Inside The 2013 Billionaires List: Facts and Figures

Inside the 2013 Billionaires List – Facts and figures.

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Ludwick Marishane: A bath without water

Ludwick Marishane: A bath without water #TED : http://on.ted.com/eUtM

Be Prepared to make Mistakes!

Found this TED video, heard this quote within it, and had to tell everyone about it. Particularly you.

“If you are not prepared to be wrong, you will never come up with anything original.”
- Sir Ken Robinson

But don’t just stop there. Listen to the whole video. It is hilarious … and quite enlightening.

~ For those with a creative bent, like myself, you might find yourself.

~ For those that employ creative people, let it wash over you, think it through, then realise that your organisation might need to rethink the reasoning for employing staff. Not everyone you employ needs to be corporate, and not everyone needs to be creative. Most people need to be a mix of both corporate and creative. A little more creativity in the corporate world will help to make the experience more fun, worth attending, and, particularly, help retain staff.

If the video doesn’t appear for you, you can see it here: Ken Robin Says Schools Kill Creativity

Using Pain to Focus on What Matters

Thanks to a comment last night on my Facebook status, I spent my night dreaming through what my life would be like without a job. It wasn’t pretty, I did NOT like it.

Whilst my brain might be a bit addled these days with ‘Severe Vertigo‘, I still have the power to think, reason, create and succeed. I also have the fortitude to do things that others would see as unclimbable obstacles.

A Little Bit of History

In 1992, thanks to the actions of one person, my life changed completely. After my emotions spiralled downwards temporarily (for about 2 years), I found the inner strength to lift myself out of the chasm.

For about 3.5 years I spent every day wearing a $100 suit and carrying a near-empty brief case to my local employment-office – to look the part of the person I wanted to become. It paid off.

In mid 1996 I acquired a 6-week temp’ job in a government department. It was the ‘in’ I needed to start my way up the job-chain.

In 2012, after 14 years of shovelling-proverbial-shite, I found myself in a role that not only enables me to utilise every skill I have got, enhanced and learnt over the preceeding 20 years: I continually find it is actually fun and suits me.

Back to the Future

So I focused my dreams last night onto what I would do to [1] fix my situation and head, plus what I would to [2] help a person whom I revere and respect immensely. Some days you need to focus on what matters, and not upon the things that hurting.

So I have TWO big projects to create and do over the next 11 months.
[1] Organise and participate in a 3+ person photo gallery. This will include the person I want to support, plus a few others whom I anticipate will want to be involved.
[2] Organise and participate in a 40+ person photo exhibition. Aha, you read right, forty people. There is a lot of work ahead of me for this project, yet it will be worth the effort.

Whilst you might think that this is a lot for any one person to do, I know I can do this. Plus hold down a 9-5 government job, PLUS do all the normal things I do.

Fortitude, strength, belief in self. Characteristics I have, despite what a few people believe or have seen of me.

So I am not quitting. I’m certainly not giving up. This is where I begin again. Thank you to those who didn’t believe me – you continue to strengthen me and give me the determination to achieve any goal I set of myself.

Those projects are not gonna get themselves done. And my baby boy is not going to survive without my help.  It’s time to get off the couch, get on with life and do all I can to make myself better. I ain’t letting this one moment in my life tie me down or hold me back. This too will pass.

What are you doing today?