Lately, I’m becoming paranoid people think I’m some sort of boring know it all.

In the last week, I’ve:

• done Club DJ gigs & a radio show
• talked about Drug + Alcohol Misuse
• consulted for 3 people on eBusiness strategy + online marketing
• had a couple of Life Coaching clients
• referenced the psychology of love equity on another blog

I’m also learning spanish, PHP and CSS… my current reading list includes books on neuro-linguistic programming, consultancy, the world debt problem and croatia!

I need to get out more!!!

what’s wrong with me???? I think its an addiction, certainly when I’m not learning anything I get bored incredibly quickly!

yesterday, I felt like crap. Either I had some sort of stomach bug, or my gut was flushing something out following my detox diet. Not sure if this non-yeast + alcohol thing is working, today I have the runny nose again… I’m going to give it to friday, if I don’t feel anybetter then… I’m drinkin at Homelands!

It’s so hard to get things done when you’re ill, I had things I wanted to do yesterday that I’m only just getting done now (although I got some stuff done). All I was able to do was sit and hack around with this site and do a bit of design for a client… the real work I needed to do, planning the next few weeks, got left.

Today, apart from the cold, I feel better. I’ve made myself get out of bed early n get on with stuff. Anyone got a cattle prod? Not sure I can keep this up today.

I find it fascinating how people instinctively resist change…

If you look above, you’ll see I’ve added a button called “screenshot”

I challenge you, to have a good look and tell me what it is you preferred about the old site… be honest, you’re just being resistant to change for the sake of it, aren’t you?

Fascinating…

Now some good reasons I think this one is better…

1. The RSS feed is working – ok its quite geeky but I bet that soon you’ll be using RSS…
2. It’s not launched YET but the screenshot button will change to become an integrated gallery (which I couldn’t do before)
3. This style gives me much more control over things like font size (which I’m open to comment on… I’m pondering making the main entries a size larger – feedback?

yes, I felt it was time for a new virtual lick of paint… seeing as how the flat is about to get a 9 day changing room style blitz, I wouldn’t want this place to feel left out…

What do you think? Prefer the old one? Any german words still lurking? I quite liked “AbsChicken” in place of submit… Working ok on your Mac domino??

Apologies to anyone who logged on earlier… the changeover was a bit bumpy if you were browsing with Internet Explorer (boo hiss) but looked fine on Firefox (go get it!) – all done now

Sunday saw a brief road trip to visit a load of relatives in Bath… turned out to be pretty much the whole williams/greenhalf tribe. I like these big family gatherings, most of my family lives 3+ hours away so I don’t see them as often as I’d like. (plus I work mainly weekends and they all work in the week)

The reason for this gathering was “the twins” birthdays a couple of weeks ago and my mum’s twin brothers wife’s birthday on sunday. (confused?)

Check this out for a sizeable clan… (people don’t believe me when I say Christmas shopping is hard work)

• my mum
• mum’s mum
• mum’s twin brother
• mum’s twin brothers wife
• mum’s twin brothers wife’s mum
• mum’s twin brothers wife’s mum’s sister!!! (Confused now???)
• plus 3 cousins (with 2 other halves) 2 more uncles and an aunt

From the Greenhalf side (my mum’s tribe) the only person missing was my sister (who has her CEMA exams this week – good luck sis!) so my gran made us all sign a postcard wishing her luck in her exams.

Meeting family is always weird, I’m kind of a wild child of the family, I think they’d love it if I had a normal job… girlfriend n all that… nah! not me guv’nor!

Anyway, family tree done n dusted… the whole point of this was about mindset.

Apart from my cousin Helen who is starting to discover that life can be whatever you make it (and possibly my uncle David), I have only 1 fundamental difference to my family, which I must remind myself of (hence the reason for todays post)

They settle, I challenge.

I don’t mean that in a bad/derogatory way, its just, they all sit around discussing how bad their boss is, how much they’d love to have more holiday time… etc etc, perfectly normal things. I just don’t see life that way, I know life is whatever you make it.

If i want the weather to be nicer, I’ll work out how to move somewhere hotter (Still working on that one)…

If my boss is working me too hard, I’ll quit and become self employed (oops did that too)…

Note to self: Take time to set your goals, work out how to reach them… break it down into chunks then go do it!