I like this video.

Life has changed a fair bit since I last posted. As many of you know, the change revolves around my work-life – I’ve left The Japanese Company and joined White Rabbit Press.

It’s a joy to work for a company that operates based on common sense and trust, a company that has loyal customers who absolutely love the products and service (they really do, never seen anything like it before!). A company where I am responsible for setting my own goals and using my skills to reach those goals, and where neither a business suit nor a monkey suit are required.

It’s the first time I can remember myself wanting to tell people about the company that I work for, and the first time I’ve wanted to carry on working once home (because work is enjoyable and gives me a sense of accomplishment). Having a job that has meaning has removed the incessecant nag that I’ve had for the past year, that being ‘what is the meaning of life?’

It’s all quite novel really.

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In other news, WordPress.com kindly decided to have their first outage in about 18 months yesterday afternoon when I was running a WordPress workshop. Talk about timing! Partly due to this things did not go as well as I had hoped, but there were other factors that I knew beforehand may have been problematic (and were), but which I chose to ignore. Lesson: Act in accordance with gut instinct.

I’ve been saying ‘No’ more, and I intend to carry on saying no for a while; this has resulted in a significant drop in stress levels. Life is generally more relaxed. I cycle to work, I cycle to friend’s houses, I cycle home.

I’ve cut right back on Twittering, partly because I’m no longer frustrated in my day job. And for the time being I don’t feel the need to blog either. Actually, writing this is proving to be quite time consuming, as I’m so satisfied with life that I feel no burning desire to get anything off my chest.

Perhaps I’ll give it a rest for a while.

Hmm.

Now I think I’ll go to bed and read a book 🙂