Ben Nuttall | Blog: A Day In The Life...

I'm back from the longest period of absence in the history of this blog. I've been busy doing the following:

- Preparing for exams
- Thinking
- Working on my Euphony business

Unfortunately training doesn't come into the list, seeing as I've hardly had time for it lately. I do my best to get out and train whenever I can, but with my final exams coming up, it's been hard to find time. I had my last exam earlier this week, immediately after which, I went to give blood (my former IT teacher expressed her surprise that I'd have any left after the exam period) and went to buy a book to add to my ever-growing 'to read' pile.

I've been thinking a lot about everything lately. Getting involved with the Euphony business has put me in a place where I'm spending time with people from a whole range of backgrounds, and similarly to the parkour community, this is a great way of getting everyone's ideas together and sharing thoughts with strangers. There's a great emphasis on personal development, which, I feel in a very general sense, is basically my life purpose. Everyone I'm involved with has their own attitude to life and to business, and feel that listening to people and really thinking about what they are talking about can be a great way of self-improvement. I've been attending various conferences, seminars and training sessions with a range of people in the business, and I've been given some great talks, great advice and really encouraging and inspiring sessions.

The reason for this post (other than to get back into the swing of things) was meant to be about wikipedia, but it seems to have taken a minor segment of the post, but I'm not changing the title now, I like it, it sounds cool! Anyway, I was doing some random browsing earlier and found that on the Lisses article on wikipedia gives a source for its information, the source being a blog post entitled Trip To Lisses 2007 written by Ben Nuttall. That's me.



I thought it was pretty cool how someone had come across my site in their research and thought that it was a reasonable source of information. It's not like my site is the sole source of information about lisses and parkour, so it's not like I could have written any old rubbish and someone would have used it as the truth. It's also weird how I've had 3 people contact me in the last 2 weeks, from 2 different continents, all asking me how to get from Paris to Lisses, which hotel to stay in and for general information about Lisses. I've hardly had anyone ask me about that until the other week, and then I get two more within a matter of days. Weird. I wrote an extensive reply and sent it to the other two guys, I think I'll upload it as a web page and stick it in the site as a parkour resource.

I have lots planned for this Summer. I go on holiday to the Spanish Pyrenees in about a month, which I'm really looking forward to. But while I'm here at home (until I move out in September for uni), I have plenty of tasks to be getting on with, including redesigning this site completely. Hopefully I'll have a new site up and running by the end of Summer. As well as changing the layout of the site, I intend to revolutionise the content by taking a leaf out of my friend Joe's book and try to post at least once a week. So far I've been sticking to about one a month on average, only posting when something amazing happens, but wouldn't it be nice if I could have something to write about every week? I'll be keeping posts much shorter and much more to-the-point in the hope that more people will actually read the posts. Please give feedback in comment or email form, I want to know what you think of the site and I want to know when you read a post. Be back soon.