2016: Personal lessons learned

2016: Personal lessons learned
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2016 in summary

2016 has been a shocker for me. It started off when my workplace decided to restructure and my position was among those that vanished. So I left at the end of January only be told three working days later that I needed an eye operation to stop me losing my sight. The best (sarcasm) thing about that was that it would take around 12 to 18 months to recover. Nicole was not working, hadn’t for seven years, and completely lacked confidence in herself to even try. So we become a home without an income. Rhiannon started High School and within a couple of months was the object of some rather nasty bullying. The year progressed with my eyes being sensitive and painful and appearing not to be healing too well. I even had a crisis when the rejection began and my vision temporarily looked like opening your eyes a couple of metres underwater in the ocean. Seriously. All dark and green with floating things going back and forth. That is now better.

But finance remains at the top of my fears. In May I used my funds and time to try to start a consulting business (mentioned in my previous post). Alas it did not fly.

9 Comments


  1. Sorry about the bad things! But at least you managed to reflect on the events and figure out what could be done to make things better.
    Have a happy 2017 ))


    1. We live and learn. 🙂 You have a wonderful 2017 too, my friend 🙂


    1. Thanks Ken. You too, may it be grand 🙂


  3. Reinvention of self is a difficult task but you are a man of great resolve and if you wish to achieve change then you will indeed make it happen. However, never forget the old saying,’Dare to be Different!.’

    I’m looking forward to reading your 2017 success stories.


    1. True, though ‘Dare to be different’ has been my motto through my career to date and has mostly been received negatively whenever promotion is on the table. I hope I have some 2017 success stories too 🙂 I wish you a great new year too, with many a travellers tale and more excellent pics 🙂


  4. Hope things look up in 2017. You’ve learnt some tough lessons – thanks for sharing your newfound wisdom – too few people are humble enough to learn.


  5. Thanks Life is a continuous journey of learning

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