Hey everyone!

This is an exercise in creative blogging that, The GazzMan, AKA Gary Simpson, has introduced to us over in the Marketing With Alex private forum.  It all started with Gary writing 25 things about himself, then he picked 5 random people who he wanted to know more about. And each person who takes up the challenge is to then pick another 5 people out of our fellow students.

I’ve actually been tagged by 3 people, Roger Edwards, Mick Fallon, and Steve Wakefield. Anyway I’ve finally got around to listing my 25 things, so here goes.

1. Paul was born and still lives in Manchester, UK.

2. Paul loves animals, and especially cats.

3. Paul feels strongly about cruelty to animals, seeing and hearing about it upsets and angers him.

4. Paul was once pinned up against a fence by an Alsatian dog, while it overtowered him and repeatedly barked at him. This happened when he was about 4 or 5 years old. His mum managed to distract the dog eventually and he was able to get away unharmed.

5. After the Alsatian incident, Paul developed a fear of dogs. He later got over it, by facing his fear and doing his work experience at a dog boarding kennel, where he was locked in with a variety of different dogs while he cleaned/mucked them out.

6. When Paul was about 13 years old, he and his cousin once collected a small amount of frog spawn from a local pond. He then kept it in a big bucket in his back garden, and studied them as they developed from tadpoles into frogs. He then set them free once they had grown arms and legs, near a local garden that had a pond.

7. Paul loves watching fireworks displays.

8. Paul has had 2 pet cats in his life, and 2 gold fish.

9. On January 14th 2009, Paul’s latest pet cat, Blackie, died aged 14. Paul buried him the next day.

10. Both of Paul’s cats lived to the age of 14.

11. This is the longest period of time that Paul hasn’t had a pet cat. He currently doesn’t have any pets, but daily feeds and looks out for a local cat, that has been practically abandoned by it’s owners.

12. Paul passed his driving test first time.

13. Paul suffers from an generalized anxiety disorder, if you don’t know what an anxiety disorder is you can find out more about it HERE.

14. Paul finds his anxiety problem embarrassing, but does his best to get on with living as normal a life as possible.

15. Paul would like to travel more.

16. Paul has never been abroad.

17. Paul pushed himself this year, and got his first ever video online.

18. Being on the Alex Jeffreys Coaching has had a big effect on Paul, and his friends and family have noticed how upbeat and positive he is now.

19. Paul plans to continue pushing himself out of his comfort zones in his business, and also with his anxiety problem.

20. Paul has added to his plan, a side project in a different niche than Internet Marketing. He plans to keep a journal of his day to day life, and how he copes with anxiety, and then create a product to help others with the same problem.

21. Paul has always been fascinated by clouds, here is a picture Paul took a couple of years ago, of a sunset at the front of his house.

22. Paul likes watching film/movies, and his favourite type of movies are Action, horror, thrillers, and gangster type movie.

23. Paul loves music, and likes to listen to many different genres.

24. Paul is somewhat addicted to playing on games consoles.

25. Paul is interested in doing voluntary work for charity, and his community.

I could go on further but it’s now time to find 5 people who haven’t been tagged and made their list yet. By the time this post goes live their names will be listed below.

I would like to tag:

Alexis Salaam

Ian Buchanan

Julie Newman

Barbara Harvey

Jeanette Fitzgerald

But will you take up the challenge?

Paul.