JustFAMOUS ENOUGHNot to be NOTICED CHAPTER DOWNLOAD Foreword Just famous enough not to be noticed Be yourself, everyone else is already taken. – Oscar Wilde PreviewDownload Chapter 1 1947 – 1968 Becoming Me | The Bank | Franquin I am not a perfectionist. My Mother was though. I’ve run away to join a different circus. I nearly didn’t make it through childhood and adolescence and really joined a ‘circus’ of sorts. PreviewDownload Chapter 2 1968 – 1975 Cinema | Opera | Returning to School | Teaching If at first you don’t succeed, try management. This worked for me and fulfilled my need to achieve across an unusual spectrum of challenges. PreviewDownload Chapter 3 1975 – 1980 Marriage | New career(s) Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment. I knew how to choose well in life and succeed in career paths avoided by others. PreviewDownload Chapter 4 1980 – 1985 Worker Co-ops | Nimrod | Morris West Character is what you are. Reputation is what people think you are. Recognition for not being afraid of taking on challenges refused by others, and succeeding came from the oddest of places and persons. PreviewDownload Chapter 5 1985 – 1988 The Arts Scene | NSW Bicentenary | In God’s Name Succeed in spite of management. But, take care for senior management will lust after one’s success for themselves. PreviewDownload Chapter 6 1989 – 1991 Sabbatical | 60 Minutes | State Transit Novus ordo seculorum ~ a new order has begun. About time for a radical new beginning. PreviewDownload Chapter 7 1991 – 1998 Environment | Advisory Risks must be taken because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing. A stunningly interesting, and successful period of achievement despite interference. PreviewDownload Chapter 8 1998 – 2000 Best Western | Crash and Burn If you can stay calm, while all around you is chaos, then you probably haven’t completely understood the seriousness of the situation. Creativity, innovation and achieving the near-impossible takes its toll. PreviewDownload Chapter 9 2000 – 2005 Phoenix Rising | Mentoring Benjamin Franklin said that society is divided into three classes; those that are immovable, those that are moveable and those that move. I move and always have done. PreviewDownload Chapter 10 2005 – 2013 Noosa | Semi Retirement, the Joke Never fritter away a good crisis. Told to slow down; told to take it easy; told to toe the line… I told them, NO! PreviewDownload Chapter 11 2013 – 2015 New challenges Sometimes I pretend to be normal but it gets boring so I go back to being me and of course I talk to myself because sometimes I need expert advice. Believing in the capacity and ability of ones-self can change everything. PreviewDownload Postscript 2015 – 2020 Postscript If the future is what you fear, dream not of today but look forward to the undiscovered, the yet to be. The body slows unfairly but the mind refuses to give way to mediocracy. PreviewDownload Photos Photos Download