Creative Updates – July

Time is a currency that seems to being spent before I know it at the moment. There’s so much going on in my life right now and it’s all rather very exciting! Although I can’t disclose details of what I’m working on yet, I can tell you it’s gonna be awesome!

This week marks, my last week at work, quite fittingly this blog post is written on Independance day! I’ve been in my current employment for a tad over 3 years now and have worked on some pretty interesting projects as well as been a major light in the web team. I’ve learned a lot, met some fantastic people and had some good laughs, but there comes a time when you see that life is too short to stagnate and progression must be kept on track.

When I began this current period of employment, I was unemployed, living with my parents and had to start again and I had to pick myself up from some pretty devestating circumstances, in which I didn’t expect to see much past my 30th birthday, but I kept going regardless. I’m confident that I had the resolve to do it once and so I shall keep on doing it, rising to fall, knowing the next rise will be higher, knowing each kick in the nards only serves to make me fight back harder. Plus I’m nearly 30 now and far from being depressed, even reaching 30 years old is for me a major two finger salute to cancer. So have it! Let’s get on with the show, just in case.

“Sucess [it was once said] is the ability to go from one failure to another without loosing enthusiasim”. — Winston Churchill

The past three years have been awesome, forgeting the bad and focusing on the good, I honestly can say it has been the ride of my life, but I’m exhusted. The train though kinda got derailed in 2009, when things just became a stressball and I have become ill as a result. It’s not just myself going through hard times, many of us will be facing our own tough challenges right now at ths start of this decade, we’ll be rethinking and taking stock during this post downturn phase. It’s something I’m used to doing. What do we want to be when the good times return? I’m greatful that through the downturn we had enough stability to press on, a little bit sheltered but none the less aware and so I could emerge as a butterfly, gaining my own home and increasingly building my life, following my bliss. Though it was a suprise that most of my best progressions came outside of my working environment, but every day builds the future you want and things certainly went back to my roots and that’s where the real foundations of my future are.

“The future hasn’t been written yet, so make it a good one!” — E.L.B

That progression doesn’t end here, far from it, although it will be tough, I have enough resources, friends and contacts here where I’m settled to push forward with the next chapter of my life, which hopefully will see me gain the experience I need to manage my own business. I couldn’t choose a better place for it, you’d be suprised at how well connected Walsall is in the information age, loads of talented people live or work here or very close to here and we’re all cracking on with some pretty amazing things.

So rather than be fearful that I’m leaping into the unknown here, I’m pretty darn excited and itching to get on with it! A flood of emotions, a mixture of life admin and hard graft to secure the future but what I’m fighting for is happiness and your own happiness is priceless and worth more than anything else. My train is departing this station, which was a half way house get fed and watered on the route to someplace even better, I’ve also picked up passengers on the way and there’s plenty more room to jump on board this flying train!

I think that’s enough of the Back to The Future in-jokes!
I promise I’ll be back on the blog in August with some actual creative updates.

Posted on Sunday, July 4th, 2010