Typically, I woke up this morning in a crappy mood!! Not the way I was hoping to start the new year! I spoke to my mum and best mate Lizzy and all is looking much brighter… Their enthusiasm is really kinda infectious! All that twinned with having a quick listen to the Mumford & Sons channel on YouTube, has changed the start (I really recommend Mumford & Sons… Four Irish Folk Badboys!!)

Last year was my year of change, education and philosophy.. And I will be honest, it has been a real eye opener. I generally am a lot happier within myself, bar this morning ofcourse. So more of that this year!

What this post is really for is to wish you all a very happy, prosperous and productive new year. If you fail at your resolutions don’t wait again til next year, just give it another go! Someone famous once said ‘To change one’s life, do it immediately!’

Good luck and ‘onwards and upwards’

I have been chatting to a friend recently, who is getting fed up with his job, and is interested in what I am up to. I have always harped on about looking for ways out of the ‘Rat Race’ and now he is keen to start learning what I am trying to learn.

So the first thing I do is point him to this site and to the Rich Dad videos because it seems a logical place to start, as that is where I started.

Yesterday I called him to find out how he was getting on and his laptop was broken. So he hadn’t looked. I called him later, just to find out if it was interesting to him because he was going to use his mum’s computer…. Which again he hadn’t.

He subsequently asked me to remind him later on, which I did, for him to have a watch.

When I spoke to him this morning, again no joy.

Just brings me to the realization that here is someone who wants a change in his world, but will probably never find it. He will put off something really easy to do, because it is even easier not to. From what I know in this world, no-one is going to give you anything, you have to go get it. Maybe his want for change is not big enough, but who knows?

If you want change, you have to start now.. Not tomorrow.. Next week etc. We all need to commit ourselves and so far I have found these little changes highly rewarding.

Anyway… Back to work!!

Hi…. and welcome…

So, this is the first post on my new blog. I suppose, really, that I should introduce myself and give you a rough low down on what this blog will be about.

My name is Benny. I am 32 and semi-obviously… a bloke. I live in the UK, and work for a living in restaurants.

I have been in the restaurant industry for, on and off, 15 years. 10 of those years with the company that I currently work for. I had an epiphany just before the beginning of this year and decided that enough was enough… Time to design a life for myself that fits better with with where I would like to be in the future. 2009 was going to be ‘my year of change’.

Bizarrely enough, when I was in my early 20′s, I was a bit of an animal, always drunk or high, and would tell my mates that I would be dead by 32 (I think I thought I was going to go out in some rockstar blaze of glory, but here I am with only 7 months of 32 left, and sober… scarily sober). Maybe, I am subconsciously starting a new beginning instead of hanging up my boots, or some herbalist karma bollocks like that…

All I knew at the beginning of the year was that I was going to have to do something different. I quit drinking, apart from on holiday this year, and tried applying for different jobs… The jobhunt lead me nowhere. At least nowhere useful. I can get jobs.. if I get an interview.. but unless it is in the catering industry I would have to start at the bottom again pretty much… Which means a cut in pay…

I turned my head to re-education because tbh that was the only thing I could really change that wouldn’t cost too much. I started to read a lot more.. all realistic self helpish type books, no romantic novels for me!! I became a huge advocate of the quote from Mark Twain ‘I have never let my schooling interfere with my education’.

Anyway, I digress. What I am supposed to be explaining to you is what this blog is going to be about. To put it quite simply, this is going to be a blog about what I am doing and stuff that I have used to get me here. Hopefully pointers and a help to anyone who fancies trying to do the same or similar.

There will more likely be a booklist of books that I think are good, seminars and topic posts, hopefully all kinds of cool info and places to hunt for more.

So, here I am in a hotel room in London. I’m going to be hitting the hay in a second because it is an early start in the morning, 7am, and will be embarking on my first course with the RichDad Education crew over the next 3 days.

Vive La Resistance!!

I’ll speak to you tomorrow