Is it really possible to make a chocolate cake live on air, in a microwave, in 5 minutes, in a mug.
We challenged Ali from Liddiards, as local chef extraordinaire to try and do it.
Have a listen to the audio!
This morning I gave up smoking. Again.
And I dared 2 people to do the challenge with me. On air. In public. So we did.
UPDATE
Day 2 (Tuesday)
I have not smoked at all, and my mood is quite good!
Sue started this morning, and got some patches ready to go for it.
Kathleen had 3 yesterday, and has support from her doctor.
We are all doing great- all of us. Tha plan is to do it for a month and have a bit of a party.
I’m all for that.
Kathleen volunteered and so did Sue. Both are long term smokers. And both want to give up.
UPDATE
I decided on the radio show this morning to only focus on the positive on the radio show, at www.radiojackie.com. That meant NO negative speaking or focussing on credit crunches or Swine Flu (have they thought of oinkment for that? Sorry!)
So I asked people to call in and tell us what they appreciated about their lives, and who was in them, little or big, it didn’t matter really, not at all.
And I have to say the response was fabulous, we had people ringing in who had had a frightening diagnoses, but with a steely determination to get well (and it was treatable), we had someone who was about to go on a new wonderdrug that gave her hope again.
And mothers appreciating their daughters, and workers appreciating their bosses (it does happen, really!), and someone else appreciating the blossom and hives by the side of the road, which they hadn’t had time to see before because they were so rushed.
The lady who had a final job interview for a job she really wanted, and had plucked up the courage to go back into the workplace after a break and a series of difficult challenges in her life….
And it felt great. And I had not even given any thought to anything negative in the 3 hours I did the show, and that felt amazing.
PLURK
Some of the more fun people we spoke to talked of the line blurring between work and play. Plurk, you see. To get a bit philosophical, I do not believe we are on this planet to suffer a difficult existence and be miserable, I prefer to believe in the power of dreams, and particularly doing what we love for a living. Why not?
This lady seems to have mastered it in abundance.
http://www.pamperedchef.biz/sarahmorris
There you go Sarah, I promised you a plug on my blog, what a great business you are in. This lady came on the phone and said “I LOVE my job”. And you could hear the enthusiasm in her voice, it could not be faked if she tried. She meant it.
She loves to meet people, food and more, and this job allows all of that. Nice for those of us who are harried to be pampered as well I would imagine.
Jeanne (the girl I am seeing) talk a lot about our dreams as well. Hers are to travel, and to be an interior designer, and to sell fashion and items of interest from round the world. What if she coul find clients interested in her designs, which would fund the travel, which would enable her to serve her clients better, which would result in more funds, which would result in more time to travel, which would……. you see the positive loop here.
What simple, fun step could you take towards a dream you have?
Here’s another lady whos enthusiasm was infectious…
http://www.jojingles.com/twickenham/
She works with kids, and she says she loves it, they are always happy, and focussed on having fun in the moment, not worried about the past or future.
I think that’s pretty good advice from our younger generation.Be here now. And enjoy it.
Worry or fun? No brainer isn’t it. And since when did worry or fear make anything better anyway?
One more, Phil one of our regular listeners in Molesey (known as the Molesey ranter!), served 30 years in the police force, then made the jump to being self employed, with a chauffer company. And business is very good. That bears repeating.
Business is very good.
Where did you hear that in mainstream media?
I also want to introduce a cyber friend of mine called Buz McGuire http://www.viralhappiness.com/. This man I have never met, but have spoken to online, and have a “cyber friendship” with him, he is a great guy. I know he is running for local office as well in the States, I have to say I would be delighted if there were more leaders like Buz in town. Good luck with the election Buz, and keep up the viral happiness. Buz “thought” hs way out of depression in a week, without prescription drugs, thus spawned the idea of viral happiness. I find him inspiring, so do have a look at his site if you have a moment.
I think the more ideas of positivity, and success and solution rather than problem focus we have the better, and the better the world will be. I stand by that, and this is the main ethos of this blog. I cannot wait to see where this journey takes me, but I know it’s gonna feel good.
Do you have an inspiring story, or something you’d like to share? Have you overcome something or made a dream come true? Do you have a dream job or business? Please share it here, and feel free to include a website address. I hope you get more business out of it, and more visitors to your site.s
I want to do a series of podcasts (like radio but recorded) on stuff like this, success stories and principles, so if you would like to be interviewed by me, just get in touch. Free plug on this blog in it for you.
I look forward to your comments.
Neil
I like the blogging life, I mean, just chatting about life and stuff, and listening to Jack Humphrey from Blog Success, interview Heather Armstrong, and I am learning more and more, and I realise it is not so different to radio in the sense of relateability,people want to know about your life, what is going on, even day to day stuff.
How deep do you let them in? Good question- I guess what we are comfortable with really, but some bloggers go deep, really deep, perhaps this conterbalances some of the shallowness we see every day- dunno.
Bet cyberstalking wont be long either.
By the way, having a stalker is not fun, I had one once, when I was working at Capital- her name was Gema, and yes, that is spelled correctly, and she spelled my name Nill.
“Dear Nill”
I am moving closer to be with you, our baby is due in March.
Wha…. I was drunk, it meant nothing. Seriously though, I had never met her- I know I am impressive girls, but that would be a feat!
So the letters continued until I had built up a collection of about 30, and I decided to get my secretary to do something about it. Well ok, it was my mum, but she didn’t know that.
So, I got one of my promotional photocards, and got my mum to type on the back something along the lines of… “Neil does not answer any of his own mail”, which of course was not true, but it did the trick.
For a week.
Then the letters started again, declaring undying love for me, and our immaculately concieved baby.
Then she turned up at a nightclub gig I was doing.
It could have been something out of a Steven King movie. Nightclub. Rainy night. She was standing outside in the rain, looking bedraggled and miserable, staring.
So, like a fool, I said to the doorman, who I got on really well with- Let her in.
Mistake.
I was there with my girlfriend at the time, and she came up to her at her table, slammed her drink down on the table and said “You’re with my boyfriend you bitch!”
AND I GOT TOLD OFF BY MY GIRLFRIEND! GET THAT! WOMEN!
Oh, and stalkers never look like hot models. Ever. Not ever. Shame, but just the way it is. Still you cant have it all.
But anyway, being paid for chatting about life, and being able to spend more time with my favourite people, that’s a price worth paying for the odd stalker.
And by the way Gema, I’m just not into you. Sorry.
Lots of Love
Nill
I love the idea of Twitter, and this year, I intend to use it more, I pose a question…. and a challenge. I want to this year create a radio show that is syndicated and Podcasted, and uplifts millions- nothing too ambitious then! My subjects are Law of Attraction and Clearing, in fact now I am just editing an Interview with Amy Scott Grant, a master belief cleanser that I met on Pat O Bryan’s Portable Empire University, very cool…
Oh, subjects Law of Attraction, funny morning radio (breakfast show if you are reading in the UK) and Morning Drive if you are reading in the USA, also, Internet Marketing, with my partner Frank Garon, already a very high profile internet marketer, in fact we have our own show…
www.yourinternetprofitsradioshow.com
So, thems the 3 subjects. Now, are you in marketing, and if I came to you with ideas like those- seedling ideas, what would you do, how would you help me create that and get it out there… How could I cleverly blend wacky morning radio with Internet Marketing, with Law of Attraction and Joyful Dreams coming true, encouraging and uplifting people…
Ideas below please, and the best one gets to be on the Internet Marketing Show with me and Frank..which will be a rather nice plug for you and your wares…
I look forward to recieving your comments. Let’s interact…
OK, and welcome tomy blog, it is now officially 2009, and a brand new year…. as an aside, I was talking to an Indian friend the other day, and he told me that they use a different calender, and they are technically 500 years ahead of us… he thought that was very funny. I didn’t. (Joke) I did, and I found it fascinating- almost like simultaneous worlds side by side.
Anyway, a bit of a deep way to start, I am not intending on getting woo woo here, let’s talk about my New Years Resolutions, which I am actually keeping as best that I can. That said, I read an article that made a very good point, that there is nothing particularly sacrosanct about the year 2009, or any New Year… we can make resolutions any time we want to, and make changes whenever we feel like it, as soon as our next breath if we want.
So,what are my NYR’ions?
Have you heard of John Gray, perhaps not, if not you probably have heard of Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus… yes, him, well he is also a medical researcher and has come up with a Mars Venus diet, that gets our brain chemistry right, you know, our neurotransmitters, dopamine, serotonin and the like, giving more mental focus and clarity, and also as a rather nice by-product- healing our bodies, and losing the excess weight, at a rate of a pound a day. Yes a pound a day- safely. But because it is a healing protocol, if you are underweight (which I am most certsinly not), you would GAIN weight. Clever eh?
And you know what, it is EASY, that said there are 2 fasting days, the first of which is tomorrow, so I will let you know…. and I am going skating with Ashlea (my daughter and her friend)- and the last time we went we indulged in obscene amount of Kentucky Fried Chicken, and no doubt they will want feeding… Oh man, I will let you know if I succoumb to temptation… No fillet burger for me thanks, I am going to indulge in my Lithuim Orotate supplement….
I will keep you updated…. and soon I will be Svelte– Svelte I say.
The only other thing with this diet and exercise regime is an exercise called bounce and shake, which looks like being on a trampoline, without being on one, which stimulates the lymph system.. which clears the toxins out of the body…. including the acids, caused by stress, and poor food and other things as well.
On the first day of it, I itched in funny places, on the second day, My wrists hurt- who would have thought I would have had acids in my wrists. Who knew?
Will keep you uptated on my acid removal.