Two out of three aint bad

Published 23 March 2009, Posted in Northland / 1 Comment

A story by Ken Williams

After head injury, fortunately, I lost a lot of my inhibitions. 

Life is short, so just live it – the philosophy ‘if you don’t ask you don’t get’ is a good one, and has made an amazing four months for me.

I always wanted a house before I was 30, but always had an excuse not to get one.  So, in October, realising I had only five months to achieve my goal,  set out to have a sale and purchase agreement before Christmas.  I saw an amazing house, the agent said, “they will never come down to your budget”.  You don’t ask you don’t get – so I put in a cheeky offer, and at 3:30pm on Christmas Eve, I had a contract!

So, what is next on my list? 

Since my injury, I have got into photography, and always wanted to spend a day with Emirates Team New Zealand.  So, I sent an email directly to Team NZ, and within 24 hours I had a reply from Grant Dalton inviting me to the base. 

WOW!  I flew down the next day, had a tour of the base, met many of the crew members, and spent the day with their photographer Chris Cameron.  Grant and Chris are nice guys, and they worked hard to make a day I would never forget.  It is really surreal being in the base, everything is just huge!  I then spent the morning on the water with Chris photographing the boats as they trained, literally within metres of them at times.

It was an amazing experience – people have to win a draw against 10000 other people to do this sort of thing, and I just asked!

The third item on the list.  I purchased a rose for a certain somebody on Valentines Day, to no avail.  Oh well, you can’t win them all, but two out of three aint bad!

So, put the, I can’t and the excuses away, and just try something.  Get cheeky, ask (in the nicest way possible) and you never know what you will get. 

Put the I CAN in to life, every day.  I did, and I have done two things I never achieved before my injury.  Next is a half marathon, the Tongariro crossing, and the Franz Josef Glacier.  All after renovating my house of course.

Hey, if I achieve two out of three of those things it will be an amazing year.