Since I achieved my primary goal, which inspired this website I have been literally spewing out ideas for various new business projects. The main area I have been proavtive in is my music and I have what I believe to be some pioneering, if not revolutionary ideas for the distribution, promotion and enjoyment of music.

Still that’s not really the topic of discussion here right now. This is an update for any visitors here who have noticed the tumbleweed lately. I have been re-assesing all my current projects and have had to prioritize development of them all, one at a time.

Leave The Office is currently under this assessment and I am still developing ideas as to the direction to take it. Not long after starting this blog my writing began to take the direction of a self-growth and transformational nature and this is a subject that still fascinatges and interests me. Being well on an intense self-growth path myself I often have something to write about on the subject from experience, so that is what I now do at The Neural Recon Report.

If that’s of interest to you, then get on over there and have a read. The main focus of it currently is the various ways you can increase your awareness of how you create your own reality and results and how you can then consciously change that process to create the results you want. I am really enjoying all the stuff I am learning from doing this and I love sharing information like this in the hope that more people will find a way of enjoying their lives, more of the time. This world does need cheering up!

Leave The Office will be changing, but it is not the highest priority. Now I have left the office I am thinking of directing this blog towards my current lifestyle and environment here in Thailand, my new home. I have a few ideas for that too and I would like to improve on my photography and video making skills by making pictures a focal point (excuse the pun!) of this blog.

However with The Weekly Songcast in full flow and my participation in several challenges, which all seem to have coincided in July & August I am really busy! In fact I am busier than I ever was when I had a regular job, although when it doesn’t feel like work and the alarm clock in the morning is a beautiful sound, this kind of busy is perfect.

It’s rainy season here now, so there is plenty to be doing in cyber space!

If you are reading this now, Thanks for sticking with Leave The Office!

Currently Participating in:

• The 50/90 Song Challenge (1st July - October 1st) To write 50 songs in 90 days.
• The Boundless Living 45-Day Challenge (starts 20th July)
• The 30 Day Challenge (starts 1st August)

Currently Following:

• Think Simple Now - Inspiring blog
• Soul of Songwriting - Excellent podcast
• Steve Pavlina - The Self Development Blog

I have added a new article and a new product review to help inspire a sense of motivation and encouragement in your own journey towards a more fulfilling life. I believe that most people who stay on this website long enough to read any of it are interested in how life works and wish to learn the steps to dance with it rather than battling against it the whole time.

The article is called The Law Of Attraction: An Experience and the review is for the Dream Manefestation Wizard, which is a simple, but very effective tool to aid in the acheivement of your desires.

Has anything profound happened to you in your life that made you see that there is definitely more to life than we take for granted. I would love to hear about it and publish a selection of the most inspiring and interesting accounts, so get in touch and send them to me.

My contact page seems to be broken at the moment , so please send any correspondence to info at leavetheoffice dot com

Since the redesign the feed link will not work for my posts. I was using the feedburner service. It looks like something is wrong in my database table, but I have no idea how to fix it. I have tried every trial and error thing I can think of.

Please if anybody knows how to fix this stuff I would be very grateful for them to contact me and help me sort it out. I can’t understand why it doesn’t work anymore. the feed for comments works perfectly.

Thank you.

So it’s goodbye to the beloved, original LTO header. It’s a bit sad not to see my favourite beach at the top of the page, but I felt that there’s no point getting too personally attached to a picture. A new header, a new beginning for this website.

Still the old header is still proudly displayed in the Travelog because I didn’t see the point in redesigning the stylesheet and templates for that.

Ironically, now I am getting more active in developing this site I have also started to get more active developing 3 or 4 new sites. All this and trying to find the time to devote to my music, which is going as strong as ever. I guess the busier I am, the less time I will have to procrastinate. Time managent is my weakness, so this is a good exercise for me. If you’ve seen the new (temporarily written) homepage then you will also be aware that I am very keen to get a few like-minded and enthusiastic writers on board to "Guest-blog" here at Leave The Office to provide a variation of writing styles. If you are interested in this please contact me. You’ll be given the title of LTO partner and I think we can build ourselves a great team that will bring benefit to each other and those that read the content.

To all those that already read this blog. I thank you very much indeed and I look forward to you continuing to read the rest of the website as it develops.

Ciao for now.

I am about to implement the new-improved LTO site! I hope the internet doesn’t come to a complete standstill!

If you do happen to be reading when it goes down, which it will for a while then I apologize for ruining your experience.

Be back soon!

If I don’t get on and start reconstruction work now then I can see it becoming a project that never actually gets off the ground.

Seeing as this blog doesn’t make much money at present I am comfortable with the thought that during the maintenence work it may be unavailable for periods of time or in a state of dis-repair shall we say.

Rather than waiting to start work until I have all my ideas, designs and layouts finished I am just going to dive in and "massage" it into shape. That way it will be able to take the shape it is supposed to take more naturally. Over the years, producing and mixing music, watching other’s techniques and my own experience I have come to know something about my creative process of bringing everything together in harmony and synergy.

With mixing several tracks of audio it doesn’t take long for everything to start sounding great. It’s as though the mix is almost complete in no time at all. Then however, when I start to gently fine-tune all the instruments and voices to fit more naturally with more space, things start to fall apart sonically, so after a few hours it’s as though the overall mix has deteriorated, but this is an illusion. It’s like a Rubik’s cube puzzle. You have to break up some of the sides you have matched up in order to re-align the other sides too (although I never actually managed to complete that puzzle!). Anyway, just when it all sounds like a mess there comes a point, ever so subtle where suddenly I’ll realise that it sounds great again. Only this time it is very close to being complete. This is my experience of how it works for me and I am applying this philosophy to rebuilding this website.

So it may look great very soon, but then look like somebody has taken a hatchet to it, followed by a beautiful new Leave The Office, reborn and ready to inspire once again.

Some results of my mixing methodology can be heard here

What can we expect from the new improved Leave The Office? Well, I’m open to discovering the path as I go along as I have been doing already. This is why this is all happening now. I always had an openness to this blog being whatever it wants to be, but I have got a few specifics that I will try to implement and reader feedback is always welcome in shaping it of course.

I would love to have a number of writers here posting as and when they feel. There would be a general guideline to the subject matter, but it would provide the site with some varied writing styles and a chance for people to explore another channel for their writing.

There will be some content, which I hope will expand people’s thinking and inspire positive changes in their lives.

I also want to include podcasting and involving a number of other websites that I have created., providing a network of some kind. My main areas of content, which are also my main interests in life are music production and self development. Sounds scary, but self development is just a phrase. Who doesn’t want their life to grow as big and full as it can possibly be?

If this inspires any suggestions from people I would be very grateful for the feedback. If you want to be involved at all and you have an idea of how you think you could be, just drop me a line on the contact form.

It’s time to be big!

I have added a hidden page to the site.

It is hidden somewhere, could be anywhere and I am very interested to see how quickly people can find it. The hidden page contains a comment form, so if you find it you can inform me by leaving a comment.

Everyone who finds the page and leaves a comment will be rewarded with a link, but in order to keep this amazing prize as exclusive as possible I will limit the number to 10, so that the link to your site will have more value. I wil list them in a dedicated category to those that find the page. I am not sure what name to give the category, so suggestions are welcome.

Good idea or a waste of time? …. Let’s see.

I know this site is still yet to move up in terms of page rank, but remember that when this site is receiving 100,000 unique visitors a day, your site could be a recommended link on it’s homepage. Consider spending a little bit of time and enjoyment reading through all the pages at Leave The Office as an investment in building on future traffic to your site. If you have no website do not fear. You will be put on the list and when you get your own domain name, just let me know and I’ll add it. I treat everyone equally here.

Have Fun!

I have been thinking a lot lately about good ideas to interact with my readers or, at least for my readers to experience some interaction for themselves when they visit. I am already very grateful for the visits I have received from many very generous people, but I want more. Much more!

I have a couple of ideas that I hope will encourage this interaction and also give me some feedback as to what works for Leave The Office and what doesn’t.

I haven’t actually started just yet, but I have decided to build some hidden pages within the site, just for a bit of fun and as an incentive I’ll be offering gifts to those who find them and report on them. I don’t quite know what I’ll be giving away yet as gifts, but it’ll be along the lines of links, recommendations to visit your site etc…

Once I have created some hidden content I’ll post here as to the way in which they may be hidden, so stay tuned. I’ll be posting on that soon and please comment on this post. Please let me know if you think it’s a really rubbish idea as I would like to know what it is people want to see and do here at Leave The Office.

Cheers.

The travelog of my adventures in South East Asia are now up, at least from November to December 2004. The pages are here or accessable from the menu in the top-right of this page.

I am currently creating the pages for the 2nd month of my trip. I’ll be writing this period from memory as I didn’t make any entries in my travel diary after 16th December. Forgive me if it’s a little indulgent of me to publish such a personal experience, but the process of creating these pages has helped me improve on my website design and photo-editing skills. I hope it is of interest to other people.

Now I’m on a roll writing content it’s time to think about some more useful topics to put in my posts, like information on the subject of travelling and generating an income.

As mentioned in an earlier post I missed the deadline to generate some money, but my intention, albeit a week late has been realised. I have generated my first online income ever! It’s a huge breakthrough and the first of many I hope.

I’m still transcribing my travel journal onto my PC and it is taking a long time, mostly because it’s a bit of a monotonous task and I’m getting easily distracted. Of course once I’ve finished typing it out and re-wording it there’s the small job of designing the webpages that it will all go on! Still once that is done I’ll be happy that there is some content on this site other than just the blog.

I registered a new domain name yesterday. I think it’s a good one and as soon as I have added the much needed pages to this site. I’ll start design work on another website. I’m in the middle of writing several new songs too as I seem to have been hit with a wave of creativity and my time is being pulled between recording the songs and creating my website content. I think it would be easier if I only had one interest to work on, but there is no way I can give up making music & playing my guitar and I’m intent on generating an income from websites too, so I’ll just have to adapt and get it together!

I’m also excited about Monday 12th February because that is when my new acoustic guitar is arriving. It should have arrived on Thursday 8th, but what with the bad weather and all services in the UK being unable to cope with a few inches of snow, even with advanced warning, the delivery has been severely delayed.