'Social' Intelligence: Enjoy Yourself and Tie a Knot

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First things first; I should like to apologise for not posting a genuine entry yesterday and having to make you wait impatiently for it.

Also, apologies to those who could not sleep because of all of the excitement (who are, in all honesty, less than or equal to zero).

The mainstream reason behind my not doing an article yesterday was that I physically did not have the time to do it as I was otherwise engaged and my daily schedule was somewhat hectic.

In fact, I had to take a couple pretty important life decisions yesterday, including deciding whether to finish my Wills and Probate Chapter or make a day- trip to the Westfield Shopping Centre to which I had never been before.

As I was staying with a friend of mine who, unbelievably so, was not very interested in the magical world of Wills and Probate, I decided to make a compromise and treat myself to a trip to the ‘mall’.

To be honest, on my way there, I felt exactly like I normally did when I thought I was doing something ‘unproductive’; my conscience was eating me up.

All I could think about was the fact that I had to finish the chapter my tomorrow morning, prepare for the LPC seminars, do the LEASE case summaries, finalise a draft contract AND, on top of that, write up my daily article.

And at that point I asked myself:

Why on Earth was I getting negative vibes and thoughts when thinking about all of the above (INCLUDING writing an article up!); it didn’t make any sense mainly because I loved doing all of those?

It then dawned on me that I might have (I never thought I’d say that) overworked myself lately and I needed a break.

As you can probably imagine, taking breaks is definitely not something that I am normally comfortable with; there was, in fact, a Mortal Kombat- like tournament between the conscience and common sense in my mind.

For the first time in ages, the latter managed to win; and, funnily enough, that didn’t worry me in 

the slightest.

I have to say that my trip to Westfield was incredible; I visited ALL of the suit shops there were and found myself at least about twenty self- gifts for my birthday.

Furthermore, they let me try on my most favourite watch in the world- the Hublot Omega Big Bang.

As much as I loved it, however, I decided to get it on my next trip there because I didn’t have £ 23,000 on me at the time.

At the end of the day, I went back home, poured myself a glass of gin, caught up with my friends and decided that it would be a much better idea to wake up at 5am and do my work in the morning.

 I then realised how awesome it sometimes was to enjoy yourself; especially if you ended up learning how to tie a new tie- knot (as above).

Try it.