Antoine Dufour and Tommy Gauthier play ‘Jerry’s Breakdown’ - composed by Jerry Reed - on a single guitar in what I would describe as a fun and uplifting video.

It’s not hilarious, and it’s not meant to be, but it does put a smile on your face.

What a great example of two people working together and having a good time whilst doing so. Learning this piece with a team member should be compulsory in offices up and down the land!

Enjoy.

You may wonder the source of this elation?

I had a day off today during which I was able to finish several jobs that I’ve been putting aside for months, which considering what was involved is ridiculous.

One of the major wins was clearing a part of my back garden so now I can get on with preparing a new base for my shed. Yes, a shed, I will explain.

Garden gets cleared, shed gets built, garage gets emptied into shed, garage is restored into a music studio and office. Ah, there’s the source - being a step closer to regaining a creative workspace.

It’s not like I’ve been totally beating myself up about it, the reasons have been valid - storing the kids stuff and all the new camping gear we’ve bought to have more interactive (cheaper) family holidays - but it has been playing on my mind.

There’s just so much that I want to get on with creatively that it’s starting to become a real frustration. Zeigarnik again!

So, by now you may be wondering what this Zeigarnik thing I keep mentioning is? Well, the Zeigarnik effect is that frustration and annoyance of having unfinished business, an unclosed loop if you will.

Bluma Zeigarnik (9th Nov 1900 − 24th Feb 1988) was a student of Gestalt psychologist Kurt Lewin and she completed, in 1927, a study of the effect that unfinished tasks can have on the mind.

The story, which is told several ways depending on where you look, is that she was sitting in a coffee house in Vienna taking notice of the waiters. What she noticed was that the waiters seemed to have a greater capacity to remember what people had ordered when the bill was yet to be paid than when the transaction had completed. The human condition quite simply has real problems with unfinished business.

This has implications for all of us and can be applied in interesting ways - for example when learning something new it can help to put the book down before the end of a chapter to keep your interest going.

For the purpose of this post I recommend attacking your ‘things to be done’ list, which if you’re being honest is probably nowhere near as long as the list in your head. You’ll feel so much better for it.

I do, but then hey, I’m getting a new shed

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This award winning sandpress theme is designed by Arpit Jacob who’s blog is over at Clazh.com

You may have to bare with me as I make changes, mainly due to the wordpress 2.5 upgrade and plugin compatibility issues but I’m sure we’ll get there.

I would also like to extend my thanks to Arpit for his help in getting things running and would encourage my readers to visit his site and ’share the love’. After all he’s done it for free.

Let me know what you think of the new look.

I had just been to an annual product show for musicians and bought a bass guitar - I am not a bass player!

Enjoy.

Although the final stable version is not yet released the promise is that it will be available by the end of March 2008. There is also a downloadable preview version which allows you to mess around with it and see what you think, both front and back end.

Personally I think it is very user friendly, although I admit that I’m no programmer so unless I learn code over night I’ll be waiting for a few templates and help files to come along. That said, with it being opensource there is already a community forming and lots of help being offered.

The only downside I can see at the moment is the lack of integration for downloadable products, mp3s for example and potentially this could lose a reasonable number of adopters to the platform - I for one need the ability to add downloads as a product and there are no doubt lots of users out there that would require the same. I hope this is included in the final production ready version or at least gets implemented very quickly.

Overall it offers a lot of control (setting up discounts and promotions is a breeze), aesthetically it looks very professional and I think it is going to seriously rock the e-commerce boat.

This isn’t a post about it being easy - the answer there lies in how you feel about what you’re doing - no, this is more a question of where your limits lie.

When you are in a situation that quite frankly you’d rather not be in, be that a relationship or a position of employment, what personal boundary settings do you have? How much do your personal commitments, family etc, come in to it?

When do you know it’s time to change, and more importantly what brings you to do so ?

Yup I joined up to Technorati. The link above takes you to my profile over there.

What would that be for you? A new job? - Maybe no job?

Maybe it might involve facing your fears and embracing what you’ve always wanted to do?

To quote a line from Marianne Williamson “We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented and fabulous?” - We make things so big and scary don’t we.

Just for a minute give it some thought, pretend it’s easy, indulge yourself and knowing you cannot fail what would you do?

It seems that there is still a market for individualism and that in my book has got to be a good thing.

It makes me realise just how much more I could do with my boys. They don’t want me to get promoted or earn more, they just want time with their father. First stop, 50 mile bike ride for charity in the summer ‘08. It’s a start.

Thanks to my good friend Kevin Watson for putting me on to this.