For some time now I have had a rough collection of ideas bouncing around in my head relating to all parts of my life and how I want to proceed and grow, so I thought it was time for me to put my plan out in the open for all to see.
But before I do i want to thank everyone for my birthday greetings last week, I was very touched by the kindness, you rock! And lastly to share a couple of photo's of a couple of my gifts.
From my brother, something to keep me warm on my cold winter rides.
And a gift from me, to me, I finally found one, a Casio G Shock Mudman edition, I broke my last one.
Not long after new year a couple of things fell into place regarding my finances that basically meant that in 5 years from then I would be completely bill free, something I have been working on for a very long time and has already greatly reduced my stress levels already, I figured this would be a great time scale to work too, a fixed point in time to look forward too.
The next part only came about recently in a conversation with a friend on Twitter, I was talking about how I wanted to learn how to build and true wheels better when he suggested becoming a mechanic, I sat back, thought about it then smiled, I have found what I want to do for a career, only took me a few hundred years but thinking about it now it makes perfect sense and is the logical choice I have always done about 90% of the work on my own bikes and I enjoy getting spanner time on them, I just have to train.
After some research I found a company doing the courses, although I probably don't need to do all of them I sure want to have a good go and cover all the basics in an effort to learn my trade, the down side is the cost, just a 2 day course cost just over £400 and add fuel and accommodation and you are looking at £6-700, not even going to think about the 5 day courses.
So until then I am going to read as much as I can, working on road bikes is my weak side as I have little personal experience as is wheel building. Today a good thing happened to help this a little, I popped into my local bike shop, the Bike Cellar, and was chatting to the owner, who is also a friend, he was kind enough to ask if I would help run the trade stall for the Twentyfour 12 race here in Plymouth in July, of course I accepted, he also said that there was a chance I could get some Saturday work in the shop to gain even more experience. This was all really kind of him and I hope the Saturday job happens.
Last but not least there is my health and fitness, things weight wise are pretty stagnant with only occasional losses. I have a confession though, I have stopped counting and I am instead just focusing on just riding getting as fit as I possibly can in readiness for the two big races this year, once the last one in October is done I am going to sit back assess myself and how I am doing and set a program out to really get everything back on track in all areas.
I was going to add a fourth section, love and romance, I even joined an online dating site, a friend helped by pimping up my profile, put some pics up of my awesomeness and set about just looking around, I even tried messaging a couple of ladies, guessing I was not up to peoples standards or "interesting" enough, but the biggest problem was finding some one near by who I even liked or felt I wanted to get to know better, is that a bad thing? I don't know but I decided to pass on it all and just focus on the other things, the heart will sort it's self in time.
Well I hope this has made sense, I did not go into the fine details, no point in such a grand idea plus you would be bored to death and this blog would take hours to read.
Thanks again for reading, any thoughts or ideas please put them here or grab me on Facebook/Twitter, any help, support and advise is appreciated.
Mate, best thing you can do is to forget the scales and concentrate on your training for the races.
ReplyDeleteDo your prep right, get the miles in, focus on the goal, the weight will fall off.