidence that simply following your heart pays huge dividends in the area of living a joyful life. What else is there to aim for than that?

So knowing what I need to do, or rather be (after recovering from the jetlag!) is a very clear and simple matter this time. I am getting on with being what I want to be now, so that I will be totally equipped to relocate and continue being what I want to be when the time to move comes and I know that simply getting on with it now regardless of where I am or where I want to be is the key to achieving my bliss more quickly.

I feel that I owe a huge amount of thanks to someone or something. I just feel very very grateful for everything in my life right now and what I know is coming to me.

So I guess I can start by expressing my gratitude to anybody who reads this post. Thank you very much.

In order to make some sort of landmark out of this post I took a picture of the same beach in the header from the same viewpoint updated for 2007.

Leave The Office is changing…

Well actually it would be more accurate to say that it is evolving as I have mentioned already in a recent post Don’t Fight The Process

Since I started this blog I have experienced some profound changes. Through people and things I have discovered on this journey I find myself in a very different place to where I was in November 2006 when Leave The Office started.

After several failed attempts to fulfil my ambitions around my passion for music over the last few years and finding myself repeatedly back at the beginning of a cycle each time I think the Universe itself had had enough of my way of being, bringing about a change that I had no control over and ending the most memorable and educational chapter of my life thus far (see the statement at the bottom of this post).

LTO was born out of a desire to be free from a life of routine that I felt I had experienced enough of, especially after I had seen something of the world that ignited a new fire inside of me. I became inspired by people like Laptop Hobo and Working Nomad , who are out there travelling the world, dancing with life and making their living from website revenue. I whole-heartedly recommend you visit these websites if you have even a passing interest in either travel, money-making or both.

I dreamed of making money whilst not being fixed in one place, essentially not having a typical job and since October 2006 it became clear to me that my life vision includes my girlfriend Kan, who is too magical to describe with mere words, so in November 2006 LTO was born.

Where am I going with this post? What’s my point?

Well seeing as this always was an evolutionary process, it has dragged me along as it finds it’s own direction and that direction is becoming rather distinct. The discoveries I have made in the last 4 or 5 months are too big to ignore and so my writing, reporting if you will is going to reflect that.

As I stumbled into the void of creating my own lifestyle when I started writing this blog I had what I thought was a clear vision of what I wanted, although in truth it was confused, not certain and not really with any specific direction. The work I have done on the way here has created for me a truly clear idea of what I want to do with my life and by documenting it here, re-affirming it and honing the details in words, right here I believe will cement my vision and focus my intent in a more powerful way. It is still my passion for music that drives me, but I feel very different about it. Certain of it’s success in making me happy, but emotionally unattached to how it happens or whether it happens at all. The only emotions I intend to involve in this process are joy and gratitude when things are presented to me

I am having fun learning to live with my ego instead of as my ego, which is the hardest part of all. I am waking up to myself and it’s both hilarious and empowering.

Now despite all the above I don’t want to get all serious. This really seems like a much more fun way to explore life. I want anyone reading this to laugh at my mistakes as much as I do and believe me there will be plenty of them! I explained in an earlier post that the Law of Attraction may become a fixture at Leave The Office and I believe that now it will and, seeing as this is an exciting subject for many and that people are discovering it all the time I believe that here is a good place for people like me, like you, whoever you are reading this to encourage and train each other in designing our own lives and having what we truly want at the expense of nobody.

I stand here for everybody who chooses, to have absolute abundance in their life without exception. Why not? Wouldn’t it be better if everyone was just, well…… happy? I am considering inviting people to post on this blog as and when they wish. I’m not sure yet quite how to do it because, obviously I want quality original content, but this is in an effort to create some kind of unified voice. If you’re interested contact me. I’m open to ideas about how I can manage the content of posts and the conduct of posters.

To finish off this post I have a statement to make.
To those people who I have got to know, work with and create with (and they know who they are) I express my sincerest gratitude to every one of them for everything they taught me and I pray for their happiness and success in the fullest sense.

It’s official. I am a professional Mix engineer/Producer.

Since deciding that is my chosen line of work I have landed a fully-paid, professional project mixing some music which I think is really great. Only a couple of weeks ago I had this very clear vision of what I want to do and it is a reality already. I am very excited because I know this is it from now on, so when I get back from Thailand in May I’ll be able to get stuck into this great, creative project.

I’ll also be developing my idea for a music based site, which is the portal for all my music related work. It helps everyday to have some words repeating in my head that my girlfriend always says to me in her own gorgeous way.

“BELIEVE AND YOU CAN DO…”

I’ve suffered a bit of a setback.

Until two days ago this site was linked to by 41 different blogs according to Technorati. Now it’s only linked by 9 different blogs. My Technorati ranking has plummeted and indeed I have seen a drop in visitors to Leave The Office over the last day or two, which really concerns me. After all my hard work getting this blog moving I’m almost back at the beginning.

What’s going on? Can 32 blogs really have removed their link to my site all at the same time or is there a technical hitch somewhere. Maybe 41 blogs never linked to me in the first place. Funny that these stats seemed to change the instant I ran and then added the "How Much is Your Blog Worth" widget, which I have decided to remove. I didn’t like it much anyway!

I now have a few referals under my belt, which is great. I have a target that I intend to reach by the end of this month of 50 referals in my overall network, so what are you all waiting for? Sign up now. It will cost you nothing and if you already surf the web, which you must do seeing as you are reading this then you don’t even have to do anything extra to earn some money by doing what you already do… browsing on the internet!

Don’t know what I’m talking about? Read my previous post on this subject HERE.

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