Well, it’s been a frantic few days of packing and organising, paying bills and doing all the necessary paperwork before setting off on my big trip. I missed a few days of blogs, for which I apologise, but it’s been chaos here! I now have a big van parked outside the front of the house, […]
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Does anyone know of any other Ian Ushers out there. When I get to the UK in September, one of the goals I am hoping to achieve is to gather five Ian Ushers together in one place. So, my first task is to find as many Ian Ushers as I can. I have sent an […]
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I didn’t really bother doing anything special for my birthday, and just went out for a few drinks in the city last night at a friend’s leaving party – he’s also heading overseas for a while. So there was no birthday cake, or so I thought, until I received an e-cake from Canada. It’s a […]
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I was woken early this morning by a call from my very helpful travel representative with a view to sorting out my main flights for the forthcoming trip. I have been procrastinating a bit, as the house has not sold, but I finally decided, “What the heck? I’m just going anyway, I can leave the […]
Continue readingI was just looking back over recent blog postings, and noticed a comment that had just been posted by Yvette in response to the Happy Guy update blog. She suggests taking a look at this website: www.wherethehellismatt.com I have become a bit hooked on Matt’s pages, I like his writing style, and he has some […]
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This arrived as an “Add 5” suggestion, but unfortunately missed out on going onto the voting list as it arrived after voting had finished. It looks great though. There are some fantastic things to do, aren’t there? And you only hear about a lot of them when you ask people to tell you about this […]
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Voting for the “Add 5” extra goals has now finished. I have been watching the voting with interest, and have not been too worried about which ones make it into the 100 list, as I think they are all pretty exciting. However some of the movements are interesting, and it would seem that some people […]
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It’s been almost five months since I last went skydiving!! How on earth did that happen? Time has passed so quickly since my trip across Australia in my little camper van back in January and February. I bought my Toyota camper off a backpacker here in Perth, and drove around 8,000km across Australia, stopping at […]
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Four weeks ago today I had my first “Home Open”, the day before the auction was about to start. Little did I realise that less than a month later I would be doing the same again. So I spent most of yesterday cleaning the house (again!). I have no idea how it gets so messy […]
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A couple of weeks before the start of the ALife4Sale auction I did a blog about two Aussie fellas who had found a photograph of a happy-looking guy while they were working in a hotel in Banff in Canada. You can read the full story here:17 days to go!! Searching for a happy guy. Well, […]
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On Monday evening I was invited by a friend to a presentation on a course he had attended, and was very enthusiastic about. I went along to see what it was all about. One of the interesting concepts that was discussed during the evening was about knowledge. The presenter drew a big circle on the […]
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A few days ago I gave an update on what was happening with the ALife4Sale sale, which currently is not much at all! You can read that update here: Who bought ALife4Sale? All the answers…. And so now Plan B swings into action. I am still very keen to set off on my target date […]
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I finally got round to seeing the movie “The Bucket List” the other night, after so many people have suggested that I should see it. It stars Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman as two guys who meet while in hospital in a cancer ward. They both find out that they only have a short while […]
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When I first came to Australia I arrived on a Temporary Residents Visa in January 2002. Within the first year of living in Perth I set up a deckchair hire business on the beach at Scarborough, and spent the summer of 2002/2003 sat on the beach watching the world go by. Right next door an […]
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There have been hundreds of suggestions for extra goals which could be added to my list, many of which sound absolutely fantastic. It has been pretty tricky to narrow it down to only 20 to choose from. There are so many wonderful places to go too, many of which I have never considered before. I […]
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The ALife4Sale auction ended at noon on Sunday 29th June, almost two weeks ago, with the highest bid being AU $399,300. I was quite disappointed with the final amount, which is only at the bottom end of the valuation scale for the house itself, which was valued at between $400,000 and $420,000, but it was […]
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On the 7th July last year (07.07.07) the The New7Wonders Foundation announced the list of The New 7 Wonders of the World. The list was the result of over 100 million votes from all over the world. The announcement took place in Lisbon in Portugal, at the Benfica Stadium. Of the original list of the […]
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Well, it’s been a while coming, but today I fnally achieved a goal that I have now been working on for a few months. Back in early April I started to watch the first series of The Sopranos, a “modern day morality tale about New Jersey mob boss Tony Soprano, as he deals with personal […]
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Wow. I am already finding out some fascinating stuff about some of the places I am planning to visit. A couple of people have mentioned the sculpture-in-progress of Indian chief Crazy Horse, which is apparently fairly close to Mount Rushmore. I hope to see Mount Rushmore sometime around October this year, as it is already […]
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I am still working on the individual goals pages, adding text about the goals, sometimes some background on why they are on the list, or how long they have been things that I would like to achieve. I am also adding videos and web page links too, and hope to soon add a section detailing […]
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I visited a friend today, and got into a conversation with her kids about goals, and goal-setting. The oldest one, eight years old, wants to be a fashion designer. She suggested that I should add to my list “Become a billionaire”. Kids these days! Millionaire is just not enough anymore! Goals are easily achieved too, […]
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It’s been another long day at the computer, and visually the website doesn’t really seem to have changed much at all. However, I have done quite a bit of planning and sorting of information, and am still trying to figure out how to fit all of the goals in! There are quite a few conflicts […]
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The Bulletin Boards are now ready to use. Mel, my web designer has worked long and hard today to get them ready, and my allotted task was to provide coffee as and when required, and do all the repetitive copy and paste work! So you can now go to the Bulletin Board section, register using […]
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I think one of the most exciting things about this 100goals project is the opportunity to meet so many other people around the world, and to share the fun of making achievements with other like-minded individuals. I really like the idea of others joining in with this in whatever way they feel like, whether it […]
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When I first came up with the idea for ALife4Sale, I thought it would be pretty easy. Put a website together, make a press release, do a bit of a blog, run the eBay sale, done! But as I often do, I had underestimated the amount of work involved. I also grossly underestimated the amount […]
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Last night I finally found some time to sit down and make a proper start on getting the 100goals100weeks website knocked into some sort of shape. Assisted again by my brilliant web-designer Mel, we got some more of the functionality working, and put a lot more detail into some of the pages. Mel worked on […]
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Wow. I only first mentioned this idea just over a day or so ago, and I have been amazed by the response. Today is the 1st July, and so seems like as good a day as any to begin the new blog for my new project. I will continue to copy the blogs I write […]
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