extraordinaryblog

I have spent 40 years of my life on this earth being unremarkeably average, interspersed with brief detours where I thought about crazy stuff, paused and then actually did something out of my comfort zone.

Not any more…

You see, hitting the big four zero made me start to think.  To start considering just how much, or how little time I have left in this life.  And it made me come to the realisation that many people get at this time, they need to do something about it.

Call it a mid-life crisis if you will, but I don’t believe it is that.  I have arrived at a place where the need to really live life to the full, to achieve many things I have been putting off has met with a lot more of the potential to do something about things, combined with my developing confidence that I don’t care so much what other people think.

I have decided that I will not apologise any more for who I am or what I want to achieve.  I want to be extraordinary.  To try new things, to challenge myself and other people.  I want to make sure that at the end of my next 40 years I can look back and go “wow”.

Lest you think that this is just about money, buying a flash car and jetting off around the world with an 18 year old beach volley player, let me put you straight.  It’s not.  Money is not the ultimate aim of my life or aquiring stuff.  I’ve learn’t that lesson a long time ago.  Sure I want to have enough, enough money, enough fun, but I also want to love and to put back, to change lives of others.

In short, this is where the byline of my new blog comes it, to sum up what I want to achieve here.  It’s something that fans of Stephen Covey may be familiar with, but in my thoughts and notes about my new life and blog, it kept coming back to me – THIS is what I want to achieve:-

To live, love and leave a legacy.

This blog is my vehicle to plan, achieve and share my journey along this new path I have committed to.  I sincerely hope that you enjoy and find value in it.  If you don’t, or even if you do, please feel free to join me, comment, bookmark and share anything you find here.  Journeys are always more fun with friends.

Till next time

Alastair