Back of a broken car

The rest of the day was spent sat on the side of motorway, then sat in a garage, then sat in a recovery vehicle in non moving traffic on the motorway to being sat on the train, to finally being sat in a car at the end of the day.

The only upside to the day is the spare car I have borrowed is a Lotus. Looks like I may have found an engine to drop in to my car too…. fingers crossed!

I’ll stick a photo on tomorrow of the cars collecting on the drive.

Oh, I did get confirmation of my little deal too - so atleast the went smoothly!

It is not your typical sort of investment, a world away from my usual work and it is in an area which I know very little about to be honest. However I am investing in a young entrepreneur who will give 100% to this, and with some money and guidance it has every chance of success.

For me its really the first off-line company I’ve been involved in since my early days, and I am glad to be diversifying a little bit. It is also somethign which unlike most of my ventures will be very quick to turn in to profit as there is no long development schedules.

The only risk here is the unknown, I have no guarantee that I will make my money back, no guarantee that it is a value proposition. But what I do get is a new distraction, the chance to guide and support a hard working individual with a unique idea, and an influence in giving it every chance I can to be a success.

So seemed like a perfectly logical thing to do, embrace not fear the unknown. As soon as all the official paper work is complete, and the website is up I’ll post a link on here and add updates.

Went on a nice early morning walk around Imperial Palace. Literally. All the way around, outside, around the moat. Its too early and its closed!

I’ve actually been up all night because I want back in to UK time as best I can and try to get some sleep on the plane. Very annoyingly I’ve come all this way and been so busy I have seen nothing of the place. Did go out for a meal last night in a very nice restaurant overlooking the whole city, other than that my only other excursion involved extreme Vodka, I can recall nothing.

So, from what little I have seen these are my conclusions!

If I were a lot less busy I would probably even investigate business out here. The population is 140m, with very high internet and phone usage… that has to be a a good starting point. Now you just have the simple problem of deciding what the business is and what the competition and market is like for that now. There is also a huge cultural difference that has to be understood.

7.10 am now, time for breakfast and check out.

I hope.

Sadly sometimes it’s just required to work through the night. However much you are able to work smarter and not harder, there are always times you have to knuckle down and work through, tonight was one of those nights.

Part of the reason for the updates is that the purpose of the site has been re-focused a little. It is now purely about my journey to £1 million, and my miscellaneous thoughts and adventures on this path I have laid before me. The site is not in anyway linked specifically to any sites or other projects.

I genuinely hope some people will be able to make a few extra pennies using my wisdom, or at least save themselves a lot of hard work in discovering something I have already spent time doing.
It might also help if a few people lose a bit of money along the way to balance things out! My influence is such that global economies could become hugely in balanced if this were not the case.

Besides its important to make few mistakes along the way. I make them every day (all deliberate as part of my self improvement program of course)

I have really suffered from stress only a couple of times, most significantly when I was managing 2 companies, both of which struggling, while juggling my massive personals debt.

Recently with the combination of moving house, work, long hours and again a few financial factors I’ve been a little more pressured than I have been for a long time. Though not stressed in the same way as I had been before, I can easily boil over in an instant and feel like murdering someone. Being an easy going and level headed sort of chap I am aware of the punishments facing such actions. I therefore try to avoid getting so angry I kill - it is inexcusable and “anger” will not help me in any court of law. Oh, I also don’t kill on moral grounds.

…anyway…. Saturday morning I went in to town to do a few routine things: Visit the bank to change my address, pop to post office, buy some lunch.
Instead of my planned routine I found myself in the bank, getting extremely pissed off and demanding to see the bank manager. I closed my account and stormed out. Town visit over.

For the rest of the afternoon I was very angry, very stressed, not pleasant to be around and definitely not productive.

Sunday morning the sun was shining and I saw a perfect opportunity to get out and mow the garden. Putting stripes up and down the lawn while Abi and Phoebe tended to the pots and plants was most satisfying indeed. Focusing on them, having lunch together and spending all afternoon in the garden was the first time in a long long long time I COMPLETELY forgot about work. Ridiculous how it took something so simple to put things back in to perspective for me. Then again everyone who knows me will vouch for what a complete fucking dick I can be!

Come Monday morning I was revitalised and looking on the bright side of life once more.

Realistically I can’t take much time off. I have massive work loads and responsibilities I must meet. But its nice to know that by stepping back for just a few hours I can unwind and appreciate what its all really about.

Click on images to see what makes me happy (zoomed in)