16-OCT & 17-OCT - Wed & Thu - As one door closes, another opens

These last two days have seen these two lads take decisive actions on closing an old chapter and laying the foundation stone of what hopefully will become a bright new future. We often go through life keeping others happy but by doing so denying ourselves our rightful rewards. Is it right? Is it wrong? Hard to answer, too many implications to consider (hurt, disappointments, anger, frustration, arguments). They say “time will tell” and indeed it usually does. These two lads have managed to finally close a chapter which has been slowing them down from day one. Invariably closing something is “easier said than done”! We’ve proven to each other that we still have our excellent managerial and organisational skills. Who else but two veterans of customer service and management would have the skills of knowing how to organise to meet all requirements for a legal identification at the local Australian consulate, needing an original document from Australia!? Who else would have the know-how of organising the issuing of said original document in Australia on a Thursday, to have it forwarded on a Friday, for receipt at our location in Bali by Monday (hopefully)? “Yes we can” as President Obama said! Having scooted in and out of traffic and having taken bypass roads that only our trusty mobile phone/GPS would know, the last two days have seen us spending more time on our scooter than at our villa! Being “generation X” means we are well capable of managing more than one task at a time, efficiently and effectively, hence as we were dealing with the closure of this old chapter, we were simultaneously working on laying the foundations of a brand new adventure in our lives! It is a project we have been working on ever since arriving here in Bali and don’t want to disclose to much as of yet, bar saying that as one starts asking the right questions and digging at the right places, suddenly doors have opened we didn’t exist. Life has presented us with an amazing opportunity and we are going to grab it with both hands and our eyes wide open! Yes mums, we’ve done a spread sheet to work out all the nitty gritty financials and the result was: “Full steam ahead!”