It has been about a month since I have written, put “pen to paper” or “fingers to keyboard”. It is quite easy how things can slip. “It’s Ok, can let it slide this week, I’ll pick it up next week.” Next thing you know it’s been over a month.
Of course this analogy can be made to anything: trying to keep fit, trying to kick a bad habit etc.
What to do? Just accept the situation and accept defeat? This is probably the easiest way, the path of least resistance.
“Ah well I gave it a go, but clearly I can’t stick to it, time to give up.”
Or you could choose the second, harder option. Yes, accept you slipped a bit, and just start again. This is so much more difficult. You have to re-start rebuilding the mental energy, get over that very stubborn inertia.
But you can go back to basics, start small and stay consistent.
So this is me, writing again, keeping it short and simple.
I do want to share a few things that have been on my mind.
Work
Work has kept me occupied. Not just doing the work, but also trying to drum up a pipeline.
I’ve been able to reflect that since January I’ve been involved in a whole range of new work. In summary:
- Complex Stamp Duty applications
- Hong Kong redomiciliation
- Service agreements drafting
- Advising a few local businesses on equity investments into their companies.
Reading
This month I’ve finished two books. George R.R. Martin’s novella, A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms. This makes a great bit of Game of Thrones sidequest.
I have also just finished reading John LeFevre’s (aka the GS Elevator Twitter Guy) Straight to Hell. This is a wild read about what bankers got up to in Hong Kong in the early 2000s. Both pretty easy reads.
Nostalgia
I’ve recently watched the Michael movie and the Hulk Hogan documentary series on Netflix. I grew up to both of these flawed superstars in the 1990s. I do get that both the movie and the documentary were pretty biased and both people were very flawed. But to me in the 1990s they were the best, and I fell for the storyline. Also, I thought that the wrestling in the WWE (or at that time called the WWF) was actually real! Both were a nostalgic trip down memory lane.
Summing up
Good to be writing again.