50 Things You Didn’t Know about Me! (Part 1)

50 Things You Didn’t Know about Me! (Numbers 1-10)

  1. I work all hours drawing motivational cartoons – because I absolutely love what I do! (Verging on a workaholic!)
  2. I love to keep fit, even at 55 I still play 5-a-side football/soccer once a week and squash 2-3 times a week.
  3. I have a black Labrador ‘Jet’ that I walk three times a day – he gives me a break from working!
  4. I’ve drawn a doggy cartoon strip ‘SCRAGGS’ for 15 years – or 105 doggy ones!
  5. I’m always interested in doing private commissions and corporate ones Well to be honest I’m always interested in any commission, like I said I love what I do.
  6. I’m so grateful for having the opportunity to draw cartoons for a living.
  7. I have a wife of nearly 25 years and two daughters Samantha(20) and Steffanie(17)
  8. I turned freelance back in 1982 – all my friends said I wouldn’t make it as a cartoonist and that I should get a REAL job! (Well I proved them all wrong with shear determination and perseverance – and here I am today to tell the tale.)
  9. I drive a five year old BMW X3 – had it from new.
  10. I live in a six bedroom house – four years ago it was a four bed one but I extended over the garage and built two extra rooms to house my cartoon studio.(Used to have a studio in the town centre Chesterfield – but the rent rates and everything else kept going up and up. Stay tuned! More to follow over the next week.

Limiting Beliefs!

Understanding beliefs
The intention of the limiting belief
Think of a time when you have wanted to do something and then countered it with the thought, ‘I can’t because I’m…’ or ‘Yes, but….’ and talked yourself out of it. We’re often afraid to start something for fear of not being good enough, or fearing failure. The thoughts that warn us of impending potential failure can see us walk away from opportunities. This is the result of our subconscious trying to protect us from failing. This is often termed ‘protecting your comfort zone.’

This is another extract and cartoon I drew for Tracy Plaice’s Face The Music and WIN! book.