Now this might have an effect on those who visit Leave The Office because the subject matter is likely to change a bit and it is very likely to cease being a blog. The focus of the site will still be the concept of leaving the office, but not my idea of what that is; more like an open concept where you can take any meaning you want.

So, if leaving the office for you is a vacation, experiencing a new culture authentically, just sitting on a beach, quitting your job and following your dreams or simply transforming your existing relationship with your job, so the office no longer feels like a trap to you then go right ahead. The blog will most likely move from here and become a podcast as already mentioned in my last post: The Airblade Diaries. This won’t be fully up and running for a while, most probably in the new year, but the project has been given the go-ahead!

Remaining here will be information on living overseas, working overseas, travelling to new and exciting places, out of the way places that still exist in places that are normally seen as over-developed by heavy tourism and anything else I can thing of about getting out there and seeing the world.

Thanks for sticking around whilst I have been pondering the future of Leave The Office.

Watch out then for my next project here. It won’t be active properly for a while because I am still waiting for certain equipment to be able to start effectively, but I will be starting a new video series here at Leave The Office called The Airblade Diaries. The Honda Airblade is a snazzy little motorbike/scooter that I use to get around Phuket. I am researching some out of the way places to take the bike and video the journey, giving you the chance to see some un spoilt parts of the island and yes, there are some; many in fact.

It seems fitting for a site named Leave The Office and I hope it will inspire people to get out there and explore the places they see in the videos or anywhere that they haven’t been or seen before. So make sure you subscribe to the feed, so you will know all about The Airblade Diaries when they are in action. It’s all part of my desire to share a beautiful part of the world with you. It really is a paradise here.

To all those who are still subscribed to my RSS feed. Thank you so much! Your patience is much appreciated and I will do everything I can to ensure that you will be inspired to leave the office and create the life of your dreams!

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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!

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

It seems I will now, in some ways be able to practice what I preach in that I will have officially left the office and will be following my passions with the intention of making a very successful living doing what I love. It’s quite amazing to me that it’s actually happening now after all the talking about it. Ironically this time I will be leaving a job that I enjoy, which is maybe why I feel a little nervous about leaving. it’s always more dificult when there is something you might miss about what you are leaving behind.

Still, I am and it does feel very liberating. I’ve got some great friends and family who are very supportive and I think I’m in better shape than I ever have been to grab life by the horns and make something of it.

Now I’m no guru, far from it in fact, but I am always happy to give my opinion, advice & support to anyone who has aspirations to go and actively seek their passion in life. I would be honoured to have the privelidge of playing that role to anyone who contacts me in this regard. I have been through many emotional stages over the last eighteen months to get where I am now and if there’s one thing I have learned it’s that experience can’t be beaten.

In fact as I progress I would like to develop Leave The Office as a place for those with this desire to try something different to get support. I think there are enough people out there who are experienced enough to give some great advice and those who are in need of such support to give them that extra bit of confidence they need to broaden their horizons.

Lets get together and help each other acheive the lives of our dreams. Any ideas as to how to go about it, just get in touch via the contact page.

Watch this space…

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!

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.

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.

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!