Archive - September, 2009

Waiting is part of everything

September 30, 2009 0 Comments


Never let it be said that I am good at waiting. Yet waiting seems to an important part of any entrepreneurial process. The question is not will you wait but how you will wait? I pretty much hate waiting and I think I probably always will.

I guess you can look at waiting in one of two ways… an unimaginable waste of time or a crucial time with a definite and higher purpose. Mostly lately I’ve just been incredibly frustrated and unproductive.

But waiting could be seen to be a great time to relax, to recharge your batteries, to learn, to strategize, to upskill or to plan.

Seven good things about making mistakes

September 29, 2009 1 Comment


They’re humbling experience that remind you that you are just like everybody else.

Mistakes provide you with the greatest learning experiences of your life.

They give you the opportunity the apologize and make a stronger friend.

They cause you to question what is really important to you.

Mistakes often provide you with an opportunity to start over.

Mistakes often lead to a creative breakthrough.

The trapped chook

September 28, 2009 0 Comments


Strangest thing happened in my rural West Auckland retreat. Last night when it came to putting all the chooks back in the hen house one of the hens was missing… we called and called but no chook could be found; well not until this morning.

The missing hen must have been perching on top of the brazier on the back lawn; only to have it flip over and somehow(?) trap itself in an upside down cage on the back lawn.

Here’s the crazy thing, you would think that the hen would have been dying to get out of that cage, it had been trapped there all night, without her friends and without any food? But when we removed the brazier rather than run to freedom it just stood there, fixed on the spot.

The hen had become so used to it’s cage, to it’s confinement that it had no ability to see the open space in front of it. All the barriers to freedom had been removed except the ones that were inside her head

German girl on the run…

September 27, 2009 2 Comments


I dedicate todays blog to a 17-year-old German Girl (a regular reader) who has left the troubles of home and is on the run through Western Europe…

Run girl run
you got to get away
you couldn’t stay
run girl run

But don’t run away
not forever
for there ain’t
no place to stop
no place to stay
if you always keep moving
you’ll always be running away.

Stop when it feels right
stop and look up
the night is black
but the stars are bright.

Little German girl
ours is a mixed up world,
but you’re gonna to be all right
Cause you’re like a fiery little star
On the darkest on nights.

 

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7 ways to be more productive

September 26, 2009 1 Comment


Sleep less but sleep twice a day; Winston Churchill used to take an afternoon nap so he could work late into the night and claimed to fit one and a half days into one.

Delegation & synergy; getting other people to do the work means that together you can do so much more.

Take at least one more day off a week; rest will make you more productive.

Exercise and eat well; keep high glycemic index foods (sweets, breads, pastas, fast food) to a minimum & you will increase your energy and endurance.

Have a clean & organized environment: you won’t spend so much time looking for stuff.

Have more than one computer; If you work with computers and spend a lot of time WAITING for visual effects to be rendered, get another computer and you may double your productivity.

Plan your day the night before and you will wake up knowing exact what you are going to do.

P:S: Please add any other suggestions

Live autobiography

September 26, 2009 1 Comment


Some of you may be aware that I think of this blog as a live autobiography. It’s designed to be a daily account of my journey in filmmaking. This is the 232nd blog in a row and obviously not all of them (or many of them lately) have been about my film journey.

That is because this particular phase of the journey is particular boring and involves a lot of waiting; these are the unglamorous and tedious moments of life that naturally get left out of any decent autobiography. Unfortunately being live, you my reader are not afforded this luxury.

I’m pretty sure these times exist for a reason, maybe learning, maybe a chance to recharge the batteries or develop your character. Crucial but not really very spectacular.

Be like Christian Cullen & dare to imagine

September 24, 2009 1 Comment


13 years ago, Christian Cullen began playing rugby for the Allblacks (New Zealand’s rugby team); with the ball in his hands Cullen was incredibly fast, supernaturally strong and almost impossible to tackle but those weren’t the qualities that made him great… It was the look in his eye when he got the ball that made him great.

When Cullen ran the length of the field to score those match winning tries he wasn’t looking at the players approaching him, the obstacles in his path, the moment he got the ball he was focussed on his goal, he was looking at the try line. In a weird way it seemed like in his imagination he had already scored, the rest of him was just working out how.

It takes more than a little courage and a lot of self belief to imagine the finish line at the start of the race; but this sense of destiny is what sustains you and propels you on any difficult journey. If you don’t have the finish line in mind why would you ever consider running a marathon?

I have been sitting here today imagining the future, imagining success, what looks like, what it feels like, what it sounds like; it feels really good to take your mind off the obstacles.

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