I am soooo sorry I did not write Friday Light last week – a heinous crime that indeed warrants a grovelling apology presented on a bright red velvet cushion.

Anyway last Friday I was a victim of all the things I advise that we should not do. Like give myself too much work to do, not sleeping enough, not going to the gym or not eating what I want and so forth! But wooaah, what a week, the kids were all ill, my wife was sick too and I was the only one who was able to go out and be comfortably at least two miles from the nearest toilet.

I have to tell you that my philosophy on illness (as so many of us seem to be ill this month), is that I do not inhabit my body for the use of illness. Everyone was ill in my family. I was determined not to be ill, so I made a decision that at all costs, I wouldn’t go down with the bug. Actually I never get ill. I just wrote it there and then and this affirmation, I say, is there in writing; another action perhaps that will keep me healthy. I always tell people I never get ill and guess what…. ?

The day I won Henley (Coxed fours, Britannia Challenge Cup), honestly, the hour after the evening medal ceremony, I went down with a fever. A very nasty one too. I willed myself not to get glandular fever and I didn’t contract it until the hour after the event. The only mistake I made, was that I said to myself, ‘it’s Ok, I can be ill after the rowing regatta.’ Guess what? I was!

So if we are able to will non illness can we will the opposite, which is a better state being and lots of other convenient goodies. For example, what if instead of willing away the things I didn’t want (like a tummy bug), I willed the things that I do want with such similar verve and determination? I admit I did put far more cerebral effort into the act of not getting ill than I do when I buy a lottery ticket.

When I buy a ticket I think to myself, ‘aah well worth a go, you never know.’ I never really do much more than buy the ticket and shove it in the wallet. Actually, 12 years ago I wrote a whole book about the lottery. It’s called ‘Please God I Want to Win The Lottery’, still on Amazon and I used the name Clayton Caine. But that was a very weird book! Our first novels always are. I like to experiment with willing things. Like the chocolate conference we just had on Monday this week for the chocolate industry.
I really knew it could be done and we all willed it all to happen. I knew we should all meet and the result was wonderful. We will (I used the word ‘will’) have 250 people coming next year!

It’s a long subject. I have now completed another book and this will be for sale in Jan 13 for all – you if you dare! It’s called The Midwife Man, about how I delivered a baby and willed it to live… the cord was around the neck and it’s a good example of perhaps , just perhaps sometimes we can control what we ‘will’. I have to say that I have had my fair share of disasters that I definitely didn’t want to happen so there is so much more learning to do. But then that’s why I am here, to learn.

Right gotta go, this weekend I am getting some snow tyres put on my car so I am ready to travel to the iSM show in Germany (big confectionery show for my non confectionery readers) in the snow and, actually I quite like the idea of buzzing about on the snow. Snow tyres, a very NON – British thing to do. I think that’s why I am so happy. I don’t like to be too English or I would be too miserable.

Have a willingly good weekend. Try it, will it, make it, wish it, dream it, imagine it, AND THEN MY SWEETS – HAVE IT !

Fondest to you all and thank you to my new 300 readers for joining us all last week.

Let’s be in your will-dest dreams.
Angus

agkennedy@kennedys.co.uk

My six year old son says to his brother on the way to school this morning: “Don’t worry Leon, if your voice breaks, I can get you a new one for Christmas…. Erm, Dad where do I get a voice from?” I saw him in my rear view mirror with both arms hugging his green fluffy turtle on its way to the school’s fluffy-toy picnic. Humphrey, as “turtle” is called, was wearing his raincoat and socks nicked from our new baby, to keep his green feet warm.

This is life, I thought, in my car, in this moment, this is what makes me tick and gives me the will to live (apart, of course, writing to you) my most wonderful readers.

To be honest, I don’t need to write anything else do I, after that? In fact I could just leave it at that, sign out, and we could go on, back to what we were doing. What were we doing? Reading reports perhaps, opening the gas bills, or other such activities that infest our most valuable cerebral processing time. Happiness is the moment. It just exists and in that time I looked into the mirror at my kids I realised how easy it is to be happy. I just forget to see that I just have to be in the moment with them.

But we are presented with so many wonderful things every day. Especially when it comes to children, but we fail to see anything, we fail much of the time to just ‘be’ happy…. Too much time trying to make a decision, right?

Well this crossed my mind again during the early hours of the morning. What is a decision? Let’s say we are about to make an important decision and we have two possibilities and we can’t make up our minds. One of them is the right one, or is it? Do they affect each other? Giving yourself a choice is the perfect way to not make it as we have, in effect, provided an option that is not right. We can’t see the wrong one as we can’t see the right? If we have to make a decision, we are in the state of being ‘undecided’ as we are actually contemplating something that is wrong in the ‘act’. So therefore we are focusing 50% of the wrong and the right. A brilliant way to mess up a decision! By donating attention to the wrong, it prevents us from seeing the right.

We are taught to make decisions at school, all the time: answer A or B? Well in my opinion, there is no such a thing as a decision, it’s a state of the mind. If you have a decision to make then it means you haven’t got a clue as you consider the wrong choice with equal verve as the right one. So I am going to try, over the next few weeks, along with changing my alarm clock to digital so I can read the numbers and many other crazy things I am doing now; I am going to not make decisions, better still not give them to myself. I am just going to do what feels right and not to contemplate what doesn’t. It’s the contemplation of the wrong that makes the right wrong, always.

That’s the problem, lead us not to temptation. What did that mean? We think its sex and silly things like that. Actually could it be so simple as to not to listen to the ego. The ego is the temptation. We want to sit by a tree, write a poem, sin, anything, but the ego kicks in and says no you don’t. ‘Consider this.. ahaa gotcha!’ We know what’s right for us, but we made the decision to make a decision and got on the tube and went to work and therefore were miserable for the rest of the day.

It seems to me that decisions make things worse. Simply doing what feels right without there being an A or B is a lot easier. I know we have to have a job and all that… or do we?

Anyway I write this now. There is no question it’s not done. I have to write this. I have to be here for my readers on Friday. I can’t let you down. My ego would have said ‘hell that’s a lot of money, effort and time to write this and you could sell something instead, therefore presenting me with a decision with a potentially miserable outcome. Luckily I am learning to be a free spirit.

So now I make a final decision this Friday, join me. Don’t make them any more! The answer is always in what you feel is right. Don’t add crap to confuse the obvious.

Incidentally I wrote this with no re-reading. It was there waiting, no time, no thought, no decision; no misery! I can’t wait till next Friday to write. It’s energising to feel so liberated with the rather novel feeling of being more of me than ever. So here’s to being more of you. There is no choice in the end to be!

OK now where do I get a new voice from, as my son so eloquently asked for… of course, Eureka, I have now found it… and I THANK YOU with all my heart for helping me use my “voice.”

So here’s to you this Friday and deciding what’s Light!

PS Any of you guys wish to sponsor my page? Can’t imagine anyone would be brave enough. But I have asked now and I now know it will happen. There’s no decision!

Angus Kennedy
agkennedy@kennedys.co.uk

We study history but not the future. Is that because we think that the future does not exist? Most of us base plans on what has happened like, OK we had four boys then surely the next baby will be a girl! Everything we seem to look at, from money to what we will eat, learn and enjoy, appears to be based on past experiences and not what future experiences could be. Our entire legal system is based on what court cases have been won or lost. Even when we talk to each other, we often ask how was your day. You may say indeed that the future experience doesn’t exist so we can’t base our lives this way; so are you then saying that you have no future?

No I am uncomfortable with this past business and I like to imagine my present, as a state of the mind that focuses on what I wish to happen in future. I don’t think it’s a good idea to say ‘oh well the last product I launched was no good and therefore this next one will follow suit’. Or that I ran several conferences and none of them made any money, so there’s no point. Even better, I have been turned down by an agent or publisher so its likely that it wont ever happen, sod it its tough and so on. If I say it won’t – it wont! If I say its tough it is.

How much present, past or future do you think of? Let’s say that 50% of the stuff I think of is events from my past. Then what hope does my future hold when I focus on bad events or non-happenings of the past. I recreate my past again and again and again. I think we term this stuck in a rut, BUT WE CREATED IT! I cant change my past so quit thinking of it! Say I imagine 65% of my life-to-be in the future, hmmm, better. Is it more likely to work out better than studying history for the rest of my life and examining what went wrong in a world war or something?

I think now, this minute, I am not thinking about my past at all. I can’t when I write. I am (and this is the difference) excited about my future. I don’t fear or worry about the things that could go wrong any more as a result of the past.

I guess this a bit of an art, but actually I have noticed a siesmic shift in who I am since I stopped thinking about things of the past that are of no use to me. But we are so convinced the past exists that we forget that the future does too; poor future, give her a chance. They both exist for us in ‘all that we actually experience’. I only experience the present, therefore its up to me what I invite into it; my dreams for the future, or my lost hopes based on the past.

I think its working. I read less news, watch less TV, I no longer have an iphone, I switch the radio off on the way to work and as a result, I can give myself things to think about that Angus Kennedy needs to do to become himself and no one else. Most of the time I am presented with things that everyone else wants me to think of and if I think of it more, (worse still) people wish me to think about what crap has happened to them in the past. I don’t actually want to know, thank you. I want to know what you and I can do for our future, we are one. That’s much more powerful.

What about the great things that COULD HAPPEN? What about the time when we are all clever and hospitable to each other. What about the time when money no longer exists and that schools no longer play a part in what we need to learn. What about the time coming when all Humans as a race achieve. These things, we are all capable of thinking, but never bother because THEY all want us to think of crap from the past. Is it any wonder we say ‘there’no future”? Well  why be surprised,  all when we don’t try to think of one, it  therefore cant exist.

The future may be lighter than you can think.

Happy Fridays
I am yours in the future
Angus
Angus Kennedy
agkennedy@kennedys.co.uk

OK get this – Are you sitting down comfortably, let me begin! I woke up at 2.42 am… it seems to be the time that I receive these odd thoughts. I couldn’t sleep much after I woke up with it. In a way it’s rather beautiful. Let’s change the words a little – like this:  Most of us are being humans; few are being human(e). If we were indeed humane beings, then certainly it’s quite clear, that we have a long way to go. You could even call the process of getting there, if you so wanted, The Human Race! And then I realised that is exactly what the human race is. It’s not a noun, it’s a description of the struggle of the race that we are in- to be what we should be.

Let’s take it one more little step. If we change the punctuation only so slightly so that race is a verb and not a noun and read it as follows: The human, race. Racing to towards what, exactly?

Well of course the answer is, to be humane. We are all in the race to be humane beings but are settling with being human. That indeed was why I woke up. What a sad life I live eh! Thinking all night when every one else sleeps so that I can ponder of the purpose of what humans are meant to do!

And heavens above! What a task it is that we present ourselves with. We are dealing with the very obliterating the shroud of false ambition of what we race towards. In my opinion most people curiously would prefer to race after their own backsides than to change the course of the human purpose for the better.

We all actually think that we are human but this is not so as we also think that we are above other animals, Earth and other humans, especially. We believe there is no life other than ours, we believe we are the most intelligent beings and the most important. We think the best approach to learning (I laugh when I write this), is make our children learn antiquated crap, parrot style in past-their-sell-by-date schools. 

We could continue, some men think they are above woman and women above men and the most entertaining of them all is that we honestly believe that we are the most evolved beings in the Universe when we are clearly the most unevolved. Do we not stop to think that we used to use that 90% of our brains? But we became so much up our own backsides that to be the perfect materialist you probably only require a mere 3 %. You don’t need much brains to be a fool.

We used to be better that this, don’t ask me how, I know, I do. We used to be humane, but on many occasions we failed. The Earth is far older than we believe but we lost the brain usage to actually work anything out.

All is not lost, we have sex, chocolate, and we actually have freedom of choice. We are free to think. That’s the way out-  through thought. Thought is the key to the future so here’s to being humane, by thinking how to do it first  and here’s to not excepting a state of bland being with no cause.

Phew that was it! I feel so much better, lighter, almost. I thank you for reading. I can feel your thoughts, thank you for lifting me. You thoughts lift me before I write. You can actually feel other peoples thought. Go on grab another 1% and join me.
Fondest
Angus
agkennedy@kennedys.co.uk

Opportunity is built on chance; it’s a result of events and meetings that we often have no idea are about to happen to us. It’s the chance meeting that makes things happen, not the planned one. Other people make us into what we want to be, we can’t do it alone and that is why I launched a chocolate Industry Network in London on 26th November, where 100 of us in the sector will all be meeting in one month’s time. We have no idea exactly who we will meet! Beautiful isn’t it!

But we do all have intention to meet, which is why we are coming and that is why it will work. I am a believer now in the unexpected and to confirm my belief in the process, we now have five remaining tickets for the Kennedy’s Chocolate Network for senior representatives within the international chocolate industry. Those five tickets will go randomly to the five people that just happen to respond to this Friday light today. The people they then will meet will be another rather wonderful chance.

Perhaps the last five tickets that are offered today create a meeting for the next big thing in chocolate? Who knows? That is what I love about conferencing, for me too, it’s the most exciting project I have worked on to date in my career. It was always my intention to create something a little special. Heavens… this event has gone far beyond my dreams in what I thought was ever possible. But that is what dreams are for, to travel beyond. Dreams are a mere stepping-stone on the way the great opportunities in life. Life beyond dreams exists.

You see, the whole Network I created is now televised and I shall now be appearing live on Sky news live along with what I can only describe as the most welcome media frenzy. I didn’t actually plan that. My creator within me is. I made it happen with thought and intention. And you know what? I am very much enjoying this unusual and most welcome experience of using the power of my mind. Especially since I am writing a book now on chocolate and confectionery. So who knows? Again what the future may hold? But hold something for us all – it does. Just keep lifting the stones and that is success- not stopping.

So you five that are out there, that are going to come to join us for the most exciting network than any industry anywhere has to offer, email me now! However, you must be heavily involved in the industry or be like me a realist and cynic and a dreamer! My email address is agkennedy@kennedys.co.uk and we shall do our best to ask you all along and accommodate you.

Now then listen up, if someone would be kind enough to step forward and sponsor my network of business leaders then I can of course ask everyone! But we have strictly had to keep the numbers down because of the costs. So I ask openly if someone would like to take part in the biggest media coup in the whole industry and sponsor the network. In all my career I have never seen such a line up of press, from just about every line up of UK Tabloid to no less than three TV and news networks. So please step forward and be knighted.

This is a testimony that what we create is an intention (in the first instance) of the mind. The mind is the amazing machinery that produces the gold, the thoughts, and the thoughts create our reality. I can’t wait to see who responds to this now, as I know it’s not chance, it’s meant to be, because chance made it so. Welcome our new sponsor out there (you will know who you are). I guarantee that I will place you in front of a media line up that has never been seen in the confectionery industry ever before.

Take a chance and do it!

Happy Halloween