New Start

Daily writing 2026.

New start. 10am

Here I commit to writing for 10 minutes a day, every day. Whether or not I feel like it, whether or not I have anything valuable to say, and whether or not I'm busy. I’m always busy so that excuse is lame. I can always find 10 minutes. So here goes, 10 minutes daily writing.

Clarity of thought.

The purpose for my new writing habit is to clarify my thinking. Nothing clears your head like writing things down. So, with that in mind, here are the things that are floating around in my head at the moment. I’ll try not to make this a to do list, more like a brain dump, with good punctuation.

The highest priority is the school applications; we have to do those this weekend. Nervous about choices, but we have to try and hope for the best.

Second on my list is deciding what to pursue as my next money making venture. I have Inframe360 ready to go, the only thing holding me back is time, and maybe a little self belief. Look, you're doing it as part of your day job, believe in yourself, you can do it. The only way to improve is by doing the thing. Next steps are either:

• bark.com (they’ve offered me double credits!!) Fastest way to land a client

• Cold outreach (slow and time consuming, but FREE!!)

• Viewber (need to take a good selection of shots to be approved)

This seems the most ready to go idea I have

My other ideas, floating around are:

• Writing. That’s it. I don’t have any clear strategy here. I can follow Mark Thompson's plan and create digital products and publish articles to send to it. But that feels like pissing in the wind. I think a potentially better idea is to publish some content on my own blog. That leads me to another dilemma. Do I post on inframe360.com’s blog or do I publish elsewhere myfluidmind.com.. Just writing this out I know the answer.

3 things I have to juggle in my own manifesting generator type way are:(a manifesting genrator is a Human Deisgn term btw, if you're not fmailiar... more on that at some point)

Inframe360 - Business - money - financial stability

Myfluidmind.com - Creative outlet - can talk about anything - focus on business/personal development/creativity

Music - finish my track and launch it on tik tok (also called fluidmind - there's a theme emerging here. link to website!

2nd writing stint (same day @6pm)

Well that first one was quite lucrative, I ended up creating a new blog off the back of it.

So here we are. Now the blank page beckons me, taunts me.. Have I got the chops?

I’ve never followed the easy route, or the path that seemed the most sensible. I’ve jumped around a lot. Tried so many different things, with mixed success. Now, I’m at the end of my fiftieth year on this earth, and I think I’ve finally come to terms with the fact that I'm not like ‘most’ people. When I say ’most’ I mean, the average Joe. The one who’s happy with his lot: a mid level management job that pays enough to survive, but not enough to thrive. A two week holiday, and if he’s lucky a little bonus at the end of the year. Shit, that’s actually my life..

So with this post I’m putting a stake in the ground, I don't accept this life, in fact I laugh in the face of it. I will, no - I must do better! Be better, be more! More than I can envisage right now, with my limited thinking and socially conditioned mindset, that says (to us all) “Stay in your lane, who are you to do ….. (insert your goal here). I can, and you can, be (almost) anything you want! (Imagine dramatic background music and a room of people, with everyone on their feet in rapturous applause!)

My upcoming projects:

• This blog, which is my creative writing outlet, my little corner of the web where I can write about pretty much anything I like - we’ll see where this leads.

• My book: Ghosts of the Tide. (In the final editing/addition phase) I’m at 72K words but some work is still required.

• My music - after a long break, I’ve started to create electronic dance music again, often late into the night when I really should be sleeping. I have a couple of tracks now that are almost done. I’ll be discussing further here, as and when.

• My new business - yes, on top of this I’m launching a side business. In my day job I’m Head of Property for a landlord /developer. I started cdoing the floor plans and photos as part of the job and realised I was pretty good at it, so Inframe360 was born. Check it out!

That seems like a lot I know, and many of you will be saying, I should stop and focus on one thing. And you’re probably right. Problem is, I can’t.. it’s just how I’m wired. And that, my friends, is the end of this post.

I hope you’ll be back sometime.