Monday May 12
 
02:11
 
What I Want To Be

It’s taken me a long time to realise it, but tonight after watching The Apprentice USA Season 2 I can be sure: I want to be a big breasted kept woman married to a rich billionaire. 

Life is so easy if you’re a woman: If you’re ugly - plastic surgery; if you have small breasts - plastic surgery; if you want to get laid/have no money and want to drink alcohol/bored of an evening - go to nearest bar and shout “who wants to buy me a drink?”

Friday March 7
 
18:13
 
Eyes On Speed

Training again today - and entire day of speed reading training. You wouldn’t think that a course on reading would be hard work, but blimey, when you push yourself, it is.

I improved from about 230 words per minute and 60% comprehension to 410 words per minute and almost 90% comprehension. Pretty good improvement, I think.

The trainer recommends the Rocket Reader website for further training. Unfortunately it’s only free for 10 days. There must be some free sites out there.

Wednesday March 5
 
17:57
 
Passion and Fire

When someone talks with passion and talks from the heart, you can feel it.
 
When they can talk with passion and from the heart, and they know how to drive knowledge into your mind such that you not only get it, absorb it, and internalise it, but you don’t even realise the process is happening - that’s motivational and inspirational.
 
That’s the kind of person I want to be.
 
I forgot that for a long time, but recently I’m remembering it. It’s why I started Lick The Lard, to get people who want to lose and maintain weight but are failing, to look at their lifestyles from new angles and have “Eureka” moments, because I have presented thoughts and ideas in ways that strike home to them.
 
That desire was fired even further today, when I attended a training course. It wasn’t a boring “let’s sit in front of books” passive training course, but an active, involved session, using a variety of techniques and analogies to drive messages home. I remember sitting at break time thinking: “Damn it, do you remember when you had a plan to be a motivational speaker, Alan?”
 
And then suddenly I realised: It’s not outwith my reach. I’ve done something about it.
 
I am starting to be someone that motivates others.
 
Lick The Lard may not seem much at the moment, but I have written (on paper) pages and pages and pages of techniques, ideas, stories, angles to make people think differently, and succeed where they have failed before - assuming they want to succeed, that is. It is the start. It is a seed.
 
My plan, until today, has been thinking as far as the website only. In the other side of my brain, I’ve also had the thought of wanting to create and do something that will become an alternative career to me, something that I enjoy. I realise now that they are one in the same.
 
Done right, I can take Lick The Lard - and some of the other projects I’m working on - forward to motivate, and develop motivation into a career that fires me inside, and fires others into action.

Side not: I never realised that “outwith” is Scottish English. Just shows that I’ve not lost all of my Scottish roots ;)