Just famous enough not to be noticed

Be yourself, everyone else is already taken.

– Oscar Wilde

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

1989 – 1991

Sabbatical | 60 Minutes | State Transit

Novus ordo seculorum ~ a new order has begun.

About time for a radical new beginning.

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.

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.

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.

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!

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.

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.

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