About
Last year when I started this site I had grand plans for it to host all manner of content produced by, of course, me. I’m interested in a great number of activities and hobbies and I felt that I’d be able to be a mass producer of consumer-grade information on all these activities and hobbies, until two major realisations hit home:
- There are a lot of other people in the world far better at my hobbies than I am; and,
- I have four children.
Now, I’m not about to let item 1 in that list deter me from offering up my input – in my view, there is always going to be someone better than you at something, but it doesn’t make them necessarily more valuable than you – but item 2 is nearly a showstopper. Attempting to work on projects, let alone blog about them, when there are four children – my children – in the house.
It was easy last year to begin to post about project management, or getting things done, or any of a number of other productivity issues, because that’s what I was focussing on at the time. Honestly, there are enough other productivity blogs out there that I don’t need to try to reinvent the wheel when I don’t have the time to do it. Instead, I’m now taking a different approach to my site, one that I think is more in tune with what I really envisioned, rather than what I initially attempted.
I am a lot of things:
- I am a father of four.
- I am a husband.
- I am a pet owner.
- I am an amateur photographer.
- I am an amateur videography.
- I am an IT professional.
- I am a volunteer coach for sports teams.
- I am a volunteer coach for school extracurricular teams.
- I am a son, a brother, cousin, nephew, and uncle.
In short, I am a lot of things. Each of those items, and the others I haven’t listed, requires special skills, knowledge, and know-how. This isn’t anything special: people like me have been performing these things for decades and centuries, but what I do have is a desire to share this knowledge.
It is my belief that each and every day brings with it new opportunities to learn and expand one’s horizons: the trick is in knowing where to look for it. I like to ask my children what they learned at school today, and I try not to take “I don’t know” or “nothing” for an answer. This is a question I realised I can begin to ask myself, too: What did I learn today? I like to take photographs. In fact, I’m currently embarking on a quest to take at least one photo a day for the calendar year. Certainly there are things to be learned with this. I want to write a novel – more things to learn. I go to work, I organise my time, my projects, and raise four children. All of these and more are wonderful learning opportunities.
Quite often I learn that there is not enough time in the day to perform all the tasks I want. Other days I learn that despite all my best intentions, I still procrastinate. Hopefully soon I will learn how to beat that.
This blog is a blog dedicated to presenting all those things I do, all those things I learn, and all those things I want to share. I may not be an expert in all my fields, but I sure do have plenty of life experience to share.