I have posted about Kevin before, but at last I have watched his ‘Secret Millionaire’ show. All I can say is that it is very touching!

I had the joy of being on a course run by Kevin for 3 days.. Let’s just say that he knows his stuff and is very charismatic twinned with being a great speaker. I believe that he is in the middle of one of his own branded courses in London this weekend, ‘Building Wealth with Kevin Green‘.

If you haven’t seen his Channel 4 programme you can can get to it here:

Secret Millionaire – Kevin Green

If you are looking for a new financial plan I cannot recommend seeking out Kevin enough!!

Onwards and upwards

So, I’m up and out by 8am. Sitting in Starbucks with a huge coffee just across the road from where I am supposed to go.

I miss London you know, the hustle and bustle not to mention the gorgeous women, it’s all good thus far this mornin. Coffee, Bob Marley on the stereo and people watchin.

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