Day One: Cat Stevens

It's been some-time since I've written a blog on anything, but I'm in the mood for it today and I have nothing else particularly constructive to be getting on with, other than reading the book 'Egonomics' by David Marcum & Steven Smith, which is worth a look if you're into business progression or just improving yourself.

I've always been someone with great interest in ways that I can improve my own being and I think I can safely say that managing 'Ego' is one of the most difficult things I've ever come across. It's really a tricky thing to do, for me anyway. The book seems to state that you can't get to the peak of your personal growth until you can control your ego and look at the big picture instead of just what your aspirations are for your own world. I know that I'm not there yet, and I find it difficult to imagine a future me that can REALLY look at the big picture, I have so many material dreams that I want to accomplish and my ego tells me that before I can even think about what goes on outside of my own world that I need to get to these first, but maybe what I need to be aware of is that unless I work harder on the 'big picture' then I won't have the capability to progress to these material dreams of buying things like super-cars and penthouse apartments.
The book also shows that a balanced ego is a good thing, which is good news .....


A bit over four months ago I decided (or thought) that I was ready to move my business onto the next big step of it's progression. I can't bear to go over the small details and plans but after a hundred issues, complications, location changes and sleepless nights I've submitted my offer to take over the place that I want to open up my first (emphasis on the first) music venue.
I've spent the last three days waiting to find out whether I'm going to get the place, upping bids and pacing so much that I've probably had more exercise than I had all of last year.
I really had to do something to take my mind off of things.
In times like this I always turn back to something that's kept me going in the past, music.
And what better way to do that than to create a list of your top-10 all-time songs ...
For some people this might not take so long, or maybe they wouldn't take it as seriously as I did.
It took a lot of narrowing down but here are my all time top-10,
(If you're reading this feel free to add your own, I'd love to hear them whatever you're into)


1. God Only Knows - The Beach Boys
2. Trouble - Cat Stevens
3. My Back Pages - Byrds (Dylan Cover)
4. Hallelujah - Rufus Wainright (Cohen Cover)
5. Flesh & Blood - Johnny Cash
6. You Get What You Give - New Radicals
7. Tiny Dancer - Elton John
8. Atlantic City - Bruce Springsteen
9. New York Groove - Kiss (cover)
10. Drift Away - Dobie Gray




Maybe next time I'll think about film ...