Today, Monday 31st May 2007, I walked round the neighbourhood. I met J and JJ her dog.

J was feeling terribly dizzy and did not understand why no one could explain what was causing this.

I could partly empathize with her as I had experienced Labrynthitis myself earlier this year when I felt inexplicably dizzy and sick. But at least in my case, the doctors had recognised what was wrong.

I think some doctors give up too easily in the face of an inexplicable illness especially in the elderly. It is assumed that the elderly will experience all kinds of vague problems which are insoluble.

In the end too many of us accept our problems whether they are health or other problems as insoluble. But we are the only ones who really care if we are in pain or in debt and need to take as much action as we can to solve our own problems.

This may of course mean pestering others like the doctors to deal properly with the problems we are faced with.

Today Wednesday May 23rd 2007 I walked round the neighbourhood at about 5 p.m. to prepare myself to watch Liverpool play AC Milan in the Champions League Final.

Liverpool lost and I realized yet again that it is a waste of time relying on sports teams to make you happy. You have no real control over how they play but you do have control over yourself. Rely on yourself to make yourself happy.

What did make me happy today was a great article on the power of pushups. These are one of the best strength exercises for your entire upper body in existence.

You don’t need anywhere special to do them. You can do them on the floor in your own bedroom or even on the ground when you are out for a walk.

There was a soldier in the army who let himself go and became unfit and overweight by eating junk food and not exercising enough. He suddenly realised that he would be seeing his wife in a month’s time and she might not recognise the man she had married!

He used just one exercise to get himself back in shape – pushups. He performed these all day long whenever he had the chance. The change was remarkable and he was soon back to his old fit self.

Never underestimate the power of pushups.

If you find them difficult at first do them with your knees on the ground and then try doing them with your knees off the ground.

If even that is too much lean against a wall or cupboard at an angle of about 6o degrees and do them from there until you can do the more advanced versions.

Today, Monday May 14th 2007, I walked round the local neighbourhood in interval style i.e. I walked fast until I broke into a sweat and then walked slowly. After this I repeated the process again and again.

I was inspired to do this by a full length mirror in my hotel room at the weekend. I was horrified to see how much weight I had put on. I had already had advance warning last Thursday when the ladder to the attic collapsed under my weight.

I was saved from injury by grabbing and holding on the rungs higher up the ladder. My ‘gorilla training’ (hanging from a bar) might well have helped me to hold on and then land on my feet on the floor below!

Interval training is believed to help you lose fat much faster than just jogging or walking at a steady pace. You could for example sprint for 30 seconds and then jog or walk slowly for a minute. Repeat for about ten minutes.

This does not lose fat while you are doing the intervals but it increases your metabolic rate afterwards.

I spent last weekend – Friday, Saturday and Sunday – in Bournemouth at Andrew Reynolds Entrepreneurs’ Bootcamp.

It was an inspiring and information packed seminar which motivated me and a friend to keep trying to achieve the dream of all internet entrepreneurs – to become millionaires at least.

It was great to be at the seaside again after years of not seeing the sea. What a fascinating sight!

Today is the May 7th 2007 bank holiday. There is some rain and wind but it is quite warm. If you like swimming in the rain, you could even enjoy a day on the beach.

I walked round the neighbourhood at about noon. The walk both today and yesterday seemed to go much more swiftly than my last walk.

I don’t even need to leave my house to see some wildlife. A fox walked within feet of my window this morning. At first I thought it was our neighbour’s dog Sam who likes to crap on our back lawn.

There was, in fact, some crap, on the front lawn nicely balanced on a tuft of grass so that I could easily chuck it into the flower bed. Maybe it had been dropped by a bird.

Talking of crap, I read a great article by John Reese which made the point that as competition hots up on the internet crappy products and websites will cease to make money.

People who wish to make money need to concentrate on serving their public rather than selling to them. Big content websites full of valuable free as well as paid information will bring success to their creators.

As I walked up Marlings Park Avenue, a lady driving a car waved her right hand from her left to her right across her windscreen.

I thought she was waving at me so I waved back but then realised that I did not know her and she must have just been illustrating a point to her passenger!

Today, Friday 4th May 2007, I walked out at about 10 p.m. round the local neighbourhood.

The walk seemed a real chore, tonight. I was thorougly bored but kept telling myself to embrace the boredom to escape the greater boredom of falling ill and losing mobility.

This helped to a certain extent but it seemed a long time before I reached home again. I will now enjoy the benefits of accepting the boredom as I will sleep and think better and will feel better.

A few people were out and about in the dark. A young woman passed on the other side of Kevington Drive looking somewhat nervous.

A young man was talking into his mobile further down the Drive and another young man passed me in Marlings Park Avenue.

Further up the Avenue two joggers went past on the other side of the road from me. After jogging on for about fifty yards one of them started to yell like a banshee into the night sky.

Quiet makes some people nervous or maybe he just wanted to make other people nervous or to take note of his presence! He just confirmed the fact that we live in a slightly crazed world.

I walked the same walk at the same time as yesterday and it was the same weather – sunny and breezy – and I met the same friend Steve!

I hung from a tree with one arm as I talked to him emulating the gorillas in the hope that I would become as strong as a gorilla.

Steve did not look too embarrassed to be talking to me in this pose and he generously warned me that one branch looked a little weak.

I discussed a module that I had just read from a course by Andrew Reynolds. Andrew pointed out that many people are put off from starting a business by the thought of all the boring paper work you have to do before you set up your business.

He suggested focusing on the rewards of your business rather than the boring side of it.

You would never get away on holiday if you thought of the packing, the queues, the risks of travel or the possible sharks in the water.

Instead focus on the great time you will have and the beautiful people you will meet!

Today, Tuesday, I took the long neighbourhood walk early this afternoon.

There was a warm sun and a cool breeze. There were three notices up. One was for a missing black cat called Lucy who was 16 years old.

The other was for a King Charles Cavalier black and tan puppy that was only 16 weeks old. The owners believed that the cat had been stolen by a white van driver in February 2007.

The third notice was a blank sheet of paper. Maybe it was symbolic of the fact that we all have lost something and can fill in the blanks ourselves.

Have we lost our dreams or given up on our goals?

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