The Meditations
Cracking my Operating System Os’
My view on the world has been turned on its head. For the most part purpose, people and passion took the crown, these became the four pillars everything revolved around, this regulated my temperament for the last 2–3 years.
I admired the best authors and philosophers and marketing and comms geniuses. Because of this the word “Meraki” became synonymous with me all through my early 20’s.
During the month of May I found myself smack, bang! in the middle with 21 days to go before falling under the “late 20’s” bunch, fuck! Fortunately, since then, I have had an epiphany, today unlike the passionate 22yr old Regal or whatever I called myself back then would pass a coffee date with the best writer in the world to sit down and learn from the bestselling author in the world.

I understand any craft without a buying consumer base is merely a form of expression, if you design and create clothing garments without a market — what exactly are you? an artist, right?
I can write, very well I think but I’ve always judged how good my writing is by the traction each article received. I stopped last year after peaking at the most read trends piece on the day and later getting 1K hits on a LinkedIn article.
I knew then as I do now that I was onto something, the difference is today I realize that recognition alone doesn’t remunerate, I love craft, I also love money, which is far from being a bad thing.

I’ve been awfully quiet this year across all channels, I know I needed time to think and I have.
With less than a month to go before the year comes to an end and me officially closing the chapter on my early 20’s, if getting to this point was the reason for all the chaos and uncertainty, I am pleased with the course things are taking!
